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.
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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.
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.
Integral fast reactors and other fourth generation nuclear power concepts have been gaining attention, in part because of comments by US climate scientist James Hansen.
New South Wales Teachers Federation (NSWTF)president Bob Lipscombe has announced an new position on performance pay on the federation’s website.
The federal Labor government’s pre-election promise to abolish anti-worker Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) has once again been exposed as a lie.
More than 40 Australian academics have signed a statement calling for a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions.
Since the global economic crisis began, there has been a sharp fall in global demand for steel, resulting in more competition between steel makers.
Domestic violence support centres in Alice Springs are in desperate need of funds to meet demand.
PM Kevin Rudds announced changes to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) has again split the climate movement, and this time its very serious, with three large, rusted-on-to-Labor groups running cover for an appalling policy that wont guarantee a reduction in Australian emissions for decades.
Ask an average Australian what they might hope the federal government would spend $300 billion on and the answer would hopefully be vast investment in new jobs and services, given we’re heading into recession, and reducing Australia’s climate change impact.
This is an abridged version of the speech given to the Wollongong May Day march on May 2 by Fred Moore.
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