Students will vote on proposed amendments to the University of South Australia's (UniSA) UniLife constitution from August 27 to September 3. UniLife provides various amenities to UniSA students and is run by an elected student board.
Over the past nine months, the board has redrafted constitutional amendments 14 times. But the drafts were withheld from the wider student body until the board called a snap referendum on the amendments with a weeks鈥 notice.
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1. Set immediate emission cut targets to reduce net emissions to zero as soon as possible, including a target to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2020. Introduce emissions reduction targets of at least 5% a year.
2. Begin new international treaty negotiations aimed to get all countries to agree on a global target of at least 90% emissions cuts on 1990 levels by 2030. Make cutting rich industrial nations鈥 emissions a priority, and increase aid to poorer countries to help them to use clean energy for their development.
The and the released the statement below on August 8.
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The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) and the Environment Centre NT are calling for a moratorium on approvals for non-conventional gas extraction and fracking while the review of the NT Water Act is underway.
In recent months, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has taken to highlighting the role of state electricity utilities in pushing up power prices. Average power bills have been rising rapidly 鈥 69% over four years in NSW.
A small but vocal group of people gathered outside the Land and Environment Court in Sydney on August 20 to protest against Rio Tinto鈥檚 plans to extend its Mount Thorley Warkworth coalmine near Bulga, in Singleton Shire in the NSW Hunter Valley.
The protesters held banners saying 鈥淒on鈥檛 bugger Bulga鈥, 鈥淪top coal and gas destroying NSW鈥 and 鈥淪ave the Warkworth Sands Woodlands鈥, while they chanted slogans such as 鈥淩ack off Rio Tinto.鈥
OK, nobody panic or anything, but it seems another key plank in Gina Rinehart's plot to destroy the Earth has been given the green light. and rail project in central Queensland has been granted federal government approval, ABC.net.au said on August 23.
on August 24.
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The Refugee Action Coalition has welcomed the government鈥檚 announcement to immediately increase Australia鈥檚 refugee intake to 20,000. But the government could and should have increased the intake without re-opening Nauru.
鈥淭he bitter pill of violating refugee rights on Nauru is not going to be sweetened by increasing Australia鈥檚 overall intake,鈥 said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.
Telstra sends jobs offshore
Regional communities are furious at . Last year,
Local councils say the 126 job cuts in Townsville and 116 job cuts at Lismore will devastate communities there.
Five words sum up federal opposition leader Tony Abbott's response to some sharp questions put to him by journalist Leigh Sales in the August 22 episode of ABC TV's 7.30: Liar, liar, pants on fire!
If you need a good example of a person with a chronic disposition to lie, this is it. Read the , then imagine the same interview 鈥 except conducted after Abbott was given a dose of truth serum.
Perhaps it would go something like this.
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The independent Gonski review, commissioned by the federal government into school funding, was released in February. It concluded that Australia is investing far too little in education and that in our wealthy country there are many schools that are underprivileged.
It also concluded that our education system is not fair 鈥 that our school system is stacked against the disadvantaged, while it gives the most privileged the most advantages.
Has the internet turned activists into "slacktivists"? It's just one of the questions posed on Smokey鈥檚 Haunt, the new album by the persistently provocative Urthboy.
The personal saga of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been used to overshadow the ground-breaking journalism of WikiLeaks in exposing the secrets of governments and corporations around the world.
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