Police have not responded to a petition Taser victim Sheila Oakley handed to them a week ago. In response, a community assembly was held outside Logan police station on February 22.
Oakley was in hospital and could not attend the rally. Paul Butterworth, an Aboriginal elder who had called the assembly, told the crowd: 鈥淲e will keep coming back until something鈥檚 done about this.鈥
He also said harassment of the local community continued, including children in Oakley鈥檚 family. Oakley鈥檚 brother expressed his thanks for the support they were receiving.
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鈥淵ou don't want a wimp running border protection,鈥 Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on February 21. 鈥淵ou want someone who is strong, who is decent, and Scott Morrison is both strong and decent.鈥
About 140 people attended Manningham City Council鈥檚 forum on February 20 to hear speakers discuss the case for a railway line to Doncaster, Victoria.
Members of the Socialist Alliance have taken part in O-week stalls, which is not only resulting in a boost for 麻豆传媒 Weekly sales and subscriptions in the lead up to its 1000th issue, but also a boost for the Socialist Alliance and Resistance.
An anonymous post to the Facebook group 鈥淧arenting Payments for Parents 鈥 not Newstart鈥 (PPPNN) on February 26 read: 鈥淚t鈥檚 been a very long, long, tiring road with no help from police regarding the violence ... I am now settled in a new private rental of $355 a week but I just can鈥檛 get back on track 鈥 I can鈥檛 put food on the table or nappies on my children鈥檚 bottoms this week.
For Neville Cunningham
You walk, you walk,
You turn a corner and walk some more
The sun might be there
Some cloud also welcome
But you are always invited
Into the house of the beekeeper.
You will know it when you arrive
Usually an afternoon of daylight
Will warm those neighbourhood bricks
You will feel it on your right cheek!
You鈥檒l know you鈥檝e arrived:
A poster of Ned Kelly hangs in his window
The front door is always open when he鈥檚 in
And you can go in once you tap on the screen door.
He鈥檒l be reading a book on his thin mattress
A historic motion for Ballarat was put forth to affirm support for a 鈥淣o to Homophobia鈥 campaign at a City of Ballarat council meeting on Febraury 12. The motion was carried unanimously.
Greens councillor Belinda Coates put the motion. She said after the meeting: 鈥淚t was fantastic to get unanimous support for this motion to affirm support for the 'No to Homophobia' campaign and their 'Promise' campaign.
Well the fun just never stops, does it, when it comes to the Abbott government鈥檚 asylum seeker policies, or as they call it, 鈥渂order protection鈥. Because when it comes to needing protection, fleeing war, torture and genocide is one thing, but won鈥檛 someone think of all the poor, downtrodden borders?
The armed group Basque Country And Freedom (ETA has made a significant step towards decommissioning the weapons used in its campaign for independence and freedom, Irish Republican News said on February 21. But the Spanish government immediately rejected the move.
The decommissioning by ETA of some its cache of weapons and explosives, drawing a definitive line under decades of bloody conflict, was confirmed by an International Verification Commission.
The police had, writes David Marr in his September 2013 Quarterly Essay on paedophile priests in the Catholic Church in Australia, 鈥渧igorously, for a very long time, protected the church鈥. This, says Marr, left the clergy鈥檚 sex crimes to be looked after in-house.
Millions of dollars worth of damages to public property may have been caused by a wave of violence across Venezuela, according to government sources. The assessment comes after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called for a 鈥淣ational Peace Conference鈥 as a means of resolving the on-going violent opposition protests in Venezuela.
In response to the violence instigated by the Venezuelan elite, the working classes of Venezuela took to the streets this week.
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