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Green Left Weekly issue #794, 10 May 2009
Write On: Letters to the editor

LETTERS, AUSTRALIA Rudd’s unfair ‘earn or learn’ crackdown

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA PM Kevin Rudd has announced plans for a scheme that will deny youth allowance to unemployed people under 20 years old, unless they are at school or engaged in full-time vocational training. » Rudd gambles with the planet

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA The Socialist Alliance condemns and totally rejects the Rudd government’s modified proposal for a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) announced on May 4. » Always march in the streets and never give in!

AUSTRALIA This is an abridged version of the speech given to the Wollongong May Day march on May 2 by Fred Moore. » Workers to bear budget pain

AUSTRALIA The federal budget will be presented to parliament by Treasurer Wayne Swan on May 12. While Swan has been officially tight-lipped about its contents, he has already released significant details about the cuts to programs and government jobs the budget will hand down. » Kevin Rudd embraces climate suicide

AUSTRALIA PM Kevin Rudd’s announced changes to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) has again split the climate movement, and this time it’s very serious, with three large, rusted-on-to-Labor groups running cover for an appalling policy that won’t guarantee a reduction in Austr... » No war budget! Money for people and planet!

AUSTRALIA Ask an average Australian what they might hope the federal government would spend $300 billion on and the answer would hopefully be vast investment in new jobs and services, given we’re heading into recession, and reducing Australia’s climate change impact. » ACF — ‘You lack a credible position’

AUSTRALIA Melbourne-based climate activist Pablo Brait sent the letter below to the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) on May 5. » Australian academics urge boycott of Israeli universities

AUSTRALIA More than 40 Australian academics have signed a statement calling for a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions. » ‘Crisis accommodation at crisis point’

AUSTRALIA Domestic violence support centres in Alice Springs are in desperate need of funds to meet demand. » Climate groups condemn gov’t

AUSTRALIA Within 24 hours of the Rudd government’s announcement of new changes to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, 66 climate action groups signed a statement condemning the decision. » Nuclear weapons and ’fourth generation’ reactors

AUSTRALIA “Integral fast reactors” and other “fourth generation” nuclear power concepts have been gaining attention, in part because of comments by US climate scientist James Hansen. » Performance pay has no place in public education

AUSTRALIA New South Wales Teachers Federation (NSWTF)president Bob Lipscombe has announced an new position on performance pay on the federation’s website. » Steel union protects bosses’ profits

AUSTRALIA Since the global economic crisis began, there has been a sharp fall in global demand for steel, resulting in more competition between steel makers. » Workers losing under Labor’s IR laws

AUSTRALIA The federal Labor government’s pre-election promise to abolish anti-worker Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) has once again been exposed as a lie. »


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