Emissions rise under carbon price
Labor proposes a carbon price plan to 鈥渢ackle climate change鈥 and create what it calls a 鈥渃lean energy future鈥 by an implied decrease in greenhouse gas pollution.
However the Australian government-endorsed Treasury modelling report, 鈥淪trong growth, low pollution鈥, shows that under the carbon price plan, Australia鈥檚 domestic greenhouse gas pollution will increase to 621 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent in 2020, bigger than now or in 2000.
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Rodney Augustine is from the Nyulnyu and Jabirrjabirr people. He is a spokesperson for the group and is a member of the 鈥淜eep the Kimberley鈥 group, both based in Melbourne.
He will speak at the activist conference in Melbourne, over September 30 to October 3.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will take place in Perth at the end of next month. It is a gathering of the government leaders of the 54 Commonwealth countries.
The Commonwealth today has direct links to the earlier structures of the British Empire in which colonialists of a previous era used to boast that the 鈥渟un never sets鈥 on the places where they were killing and oppressing people.
Australian Solicitor-General Stephen Gageler, who defended the government鈥檚 Malaysia solution in the High Court, confirmed the court鈥檚 decision 鈥渃ast doubt鈥 on all offshore processing, immigration minister Chris Bowen said on September 4.
Nicole Watson, a research fellow at the University of Technology Sydney鈥檚 , gave the address below at the Sydney launch of Walk With Us: Aboriginal Elders Call Out to Australian People to Walk with them in their Quest for Justice at Gleebooks, Sydney, on September 1.
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At the outset I would like to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the land, the Gadigal people.
Fundamentalist Christian street preachers faced stiff opposition from activists who rallied against their public sermons in Adelaide鈥檚 Rundle Mall on September 2.
Members of the right-wing religious group found themselves surrounded by a large crowd of activists who rallied for more than five hours.
The rally鈥檚 theme was 鈥渓ove not hate鈥.
The rally aimed to show solidarity for those who have received verbal abuse and suffered violence, particularly homosexual youths often targeted by the fringe Christians.
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has slammed the Queensland Labor government over its decision to approve a 100% fly-in, fly-out workforce for the Caval Ridge coalmine near Moranbah, central Queensland.
The union has about 10,000 members in the state鈥檚 coalmines. It said it would fight the Bligh government's decision in the lead up to the Queensland election, due early next year.
鈥淲e will ensure our members and the communities they live in are not left behind,鈥 said CFMEU state secretary Jim Valery, the September 7 Courier Mail reported.
released the statement below on September 9.
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In August, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young wrote an in The Age arguing that 鈥渢he fight for marriage equality should be above party politics, which is a vital reason to give members of parliament a conscience vote on the matter鈥.
About 160 people gathered at The Gap State High School on September 8 for a community forum on the potential impacts of the coal seam gas industry.
Gubbi Gubbi elder Nurdon Serico gave a welcome to country, saying he had seen what mining can do to country and community, and highlighting that this industry will lead to the destruction of sacred Aboriginal sites as well as farming land.
Sixty people rallied outside Western Australia鈥檚 Parliament House on September 8 in a protest organised by the homeless rights supporters. The rally called on the Barnett Liberal government to provide proper funding to the state鈥檚 homeless people and support and shelter all year round.
The state government has set aside $112,500 for temporary accommodation and meals for homeless people during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in late October.
The decision by leaders of the Sub Central of the Indigenous Territory and National Isiboro Secure Park (TIPNIS), to initiate a 500-kilometre protest march on Bolivia's capital of La Paz capital has ignited much debate about the nature of Bolivia鈥檚 first indigenous led-government.
For many years we were regular contributors to 91自拍论坛 Weekly and proud supporters of the paper. We鈥檝e now decided to resume writing for GLW and we urge other former contributors to consider doing the same.
In May 2008, we and about 50 other former members of the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) launched the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and the monthly paper Direct Action (DA) following a bitter internal dispute in the DSP that centred on the Socialist Alliance.
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