The 2007 Socialist Summer School was a great success. Sponsored by Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP), both affiliates of the Socialist Alliance, the event was held at Sydney Universitys Womens College from January 4-7. Some 210 people attended the four days of talks, workshops, meetings and social events.
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The Climate Change, Despair and Empowerment roadshow, which will tour the east coast of Australia from January to March, is based on the highly successful Endangered Species roadshow organised by the Rainforest Information Centre in the run-up to the 2003 NSW state election.
December 14 marked the 100th day since the unfair dismissal of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) construction division delegate Barry Hemsworth from his job at Botany Cranes. The managers used the federal governments new anti-union laws to sack Hemsworth for the purported crime of insubordination in fact because he was defending the occupational health and safety standards at the company.
Woodchipping giant Gunns Ltds proposed $1.4 billion pulp mill in northern Tasmania continues to be the subject of controversy. Gunns has expressed impatience over the delays in the assessment process and threatened to axe the project if government approval is not given within six months.
George Browning, the Anglican Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, said on January 11 that it would not be morally responsible to vote in the next federal election for any party that did not have a credible climate change policy. He was speaking at the Australia as a Neighbour conference in Melbourne, organised by Initiatives of Change, Australia, and attended by 300 people from 17 countries.
For the first time since the foundation of the National Union of Students (NUS) 15 years ago, Labors right-wing student faction, Unity, was ousted from the office of general secretary at the NUS annual conference, held in Ballarat on December 4-7.
The Wilderness Society has called for more government funding and support for the Indigenous Protected Area program following the release on January 9 of an independent report that concludes that IPAs are one of the most effective initiatives in environment protection in Australia.
Three more people, including a teenager, have been charged following the November 19 protests against the G20 financial ministers summit in Melbourne, bringing the total number of participants charged to 11. The following is an abridged version of a statement Resistance issued in response to the arrests.
The decision this month by Bankstown City Council, in Sydneys western suburbs, to cancel the venue for the January 27 Khilafah Conference speaks volumes of the empty rhetoric surrounding the supposed noble epitomes of western liberal democracy, said Wassim Doureihi, spokesperson for Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia, in a January 10 media statement.
Pat Robinson of Oatley won the first prize a spectacular $350 hamper in Sydneys 2006 Green Left Weekly end-of-year raffle. She told GLW that her win was a total surprise because she didnt even know that shed entered the raffle. The winning ticket was purchased as a gift by GLW subscriber and Socialist Alliance member Noel Hazard.
Last September, Queensland’s acting state coroner Christine Clements ruled that Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, a police officer working on the Palm Island Aboriginal community, had caused the death of Aboriginal man Mulrunji while in his custody
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