Despite crisis levels of overcrowding, many urban Aboriginal communities have been denied federal funding for new housing. On March 18, ABC online said town camps around Darwin were not allocated any of the $1.5 billion in upgrades planned for Aboriginal communities.
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Activists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre (HVEC) and Still Wild Still Threatened returned to the Picton Valley on April 7 to launch a 10-week campaign to protest the logging of Tasmania鈥檚 old growth forests.
Police broke up a similar protest in the Picton Valley on February 18, in which two HVEC protesters were arrested.
HVEC鈥檚 Jenny Weber said on April 7 that the groups鈥 campaign is 鈥渁imed at promoting the benefits to both the community and the environment that will be delivered when native forests are given full and formal legislated protection.
The disgusting and heartbreaking photos are finally bringing the grisly truth about the war in Afghanistan to a wider public.
All the PR about this war being about democracy and human rights melts into thin air with these pictures of US soldiers posing with the dead and mutilated bodies of innocent Afghan civilians.
I must report that Afghans do not believe this be a story of a few rogue soldiers. We that is part and parcel of the entire military occupation.
ITEC Employment and its related entity Community Enterprises Australia (CEA) are preparing a submission to the federal government that will argue 鈥渢he pendulum has swung too far in favour of the jobseeker鈥, in relation to changes to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) on Aboriginal communities, The Australian said on April 2.
CEA is the largest CDEP provider in Australia.
You could be forgiven for thinking that the pendulum swinging 鈥渢oo far in favour of the jobseeker鈥 meant, perhaps, that people were finding work.
We now know what Washington鈥檚 model is for the Middle East, in its most attractive guise.
In answer to Egypt鈥檚 Tahrir Square uprising, they have smoking craters filled with the charred remains of rebels, conscript soldiers, civilians and other blameless people who must have seen the joy in Egypt and Tunisia and wished it for themselves.
In answer to the turbulent, democratic republic, with its tumult of leftist, Nasserist, Islamist and liberal currents, they offer a prolonged civil war at best, culminating in a settlement with Muammar Gaddafi鈥檚 son Saif and his sibling.
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) member of the Sri Lankan parliament M. A. Sumanthiran, addressed a meeting organised by the Australian Tamil Congress on March 26.
He said that even though Tamils in Sri Lanka are a nation with the right to self-determination, the formation of a separate state is not a realistic option because of the opposition of the 鈥渋nternational community鈥.
Article 1 of the United Nations charter speaks of the right of self-determination of peoples. However, in the 1960s the UN General Assembly put some restrictions on this right.
The Egyptian army has violently cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in Cairo鈥檚 Tahrir Square on the night of April 8, BBC.co.uk said the next day.
Medical sources said two protesters were killed and the health ministry said 71 were hurt.
Protesters were demanding greater changes from the interim government that took over after dictator Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February, including demands that Mubarak be made to stand trial.
Protesters re-occupied Tahrir Square on April 9, BBC.co.uk said.
The Venezuelan government will begin a process of recovering 300,000 hectares of land during April that have been in the hands of an unnamed English company, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in an interview during his trip to Uruguay.
Chavez said the process of taking back or 鈥渞ecovering鈥 land had been fundamental to the revolutionary process led by his government. He said this especially so that 鈥渨orker control鈥 could 鈥減revent companies from exploiting the land and workers, and getting rich and taking the earnings overseas鈥.
The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu is reputed to have said: 鈥淚f you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.鈥
This sums up the problem we face from human-caused climate change.
A 鈥渃limate scoreboard鈥 published by Climateinteractive.org calculates the impact of the current commitments by the world鈥檚 governments to cut carbon emissions.
It estimates that if the promised emissions cuts are carried out in full, the earth would still warm by about 4掳C by 2100 鈥 far above the maximum warming of 1.5掳C needed to maintain a safe planet.
Nine Aboriginal people have sued Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt in Melbourne over four articles he wrote in 2009.
The court has heard the articles questioned the motives of 鈥渓ight鈥 or 鈥渨hite-skinned鈥 people who identified as Aboriginal.
The people taking the action under the Racial Vilification Act include activist Pat Eatock, former ATSIC chairperson Geoff Clark, artist Bindi Cole, academic Larissa Behrendt, author Anita Heiss, health worker Leeanne Enoch, native title expert Graham Atkinson, academic Wayne Atkinson and lawyer Mark McMillan.
Love Andrew Bolt or loathe him, you鈥檝e got to admit the right-wing Herald Sun columnist and radio shock jock is a master of the ambush interview.
Add in Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott鈥檚 slipperiness with any kind of truth 鈥 scientific, political or otherwise 鈥 and you have a media product so toxic it deserves to be trucked off for incineration by people in respirator suits.
Unfortunately, that鈥檚 the product that was all over the talkback airwaves and parliamentary reports for several days at the end of March.
If you change the names, the description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would be a description of what is happening in South Africa. 鈥 South African anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1989
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