The number of 鈥淗igh Net Worth Individuals鈥 (HNWIs) in Australia 鈥 those with more than US$1 million in investable assets, excluding the family home 鈥 soared to 173,600 last year. This, according to the latest World Wealth Report, was an increase of 34.4% on the year before.
The June 30 Sunshine Coast Daily said: 鈥淲hat's more impressive is Australia's ranking in the global population of HNWIs. Out of 71 countries, Australia has the 10th biggest population of HNWIs in the world, in front of Brazil and just behind that millionaire's paradise of Switzerland.鈥
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25 intrepid activists left on July 2 for Alice Springs as part of a Justice Ride to show solidarity with Aboriginal people fighting against the NT intervention. They will take part in the Defending Indigenous Rights: Land Law Culture convergence in Alice Springs from July 6 to 9.
Just after becoming prime minister, Julia Gillard told media on June 24 she could understand 鈥渢he anxiety and indeed fears that Australians have when they see [refugee] boats鈥. She did not cite evidence for this claim. She said that, as PM, she would explain to the Australian people 鈥渨hat we are doing to manage our borders and what we are doing to manage asylum seeker flows鈥.
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) began industrial action on June 30 to pressure management to reach agreement with the union on a range of claims. They want reinstatement of job security protections for contract research staff; improved conditions for casual and fixed-term staff; Indigenous employment targets and an increase in paid parental leave from 26 to 36 weeks.
A Short Border Handbook
By Gazmend Kapllani
Portobello Books 2009
159 pages
Review by Alex Miller
This book, which the author describes as 鈥減art autobiography, part fiction鈥, is hard to assess. Each chapter is divided into two parts. The first part tells the story of a man (presumably Kapllani himself) who crosses into Greece from Albania when the border between those two countries opened in 1991. The second part consists of 鈥減hilosophical鈥 ruminations on issues raised by the story of the first part.
On July 2, 100 people rallied at St Georges Terrace in response to the Western Australian Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)鈥檚 decision not to lay criminal charges against the two guards involved in the death of Mr Ward.
The emergency action was called by the Deaths in Custody Watch Committee and was addressed by Marianne Mackay and Marc Newhouse from DICWC.
Some wore T-shirts that read: 鈥淲hat Eddie Mabo was to Native Title, let Mr Ward be to the justice system.鈥
Pip Hinman is running in the Australian federal election 2010 for the lower house seat of Grayndler.
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