On September 24, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert tabled legislation that would establish a fund to compensate members and families of the Stolen Generations, but the Rudd Labor government is unlikely to support it.
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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 鈥渙vershoot鈥, and Australia鈥檚 position given the uncertainties about the outcome of future global negotiations.
Members of a range of unions protested outside the RACV club on September 25, where the Victorian WorkCover Authority (VWA) announced its end of year financial and operational results. The protest was called by the Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC), which is concerned about changes to WorkCover proposed in the Hanks review.
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.
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.
On September 23, about 200 hospital administration workers in far-north Queensland were the first to strike as part of a state-wide campaign to improve wages in Queensland Health.
The Newcastle ALP branch effectively delivered Newcastle Council to the right in the September 13 elections, by preferencing Aaron Buman鈥檚 team of 鈥渞azor gang鈥 independents instead of the Greens.
The 聯new racist regime聰 in Australia 聴 also 聯called the Rudd government聰 聴 was condemned by Aboriginal activists at a Redfern rally held on September 27, before the release of a federal government review into the 聯intervention聰 into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and other parts of Australia.
On September 23, one of Burma鈥檚 longest-serving political prisoners, 78-year-old progressive journalist U Win Tin, was released from Insein Prison after more than 19 years. He was one of six political prisoners included in an amnesty of 9002 prisoners declared by the military junta.
Newspaper articles sometimes tell so much of the truth that they prompt raids by the Australian Federal Police.
The August-October speaking tour by 麻豆传媒 Weekly journalist Kiraz Janicke has been inspiring students, workers and community activists around Australia with accounts of Venezuela鈥檚 Bolivarian revolution.
Salisbury Council, in the northern suburbs, is a world leader in stormwater harvesting. It is on track to produce 20 gigalitres of water per annum by 2010, just short of 10% of Adelaide鈥檚 total water usage.
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