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鈥淭asers are not the 鈥檔on-lethal鈥 weapons the QPS [Queensland Police Service] leadership claims鈥, former state MP and former police officer Peter Pyke told the media in April. He predicted a Queenslander would die in 2009 from a Taser.
Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim introduced a private members bill on May 26. If passed, it will legalise euthanasia in the state.
On June 15, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) raised the rate of its standard variable mortgage by 0.1%. For home buyers with the typical $300,000 mortgage, this means repayments go up by $18 a month.
The NSW budget was handed down on June 16. NSW state treasurer Eric Roozendaal tried to spin it as a 聯beacon of hope聰 for the state.
The Business Council of Australia (BCA) 聴 representing Australia聮s largest 100 corporations 聴 has called for a higher consumption tax and for the company tax to be halved. It did so in a submission to the federal government聮s review of taxation (the Henry review) made public on June 14
In Search of Bony 鈥 Explores how Arthur Upfield came to create the unique and highly controversial fictional hero, Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte. SBS1, Friday, June 26, 2.30pm. Message Stick: Intervention 鈥 Two years ago, the Howard
Citing the dubious need for Queensland to keep its AAA credit rating, on June 2 Premier Anna Bligh announced the state would sell off $15 billion of public assets.
Aboriginal residents living in remote communities in the Northern Territory have condemned the government聮s 聯consultation聰 about the NT intervention as farcical.
State of Play
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Tony Gilroy
With Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Helen Mirren
In cinemas
Climate activists in Newcastle, already the world聮s biggest coal port, have been campaigning to stop a planned upgrade. The upgrade will double the port聮s coal export capacity and worsen climate change, they say.
In proof that Fela Anikulapo Kuti聮s radical legacy continues long after his death, Nigerian government authorities shut down his night club, Afrika Shrine, in Lagos on May 26.
A seminar at NSW Parliament House on June 16 discussed the current dire situation for Tamils in Sri Lanka and the need for the Rudd Labor government to step up and help protect human rights there.