Its hard to ignore a group of people dressed in mangy Koala suits outside NSW parliament house. Its more difficult to ignore the campaign for the protection of red gum forests, which is what the September 23 Wilderness Society protest drew attention to.
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The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, has threatened that Catholic hospitals could be forced to close emergency and maternity wards if a proposed bill to decriminalise abortion is passed.
Dear Professor Garnaut,
In your recent letter to scientists and environmental groups, you asked for further input into your final report on the question of the 450ppm target and “overshoot”, and Australia’s position given the uncertainties about the outcome of future global negotiations.
We need a council that stands up for residents against greedy developers and the anti-people policies of the state and federal governments, Vannessa Hearman, a Socialist Alliance candidate for South Ward in the Moreland Council election on November 29, told Green Left Weekly.
The Newcastle ALP branch effectively delivered Newcastle Council to the right in the September 13 elections, by preferencing Aaron Buman’s team of “razor gang” independents instead of the Greens.
Residents of Caroona, in the Liverpool Plains of New South Wales, are in their 11th week of a blockade that has stopped BHP Billiton from carrying out coal exploration on their land.
We need a genuine peoples movement like this planet has never seen, Friends of the Earths Dr John Mackenzie told the launch of Climate Emergency Week at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) on September 22. We need a global movement that will make the sixties look like a rehearsal!
Newspaper articles sometimes tell so much of the truth that they prompt raids by the Australian Federal Police.
Im a strong believer in free enterprise, so my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention, affirmed US President George W. Bush, in his September 24 television speech to promote the biggest corporate bailout plan since the Great Depression. I believe companies that make bad decisions should be allowed to go out of business.
Save the Tamil children in Sri Lanka; Cricket Australia dont play cricket in the Tamil killing field; Mr Rudd <197< condemn Sri Lanka for breaking the peace accords. These were some of the messages on placards and banners held at a picket of PM Kevin Rudds Morningside office on September 23.
Speaking from within the belly of the beast, Bolivia’s indigenous President Evo Morales announced at the 63rd United Nations General Assembly that the world today is paying witness to a “fight between rich and poor, between socialism and capitalism”.
Outraged by illegal and unsafe development on the Illawarra escarpment, more than 50 local residents piled into their community hall on September 21 for a meeting organised by Corrimal Action for Rehabilitation of our Escarpment.
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