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Green Left Weekly issue #799, 24 June 2009
Write on — letters to the editor

LETTERS ‘Take control of the future’

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA The following article is based on a talk given to the Wollongong Climate Emergency Rally on June 13 by Vanessa Organo. Organo is the environment representative at Wollongong University Students’ Association and a member of Resistance. » People power to fight climate change

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA Jess Moore, Socialist Alliance member and national coordinator of Resistance, gave the following speech to the June 13 Wollongong Climate Emergency Rally. » One lesson of an awful death: no to prison privatisation!

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA In January 2008, in Western Australia, Aboriginal elder, highly respected community leader and grandfather Mr Ward died of heatstroke in an oven-hot prison van driven by employees of prisons operator Global Solutions Ltd, now taken over by Group 4 Securitas (G4S). » ‘Plan B’: less climate action than we need

AUSTRALIA In May, visiting US ecologist Bill McKibben spoke at a packed forum at the University of Sydney. He put a compelling case for emergency action on climate change. In short, we must act now and act decisively. Otherwise the planet will become uninhabitable. » Bill criminalises defence of safety

AUSTRALIA “Some may be disappointed in some parts of this bill”, deputy prime minister and workplace relations minister Julia Gillard told parliament on June 17. » Banks cry poor (again)

AUSTRALIA 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. » Gillard’s visit to Israel cannot be justified

AUSTRALIA The Rudd government will send a 40-member delegation, led by deputy prime minister Julia Gillard, to an “Australia Israel Leadership Forum” in Jerusalem on June 25-26. The government’s decision is yet further confirmation of its desire to outdo the former Howard government in blind support for... » Racism kills: Demand justice for Mr Ward

AUSTRALIA “I would have been concerned if it was a dog or some other animal who died in those conditions, but since it was only a black-fella …” » Lethal weapons: Ban Tasers now!

AUSTRALIA “Tasers are not the ’non-lethal’ weapons the QPS [Queensland Police Service] leadership claims”, 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. » After the climate rallies — taking stock

AUSTRALIA We would have loved for them to be bigger, but the June 13 national climate rallies were an unmistakable step forward for the climate action movement. More than 11,000 rallied nationally, making them the largest climate actions yet in the era of PM Kevin Rudd. » Fetim Sellami: ‘I am not a slave’

AUSTRALIA Saharawi refugee and preschool teacher Fetim Sellami is a central character in the Australian documentary Stolen, a film set in the refugee camps in south-west Algeria that have been home to 165,000 Saharawi refugees since their country, Western Sahara, was invaded by Morocco in 1975. » Big business calls for tax ‘reform’

AUSTRALIA The Business Council of Australia (BCA) — representing Australia’s largest 100 corporations — 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’s review of taxation (the Henry review) made public on J... » Fake consultations in the NT

AUSTRALIA Aboriginal residents living in remote communities in the Northern Territory have condemned the government’s “consultation” about the NT intervention as farcical. » NSW budget confirms privatisation push

AUSTRALIA The NSW budget was handed down on June 16. NSW state treasurer Eric Roozendaal tried to spin it as a “beacon of hope” for the state. » Qld to sell $15bn of public assets

AUSTRALIA 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. » Stopping the pulp mill is still the issue

AUSTRALIA Despite widespread opposition, forest giant Gunns Ltd is still pressing ahead with its proposed pulp mill in the pristine Tamar Valley in northern Tasmania. But the campaign against it shows no signs of going away. » Tasmanian Greens introduce euthanasia bill

AUSTRALIA Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim introduced a private members bill on May 26. If passed, it will legalise euthanasia in the state. »


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