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Green Left Weekly issue #762, 13 August 2008
Write On: Letter to the editor

LETTERS Hillsong's miracle make-up cure

RESISTANCE! The conservative Christian group Hillsong has launched a controversial new youth program “Shine”, aimed, it says, at “promoting self-esteem” in teenage girls considered to be “at risk”, due to personal problems or behavioural issues. » Why are politicians so scared of same-sex marriage rights?

RESISTANCE! In August 2004, around the same time as the Howard Coalition government banned same-sex marriage, the religious right held an anti-gay marriage forum at Parliament House in Canberra. It was attended by about 2000 people. » Our Common Cause: Dealing with the global warming challenge

OUR COMMON CAUSE How do we act on the need for urgent action to solve the climate change challenge? » Yes to peace! No to war fair!

The following call to action has been issued by the Adelaide-based Stop the War Fair committee. » A tale of two meetings

A flurry of public meetings followed the federal government’s green paper on carbon emissions trading. I attended two quite different information sessions in Sydney. » An apology to the Tamil people

There can be no peace, and certainly no peace with coexistence, in Sri Lanka — divided or undivided — until there is an apology from the Sinhalese to the Tamils for all the atrocities unleashed on them, not just in 1983, but all the way back to 1956, and increasingly so today. » Labour shortage or lack of well-paid jobs?

On August 6, Victoria University of Technology (VUT) hosted a seminar, “Pacific Islands Migration and Labour Mobility: Issues and Responses”, which discussed the potential for an unskilled guest worker scheme for Pacific Island workers. Some Pacific nations have called for such program to help a... » Unions concerned over WorkSafe report

The Victorian state government is considering far-reaching changes to workers’ compensation laws. » Fanning the flames of climate change

“As near as we can tell looking at the historical record, there’s been ice in the Arctic in the summer for at least 16 million years”, Don Perovich, a geophysicist with the US army’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, told the August 4 Four Corners program. Arctic ... » Can markets stop climate change?

Internationally, as in Australia, governments forced to promise climate change action have generally promoted market-based carbon abatement schemes, mostly of the “cap and trade” variety. But can we trade our way out of our climate difficulties? Can market mechanisms deal with a problem of... » Call for national emergency climate protests

The following call for a national week of protest action, beginning September 21, was issued by the July 5 Climate Emergency Rally organising committee in Melbourne, and endorsed by the August 2 Climate Justice seminar. » Sewerage reform: concrete sustainability ideas

Hydrologists such as professors Peter Cullen, Richard Kingsford and Derek Eamus, speaking at public forums in NSW earlier this year, warned that Australians are extracting water from stressed rivers and artesian systems faster than it is being replenished. »


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