The Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2009 is scheduled for Senate debate on October 26. The bill would change the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005 (BCII Act). This would affect the building and construction industry鈥檚 watchdog, the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).
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SYDNEY 鈥 NSW Greens MLC John Kaye addressed a morning rally outside the Financial Review Energy Conference on October 23.
A wave of deep moral revulsion swept through everyone in this country with a social conscience after Labor PM Kevin Rudd uttered that ugly sentence: 鈥淭his government makes no apology for a hard-line approach to people smuggling and border security.鈥
It is a pattern that is being repeated over and over worldwide. Security agencies conduct secret surveillance of suspects, record their conversations, then convict them under anti-terrorism laws so broad that expressions of opinion and radical talk are sufficient to define a terrorist.
The Australian government is getting desperate and showing its true colours. Not long after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd personally intervened to turn away a boat of 260 Tamil refugees in international waters, a second boat 鈥 also carrying refugees from Sri Lanka 鈥 sent out a distress signal off the coast of Sumatra.
There are three main problems with the nuclear 鈥渟olution鈥 to climate change 鈥 it is a blunt instrument, a dangerous one, and it is unnecessary.
The Australian Greens announced on October 23 that high profile economist and environmentalist Clive Hamilton would stand for the party in the upcoming by-election for the federal seat of Higgins in Victoria.
A motion calling for a halt to the Queensland ALP government鈥檚 plans to privatise public rail, port, road and forestry assets was passed with support of 70% of delegates at the ALP鈥檚 Far Northern regional conference on October 18.
On October 10, a hole was burnt in the doormat of Gunns Limited chairperson, John Gay. Some crude graffiti was also drawn on his fence.
鈥淎 revolution is sweeping Latin America, and Venezuela is at the centre of the process that is radically changing the social order there鈥, Jim McIlroy told a forum on October 22.
Community and conservation groups fighting the controversial Mary River Traveston Crossing Dam proposal, near Gympie, have recently held a series of campaign strategy meetings. This followed the Queensland coordinator general鈥檚 October 6 approval of the proposal, which attached 1200 conditions to the dam project.
Let鈥檚 start by establishing some common ground between myself and anti-nuclear campaigners like Jim Green. Green and I both understand the seriousness of the climate crisis and the imperative for a rapid transformation of our energy system to technologies that emit no carbon when generating power.
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