PM John Howards new intervention policy in the Northern Territory has begun with federal and state police storming into Indigenous communities.
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On June 30, 45 people met to prepare the next phase of the Save Ralphs Bay (SRB) action groups campaign against a proposed canal housing estate being built by the Walker Corporation, owned by billionaire Lang Walker, inside the publicly owned Ralphs Bay Conservation Area, in the Derwent river estuary.
A bill recently pushed through federal parliament has the potential to threaten state moratoriums on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by granting new powers to the federal agriculture minister, a WA anti-GMO activist told Green Left Weekly.
On July 5, anti-war activist Peter McGregor confronted Attorney-General Philip Ruddock at a University of NSW symposium and served him with a warrant for war crimes. Police arrested McGregor, a retired academic from Newcastle, and charged him with unlawful entry on inclosed lands. The warrant charged Ruddock, along with PM John Howard, foreign minister Alexander Downer and defence minister Brendan Nelson with crimes including Planning, preparing, initiation or waging a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances.
Recent attacks on the organic food industry are about discrediting it to soften up the public to accept genetically modified (GM) crops, Dr Maggie Lilith of the Conservation Council of WA and the Say No to GMO campaign told Green Left Weekly.
Pressure from unions over the exploitation of foreign workers employed under the 457 visa scheme for temporary workers has forced the Howard government to tighten some of the regulations.
Three years after extending its moratorium on the commercial growing of genetically modified (GM) crops, the Victorian ALP government appears poised to remove the ban when it expires in February 2008.
Fifty delegates from the Queer Collaborations student conference, held in Hobart from July 9 to 13, rallied on July 12 in solidarity with Northern Territory Indigenous communities that are being invaded by federal police. The conference voted to support the Indigenous community in the NT against the Howard governments interference. The rally then marched to Liberal Senator Eric Abetzs office to hand him the statement written by the elders of the Mutitjulu people, which asked for community assistance but not police intervention.
It is often thought that concern for the interconnection of living systems is a modern development. But Karl Marxs talked about it repeatedly throughout his Capital.
I am sure readers would agree that the real swindlers were exposed in the discussion after the much-watched screening of Martin Durkins Great Global Warming Swindle on ABC TV last week.
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