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Australia Finally Puts a Price on Pollution
After years of bitter disagreement about climate change and putting a price on our pollution in order to protect the environment, Australia’s Senate passed the Government’s ‘Clean Energy Future’ legislation. Personally as someone…
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A benign occupation and the Lord Mayor
NOTE: This was first published on The Angle titled “ Some Thoughts on Occupy Melbourne “ The Occupy Melbourne movement is pretty much dead in my opinion. Though it really didn’t come alive as was promised. On Friday morning the police…
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Climate Action Within Reach
This week marked another historic step towards laying the foundations for action on climate change. Last month I posted about my support for the carbon price package and urged people that visit my blog to also get behind the package. Well now it starts…
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Fiji’s Military Regime Smashing Workers’ Rights
Fiji becoming hell for workers This post first appeared on theangle.org as “Fijian Workers Face Increasingly Worsening Situation” Workers in Fiji might come across as super-friendly and bursting with positive vibes and good will. The reality…
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Workers’ Rights In Retail And Fiji
This post was originally published at R@W News Blog on August 18 . In the past week and a half the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has launched a couple of new campaigns. These are both big campaigns and have a direct impact on working peoples&#…
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Libraries Essential Community Resource
Support Public Libraries The Victorian state government has been forced to defend its decision to trash the funding to the state’s public libraries. There are quite a few community organisations and non-government organisations that are expressing…
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Free Pollution Ride Coming To An End
The government finally announced its package to put a price on carbon pollution. Of course when people say carbon pollution, what they actually mean is greenhouse gas emissions. I for one am very happy to see the necessary steps being taken to reduce our…
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Finally Laying The Foundations For Climate Action
NOTE: This was originally published on the R@W News Blog as “Laying the foundations for climate action” Yesterday’s carbon price package announcement marked an historic moment in Australia’s sustainable future. It marked a…
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Container Deposit Laws Environmentally Sensible
In Australia there is only one state that allows people to return their drink containers to places of purchase for a refund and to have those drink containers recycled. It’s not Victoria either. Fortunately, there is another push by the Greens in…
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I’m saying YES to pricing carbon pollution
Say Yes Australia It will come as no surprise to anyone that knows me, or has read this blog for a long time or a short time that I am supporting Say Yes Australia and the national day of action on June 5. Say Yes Australia is a campaign to rally people…
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“It’s Going To Ruin Us” according to mining companies
The latest in the Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) debate is from the Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union (CFMEU), and produced by Manic Times Studios. Manic Times Studios has produced some excellent YouTube videos for progressive…
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The Outbreak Of Self Immolating Republicans
To set up a wave election you need a compelling national reason to fire the party in control of the Congress. Republicans have been looking for anything to make this happen. They believed that the Health Insurance Reform bill would be the ticket, however,…
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It’s time to put something back
This video is a beginning to the counter-strike, launched by the Australian Workers' Union, against the resources sector scare campaign.
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Tech4Change: Giving voice to the experience of poverty and change
This piece in support of ActionAid Australia's Project TOTO latest initiative Tech4Change Blog Day action. I've written a lot about technology and how it can be used for social and progressive change.
Tony Abbott Will Bring Back WorkChoices
The latest advertisement from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).
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Ward Exceeds Over 100 Online Donors
via Cam Ward
Rep. Cam Ward exceeded his goal of raising over 100 online donation for the month of September.
Net filtering and ECD
Late last week there was a great story about anonymous online activists using electronic civil disobedience (ECD) to express their outrage at the continued effort to censor the Internet by Australian Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy and the…
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Queensland’s Stolen Wages
Now this isn't the first time I've blogged about stolen wages, and you can rest assured knowing it won't be the last time either. On this particular occasion it's the issue of Queensland's stolen wages. Just to fill you in; in 2002, former Premier…
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International Youth Day
There are many things in the world that tend to be over looked far too often in debates surrounding climate change. One of those things are young people. It might sound like a cliche but young people are the future and we are the custodians of their…
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Indigenous health is a priority issue
The Close the Gap Campaign has welcomed release of the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission (NHHRC) Report and its recognition of Indigenous health as a priority issue.
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