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Small victory for G20 protesters

A county court judge reduced the sentences of four G20 protesters on appeal on August 28. The four, along with other activists, received severe penalties last April in relation to altercations with police at a protest against the G20 meeting held in Melbourne in November 2006.

Communities demand action on dying Murray

Among the crowd of some 2000 protesters in front of South Australia鈥檚 Parliament House on August 1, eco-activists in jeans and windcheaters mingled with people in Akubra hats and Driza-Bone jackets. Mentions of Labor Party Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, federal water minister Penny Wong and South Australian Premier Mike Rann drew sustained jeers.

The making of "the news"

Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion & Propaganda in the Global Media
By Nick Davies
Chatto & Windus, 2008
408 pages, $54.95 (hb)

Business threatens capital flight

The Business Council of Australia (BCA) 鈥 representative of the 100 largest companies in Australia 鈥 has threatened that its members will be 鈥渇orced鈥 to relocate offshore if the federal government鈥檚 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is implemented.

Brisbane rallies to save Mary River

A busload of 聯Save the Mary River聰 activists from Brisbane will join an expected 1000-plus protesters to form a human chain at the location of the planned Traveston Dam on the Mary River on September 6. The rally will be part of GetUp聮s climate torch relay, in support of actions to address climate change.

Peru: Indigenous rebellion in the Amazon

Peruvian President Alan Garcia suffered a major political setback on August 22 after Congress voted 66-29 in favour of repealing controversial presidential decrees that would have facilitated the privatisation of communal indigenous lands.

'Historic' Ballarat agreement boosts NTEU strategy

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has finalised the first agreement in a new round of collective bargaining in universities. The University of Ballarat agreement gives a 10.9% pay increase over 15 months.

Write on: Letters to the editor

Educational feudalism Julia Gillard sure wants to take the neoliberal stick to public education and parents. Firstly, impoverished parents who find it difficult to send their children to school every day will become even more impoverished by

Call for moratorium on water licenses

The NSW Greens have called for moratorium on the issuing of water licenses in the Murray-Darling Basin until a thorough independent study of the cumulative impact of mining on water resources in the basin has been made.

Uruguay: Discontent grows against government

On August 20, Uruguay聮s sole union confederation, the Inter-union Plenary of Workers鈥揘ational Convention of Workers (PIT-CNT), organised its first 24-hour general strike since the centre-left President Tabare Vasquez, from the Frente Amplio (FA), was elected in 2005.

Fuel costs cause more hunger in the bush

聯People are eating mainly bread, flour, milk powder and sugar, and deriving a huge proportion of their energy from these foods that cost the least but are going to fill people up and divert hunger聰, Julie Brimblecombe told ABC Radio National聮s The World Today on August 25.

Greens WA candidate rejects 'growth at all costs'

Toni Warden, the Greens WA candidate for Kalamunda in the September 6 Western Australian elections, is a founding member of the Stop the Eastern Terminal Substation Action Group (SETS) and a member of the Hills Climate Action Group. She told 91自拍论坛 Weekly that the main issues in the election are the climate emergency and social inequities exacerbated by WA聮s resources boom.