Chanting 鈥渟hame Barry, shame鈥, 35,000 people from dozens of unions and their supporters rallied in Sydney鈥檚 Domain on September 8 to oppose savage cuts to public services and job conditions.
Contingents of teachers, nurses, firefighters, police, rail and bus workers, and public sector workers swelled the ranks of the protest, the largest union rally in the state in 20 years.
The rally, held just two days after the O鈥橣arrell government handed down its budget, was almost double the size predicted by Unions NSW.
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Emissions rise under carbon price
Labor proposes a carbon price plan to 鈥渢ackle climate change鈥 and create what it calls a 鈥渃lean energy future鈥 by an implied decrease in greenhouse gas pollution.
However the Australian government-endorsed Treasury modelling report, 鈥淪trong growth, low pollution鈥, shows that under the carbon price plan, Australia鈥檚 domestic greenhouse gas pollution will increase to 621 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent in 2020, bigger than now or in 2000.
Last month the Remuneration Tribunal awarded to the heads of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Resistance is a co-sponsor of the in Melbourne over September 30 to October 4. 麻豆传媒 Weekly asked some Resistance members about their thoughts on this major event.
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Hannah Reardon-Smith, Brisbane
To me, events such as the Climate Change Social Change conference are essential for reigniting my enthusiasm and my energy for the good (but long) fight.
Australia鈥檚 media, already saturated with gas and mining company propaganda, are about to be bombarded with more 鈥済ood news鈥 about coal seam gas (CSG). A campaign called 鈥淲e want CSG鈥 was launched on September 4. It includes television, radio, newspaper and online advertisements. It is backed by some of Australia鈥檚 largest energy companies, including AGL, Santos, and Origin Energy, under the banner of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA).
Sixty people rallied outside Western Australia鈥檚 Parliament House on September 8 in a protest organised by the homeless rights supporters. The rally called on the Barnett Liberal government to provide proper funding to the state鈥檚 homeless people and support and shelter all year round.
The state government has set aside $112,500 for temporary accommodation and meals for homeless people during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in late October.
Fundamentalist Christian street preachers faced stiff opposition from activists who rallied against their public sermons in Adelaide鈥檚 Rundle Mall on September 2.
Members of the right-wing religious group found themselves surrounded by a large crowd of activists who rallied for more than five hours.
The rally鈥檚 theme was 鈥渓ove not hate鈥.
The rally aimed to show solidarity for those who have received verbal abuse and suffered violence, particularly homosexual youths often targeted by the fringe Christians.
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) has slammed the Queensland Labor government over its decision to approve a 100% fly-in, fly-out workforce for the Caval Ridge coalmine near Moranbah, central Queensland.
The union has about 10,000 members in the state鈥檚 coalmines. It said it would fight the Bligh government's decision in the lead up to the Queensland election, due early next year.
鈥淲e will ensure our members and the communities they live in are not left behind,鈥 said CFMEU state secretary Jim Valery, the September 7 Courier Mail reported.
released the statement below on September 9.
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In August, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young wrote an in The Age arguing that 鈥渢he fight for marriage equality should be above party politics, which is a vital reason to give members of parliament a conscience vote on the matter鈥.
About 160 people gathered at The Gap State High School on September 8 for a community forum on the potential impacts of the coal seam gas industry.
Gubbi Gubbi elder Nurdon Serico gave a welcome to country, saying he had seen what mining can do to country and community, and highlighting that this industry will lead to the destruction of sacred Aboriginal sites as well as farming land.
The released the statement below on August 26. It was delivered by Ngarla Kunoth-Monks, CLC executive member, and Rob Roy, CLC member, at the 45th anniversary celebrations of the Wavehill walk-off at Kalkaringi, the Northern Territory.
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Kalkaringi, NT 鈥 We are the Central Land Council and we have been elected to speak for our Land, our Law and our Culture.
We demand that the government permits us to take the future in our hands.
The decision by leaders of the Sub Central of the Indigenous Territory and National Isiboro Secure Park (TIPNIS), to initiate a 500-kilometre protest march on Bolivia's capital of La Paz capital has ignited much debate about the nature of Bolivia鈥檚 first indigenous led-government.
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