Three hundred and fifty kilometres north-east of Alice Springs a group of elders from the Alyawarr language group are sitting down in a rough, makeshift camp. Three kilometres away is their community of Ampilatwatja.
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The mainstream media have been quick to praise the 鈥渞esilience鈥 of the Australian economy and the Rudd government has lauded itself for avoiding a 鈥渢echnical recession鈥, but the human impact of the economic downturn has been downplayed.
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) president Sharan Burrow emailed thousands of people with a plea to back the federal Labor government鈥檚 flawed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
The Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) released by the federal Treasury on November 2 is upbeat. Revising the May budget鈥檚 projections for the Australian economy, it predicted unemployment will peak lower, growth will be higher and inflation will be under control.
Vivienne Porzsolt, a spokesperson for Jews Against the Occupation Sydney (JAO), is one of 10 activists from NSW who will spend their summer break challenging Israel鈥檚 defiance of international law. She will take part in the international Gaza Freedom March over December-January.
Three hundred and fifty kilometres north-east of Alice Springs a group of elders from the Alyawarr language group are sitting down in a rough, makeshift camp. Three kilometres away is their community of Ampilatwatja.
NSW Premier Nathan Rees launched a government 鈥渆ducation program鈥 about climate change in May. The 鈥渨hat you can do in your world鈥 program urged householders to cut carbon pollution by using less energy and switching to energy-efficient light bulbs and electrical appliances.
The price tag for the desalination plant planned for Wonthaggi has increased from $3.5 billion to $4.8 billion.
On November 2, Hamid Karzai began another term as president of Western-occupied Afghanistan after being officially declared the winner in an election so blatantly fraudulent that his main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, refused to take part in it any longer.
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NSW Technical and Further Education (TAFE) teachers have continued their industrial campaign against an unfair award imposed by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC), which would have TAFE teachers work an additional five hours a week, and teach an additional 36 hours a year, with no right to refuse.
A recent national speaking tour generated growing support for the Ampilatwatja community walk-off 鈥 an ongoing protest camp against the Northern Territory intervention.
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