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Green Left Weekly issue #788, 25 March 2009
Rudd’s education revolution… not

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA The detail of PM Kevin Rudd’s election promise of an “education revolution” in higher education is finally coming to light: privatisation, deregulation and increased competition between institutions. » World’s biggest coal port brought to a standstill

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA More than 500 people protested coal mining and exports currently underway. Newcastle Harbour is already the world’s biggest coal port. » Class, not national solutions, to the economic crisis

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA As the economic recession deepens across the globe, the spectres of economic regulation and nationalism, seemingly slain by the prophets of globalisation and free trade, have risen again. » Agriculture and climate change

AUSTRALIA Australian agriculture both contributes to climate change and is adversely affected by it. Any campaign in to force urgent government action on climate change has to include a demand for the radical transformation of rural land use and farming systems to be ecologically sustainable. » Gov’t scapegoats migrants, cuts quota

AUSTRALIA On March 16, federal immigration minister Chris Evans announced that the Rudd government would cut the skilled migration intake for the current financial year by 18,500. This, claimed Evans in a ministerial statement, would “protect local jobs”. » Labor locks up more refugees

AUSTRALIA A boat-load of asylum seekers believed to be from Afghanistan has been “intercepted” by the Australian navy and sent to the Christmas Island detention centre. » What alternatives to the CPRS?

AUSTRALIA Climate activists have been campaigning against the government’s so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) long before the exposure legislation was tabled in parliament on March 10. » Behind the Qld oil spill disaster

AUSTRALIA On March 11, a 185-metre container ship, the Pacific Adventurer was en route from Newcastle to Indonesia via Brisbane when it lost 31 containers in heavy seas about seven nautical miles east of Cape Moreton. » Emirates: doing business in NSW

AUSTRALIA The ingredients of big-business operations in NSW were all there: a multinational tourism operator; environmental groups with varying interests; a donation to the NSW Labor Party; the apparent channelling of another donation; a local council decision overturned by the Land and Environment Court; and... » Justice for Africans

AUSTRALIA Soubhi Iskander is a leading member of the Sudanese Australia Human Rights Association, a committee based in Sydney’s west, that campaigns for the rights of Sudanese refugees. SAHRA is also an affiliate of the Socialist Alliance. » Sack Connex! Boycott Israel!

AUSTRALIA In 2002, the CityPass consortium was awarded the contract to build and run the Jerusalem light rail. Amnesty International, the Arab League, and unions, church and community groups worldwide have condemned this project as another step in Israel's annexation of Palestinian land. » Stop the prison cell-off

AUSTRALIA In the late evening of March 15, the NSW correctional services department used management personnel to transfer 107 prisoners from the Cessnock jail in preparation for its privatisation. » Unfair work bill passes senate

AUSTRALIA The federal ALP government’s Fair Work Bill passed through the Senate on March 20 after intense wheeling and dealing with Family First Senator Steve Fielding and independent Senator Nick Xenophon. »


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