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Green Left Weekly issue #795, 20 May 2009
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LETTERS The blood on Rudd’s hands

EDITORIAL Greens Senator Bob Brown moved the following motion to the Australian Senate on May 12: “That the Senate, in regard to the massacre of civilians, including hundreds of children, in the Tamil homelands of northern Sri Lanka, calls on the government to take decisive action commensurate with the need... » Budget has no answers for young people

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA Labor delivered its budget on May 12 in the context of Australia’s slide into recession. With the economic crisis hitting hard, young people are one of the most vulnerable groups in society. » Millions spent to persecute refugees

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA The federal government announced in its budget that $1.3 billion will be spent over six years “aimed at tackling people-smuggling and securing Australia’s borders”, the Australian reported on May 13. » Parental leave scheme falls way short

AUSTRALIA On May 10, federal treasurer Wayne Swan announced that Australia will finally join the overwhelming majority of developed countries in implementing a national paid parental leave scheme. But the plan falls way short of what women need. » Geothermal energy — hot promise, tepid response

AUSTRALIA “One hundred percent renewable energy in Australia by 2020!” That was the bold call endorsed by members of more than 150 climate action groups at the Climate Action Summit held in Canberra in January. » Anti-logging protests escalate

AUSTRALIA Since police raided the Florentine Valley protest camp on May 4, at least 32 people have been arrested for participating in protests against logging in the southern Tasmanian valley. » Alice town camps resist ‘mainstreaming’

AUSTRALIA In a new lease deal proposed by Aboriginal affairs minister Jenny Macklin in early May, Aboriginal people in Alice Springs town camps could lose control over their housing. » Football scandal: sexual abuse and society

AUSTRALIA On May 11, ABC’s Four Corners screened an interview with a young woman from New Zealand. She recounted an alleged 2002 sexual assault in a Christchurch hotel room by at least 12 players and staff from the Cronulla Sharks. » Labor’s budget — work until you drop

AUSTRALIA Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered the Labor government’s second budget on May 12. Swan’s bleak message was clear: for those with a job, it’s a matter of work until you drop. » Afghan women’s rights protest

AUSTRALIA More than 100 members of the Australian-Afghan community and supporters protested in front of Parliament House and the Afghan embassy in Canberra on May 12. » Afghanistan: not a just war

AUSTRALIA A week after the Rudd government announced Australian troops would join the US and NATO-led troop surge in Afghanistan, a May 4 US air strike on two villages in the country’s south-west killed up to 150 civilians, including many women and children. » Campaign demands more rail, fewer trucks

AUSTRALIA More than 50 people joined a public meeting in Lawson in the Blue Mountains on May 11 and discussed a new campaign to stop plans by the Roads and Traffic Authority to upgrade the Great Western Highway. » Solar feed-in tariff protested

AUSTRALIA Two hundred people protested at Parliament House on May 6 against the Victorian government’s proposed solar feed-in tariff legislation. » STAND against state forest logging

AUSTRALIA On May 9, local residents gathered in the remote Clouds Creek State Forest to protest Forest NSW logging operations. » The end of Reconciliation Victoria

AUSTRALIA While federal and state governments focus on the need for state-based reconciliation groups to bring better understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, Reconciliation Victoria Incorporated (Rec Vic) will have to close in July due to a lack of funding. » Australian media fails Tamils

The Sri Lankan government’s war against the Tamil minority has again exposed the extent to which the corporate media reinforces the status quo — no matter how unjust. »


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