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.
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University of Queensland (UQ) womens collective members discovered racist, sexist and homophobic messages covering the Womens Room on the morning of September 17.
Salisbury Council, in the northern suburbs, is a world leader in stormwater harvesting. It is on track to produce 20 gigalitres of water per annum by 2010, just short of 10% of Adelaide’s total water usage.
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.
The West Australian Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) is a growing cancer designed to drive renewable energy production to the fringes, a climate activist says.
Following a strike by Dandenong mail officers in June and an overnight picket by Union Solidarity in September, Australia Post has agreed to reinstate Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union delegate Hemma Lorenz to her original position. The campaign was triggered by Australia Posts decision to transfer Lorenz to a city facility.
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.
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.
Its hard to ignore a group of people dressed in mangy Koala suits outside NSW parliament house. Its more difficult to ignore the campaign for the protection of red gum forests, which is what the September 23 Wilderness Society protest drew attention to.
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.
“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.”
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.
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