A 59-year-old Aboriginal man died in Darwin on May 21 while being held under controversial new 鈥減aperless arrest laws鈥. These laws give police the powers to arrest people for summary offences 鈥 such as 鈥渙bscenity鈥, undue noise, offensive language 鈥 and hold them for up to four hours at a time.
In NSW, a program that has been proved to prevent Aboriginal deaths in custody has lost funding under the federal government鈥檚 ironically named Indigenous Advancement Strategy.
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Last week, the Gippsland environment group Goongerah Environment Centre (GEC) was shortlisted for the prestigious United Nations World Environment Day Awards in the Habitat Restoration and Biodiversity category.
The announcement came as the Victorian government was threatening to prosecute GEC volunteers for exposing an illegal rainforest logging operation.
The federal government wants to allow burning native forest waste to qualify for renewable energy subsidies under the Renewable Energy Target (RET).
They reached a compromise with Labor early this month for a renewable energy target of 33 gigawatt hours (GWh).
However, negotiations have since broken down due to the federal government鈥檚 fine print inclusion of burning native forest biomass in furnaces and the retention of two-yearly reviews of the RET.
FRANCE BANS GROCERS FROM THROWING OUT LEFTOVER FOOD
French supermarkets will be and must instead donate it to charities or for animal feed, under a law passed unanimously by the French National Assembly to crack down on food waste.
Exorbitant gas and electricity bills are threatening Victorian living standards.
The Essential Services Commission (ESC) of Victoria reported that more than 34,000 households were disconnected from essential utilities in 2013/14.
The residential electricity disconnection rate increased this year to 1.47 disconnections per 100 customers, a 36% increase on the 1.07 disconnections in 2012/13.
The ESC also reported an increase in the gas disconnection rate to 1.33 disconnections per 100 customers, a 42% increase on the rate in 2012/13.
Dozens of members and officials of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) rallied at the Block on May 26to show support for the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) and its ongoing struggle for social housing for the Aboriginal community.
They were also there to oppose the Aboriginal Housing Corporation鈥檚 attempt to evict the embassy from the site. The eviction notice for the embassy had come into effect that day.
Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism
Edited by Miranda Kiraly & Meagan Tyler
Published by Connor Court, 2015
With Miley Cyrus declaring herself 鈥渙ne of the biggest feminists in the world鈥, and Beyonce performing at the 2014 MTV Music Awards in front of a huge illuminated sign that read 鈥淔eminist鈥, it would appear that feminism has gone mainstream.
The University of Sydney has found no grounds to dismiss Associate Professor Jake Lynch as director of the university鈥檚 Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, following its investigation into possible breaches of its code of conduct.
Lynch will keep his job and has been cleared of serious misconduct after an investigation into a campus protest left him facing dismissal.
This follows an announcement by the university in April clearing Lynch of accusations of anti-Semitism.
The township of Camberwell in the Hunter Valley and Camberwell coalmine in the background.
Early this month, Beyond Zero Emissions published a report called , which highlighted the potential economic risks to Australia because of its heavy dependence on fossil fuel exports.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has turned playing the national security card into a cliche in his desperate attempt to reverse his unpopularity by promising to protect Australians' lives from a serious threat of terrorism.
On May 26, he again gave a press conference in front of half a dozen Australian flags, arguing that stopping Australians from being harmed by terrorists was his government's overriding priority and foreshadowing announcements in the coming parliamentary sitting week of a new round of legislation attacking fundamental civil liberties.
This month, the Radioactive Exposure (RAD) Tour will travel almost 5000 kilometres through three states exposing the reality of radioactive racism, the impacts of uranium mining, radioactive waste and nuclear expansion.
The Rad Tour is a wild ride. It bundles activists, campaigners and anyone with an interest in learning about the nuclear industry into buses to travel dusty desert roads and long highways on a journey through Australia鈥檚 nuclear landscape.
In 1939, as Europe stood on the verge of all-out war, Nazi Germany, true to their promise, had issued and implemented 400 different decrees for the regulation of the public and private lives of Jews. Their properties were confiscated, and their businesses and synagogues were burned down. These laws effectively purged Jews from schools, academia, business and public life, and declared them 鈥渦ndesirables鈥. Many Jews were forced to seek asylum in other Western countries.
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