For many years the Manningham council in Melbourne鈥檚 northeast, which consists of 10 suburbs, the largest being Doncaster and Templestowe, has been advocating for some form of mass rail transport.
Manningham is the only Melbourne metropolitan municipality without train or tram services. At the 2011 census, Manningham had a population of 111,300 people, 41% of whom are classified as low-income earners 鈥 a higher percentage than Melbourne鈥檚 average.
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Bernie Rosen really was a man for the people.
He battled for the rights of the exploited and oppressed, from being a teenager before WWII, right to the very end of his life.
I have a collection of letters from Bernie, each in his increasingly spindly handwriting and each packed in a little envelope. Every letter is an encouragement to his comrades to carry on the struggle and advice on how we should do so.
When the Murdoch-owned Australian starts attacking students who took to the streets on March 27 as part of the National Union of Students鈥 (NUS) protest for free education, it is evidence that student activism makes conservatives very nervous.
For anyone who knows the science, it鈥檚 settled 鈥 fossil fuels need to be banished fast from our energy mix. But how do we achieve it? Can we rely on renewable sources such as wind and solar? Or must humanity turn to nuclear power?
That鈥檚 a controversy that has bubbled away for years among people who all accept the dangers of global warming. Now, from the energy sector in China, there鈥檚 hard new evidence bearing on this debate.
The experience in China shows that as a way of quickly replacing greenhouse-polluting fuels, renewable energy wins against nuclear, hands down.
Socialist councillor Sam Wainwright has vowed to run a fierce campaign for the seat of Fremantle aimed at winning public support for confiscating the wealth of the mining billionaires and the big banks.
鈥淭he mining boom reveals starkly the manifest inequality of capitalism in Australia today,鈥 Wainwright told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
鈥淥n the one hand, we have Gina Rinehart 鈥 who has become the richest person in Australia 鈥 and on the other hand we have homeless people on the streets of Fremantle.
A capacity crowd of about 350 people filled the room for the opening night of the Marxism 2013 conference in Melbourne on March 28.
Sydney University staff have successfully shut down campus as part of their ongoing enterprise bargaining campaign today (March 26). The two-day strike, by members of the National Tertiary Education Union and Community and Public Sector Union, is continuing tomorrow.
The National Tertiary Education Union released this statement on March 7.
Lock the Gate have launched a new campaign that calls for national reforms on coal and gas ahead of the 2013 federal election. As part of the launch on March 7, members will be visiting every electorate office in the country. Our Call to Country Together, we share this one continent that holds us safe. An island home as vast as it is diverse, as wild as it is beautiful, from its red heart to its golden beaches. Our place of endless summers and easy laughter, of hard work and happy chances.
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