The recently released independent Gonski review into school funding reaffirms what many teachers and parents already knew. Current school funding arrangements are dysfunctional and inequitable and the failure to reform the way we resource our public schools has come at an immense social and economic cost.
Gonski鈥檚 recommendations are far from perfect and recommend continued public funding of elite private schools. But they do highlight the need for an immediate injection of funds into public schools.
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The latest by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO was launched at a weather monitoring station on remote Cape Grim in Tasmania. The location was an apt choice for a report that has very bad news about Australia's continuing failure to respond adequately to the climate change crisis.
Newly appointed foreign minister Bob Carr said : 鈥淎s [NSW] Premier, I never saw a demonstration that didn鈥檛 hurt the side that mounted it. And I was never persuaded by a noisy crowd with a few placards.鈥
But on March 2, the same week he was appointed, the federal government gave a powerful confirmation of the power of protests.
The gas industry is fond of saying that burning gas for energy will help tackle climate change. Australian burning coal seam gas (CSG) results in 50% less greenhouse gas emissions than coal. bump up that figure to 70%.
Bob Katter鈥檚 homophobia is abhorrent, says socialist candidate
The Socialist Alliance Queensland released the statement below on March 15.
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Liam Flenady, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of South Brisbane in the March 24 Queensland elections, has slammed the TV ad by Bob Katter's Australian Party (KAP) that attacked Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman over the equal marriage issue. "The advert is homophobic and abhorrent to all decent human values," Flenady said.
released the statement below on March 16. * * * Today marks the launch of 鈥淏eat the Blockade鈥 鈥 a day of action on April 5 to protest the and raise vital funds for its work to continue.
Over 200 people attended a coal seam gas community forum in Oakdale on March 11, packing out the Workers鈥 Club. Local residents organised the meeting to tell the community about CSG development in their suburb.
released the statement below on March 16.
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Thursday March 15 2012 was a big day for the coal seam gas (CSG) issue in our state parliament.
In the morning a by Jeremy Buckingham of the Greens 鈥 to place a moratorium on all CSG projects in the state, other than the Camden production field.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Keith Westbrook visited Matagarup (Heirrison Island) in Perth on March 13 to talk to the Aboriginal protesters at the Nyoongar Tent Embassy about their fight for sovereignty and their campaign against the state Coalition government鈥檚 plan to extinguish native title rights in the southwest of Western Australia.
Tent Embassy spokesperson Greg Martin鈥檚 comments are below.
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released the statement below on March 14.
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Forest Rescue has been waging a non violent direct action battle with the Western Australia state government鈥檚 Forest Products Commission (FPC) in order to secure the last remaining numbat habitat in the southwest 鈥 the Warrup Forest near Bridgetown in WA.
The forest is one of the last remaining intact colonies of the numbat, of which less than a thousand remain in the wild. The numbat was originally found across the whole of southern Australia.
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