released the statement below on September 11.
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The Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN) has condemned Minister Chris Bowen鈥檚 announcement that asylum seekers will be moved to Nauru from the end of this week.
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The newly formed Rainbow Youth Collective was officially launched in Adelaide at a social gathering at the activist centre on September 7. The event also marked Wear It Purple Day 鈥 a national youth day against homophobia.
About 50 young people from a variety of backgrounds attended throughout the evening.
The launch provided an excellent opportunity for networking between people involved in different queer groups in Adelaide with a rich variety of interests, contacts and specialty areas.
on September 11.
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The Lock the Gate Alliance reacted to today鈥檚 announcement of the NSW government鈥檚 Strategic Regional Land Use Policy by saying that gates across the state would remain locked to coal and coal seam gas mining.
on September 11.
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The NSW government today released its Strategic Regional Land Use Policy; plans the public was told would protect land and water. Stop CSG Illawarra has described the plans released today as a disaster and a broken election promise; and one that fails to protect drinking water catchments.
on September 10.
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The Socialist Alliance condemns the Australian government鈥檚 ongoing support for Indonesian security forces, particularly the Detachment 88 鈥渃ounter-terrorism鈥 unit implicated in human rights abuses in the occupied nation of West Papua and elsewhere in Indonesia.
Everywhere you look these days, things are turning green. In Chiapas, Mexico, indigenous farmers are being paid to protect the last vast stretch of rainforest in Mesoamerica. In the Brazilian Amazon, peasant families are given a monthly 鈥済reen basket鈥 of basic food staples to allow them to get by without cutting down trees. In Kenya, small farmers who plant climate-hardy trees and protect green zones are promised payment for their part in the fight to reduce global warming.
released the statement below on September 10.
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