University of Queensland (UQ) womens collective members discovered racist, sexist and homophobic messages covering the Womens Room on the morning of September 17.
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On September 17, the Uber Bar in Brisbane announced a new policy of refusing entry to high-profile sports players. According to the owner, Jim Davies, the ban was imposed following numerous incidents widely reported in the media.
The West Australian Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) is a growing cancer designed to drive renewable energy production to the fringes, a climate activist says.
We need a council that stands up for residents against greedy developers and the anti-people policies of the state and federal governments, Vannessa Hearman, a Socialist Alliance candidate for South Ward in the Moreland Council election on November 29, told Green Left Weekly.
In an open letter to the national and international community written from prison, Colombian trade union and human rights activist Liliana Obando denounced the governments unprecedented new witch-hunt against the political opposition in Colombia.
On September 17, federal IR minister Julia Gillard unveiled Labors new industrial relations system based on the IR policy it took to the federal election, Forward with Fairness (FwF). But rather than tear up Work Choices, Labors pre-election promise, its replacement IR system largely preserves it.
We need a genuine peoples movement like this planet has never seen, Friends of the Earths Dr John Mackenzie told the launch of Climate Emergency Week at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) on September 22. We need a global movement that will make the sixties look like a rehearsal!
A dangerous precedent for an ambiguous anti-terrorism law has been set by the conviction of a majority of the 12 Melbourne Muslim men accused of constituting a terrorist cell. Almost all the charges were based on a law that turned on the definition of a terrorist organisation.
“Rich people got it good in this country”, said African-American comedian Wanda Sykes on the September 24 Tonight Show with Jay Leno. “We refuse to let them not be rich. Think about it. Broke people are about to bailout rich people. This is what is going on.”
Save the Tamil children in Sri Lanka; Cricket Australia dont play cricket in the Tamil killing field; Mr Rudd <197< condemn Sri Lanka for breaking the peace accords. These were some of the messages on placards and banners held at a picket of PM Kevin Rudds Morningside office on September 23.
On September 24, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert tabled legislation that would establish a fund to compensate members and families of the Stolen Generations, but the Rudd Labor government is unlikely to support it.
Dear Professor Garnaut,
In your recent letter to scientists and environmental groups, you asked for further input into your final report on the question of the 450ppm target and “overshoot”, and Australia’s position given the uncertainties about the outcome of future global negotiations.
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