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In Search of Bony β Explores how Arthur Upfield came to create the unique and highly controversial fictional hero, Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte. SBS1, Friday, June 26, 2.30pm.
Message Stick: Intervention β Two years ago, the Howard
Jess Moore, Socialist Alliance member and national coordinator of Resistance, gave the following speech to the June 13 Wollongong Climate Emergency Rally.
In January 2008, in Western Australia, Aboriginal elder, highly respected community leader and grandfather Mr Ward died of heatstroke in an oven-hot prison van driven by employees of prisons operator Global Solutions Ltd, now taken over by Group 4 Securitas (G4S).
Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim introduced a private members bill on May 26. If passed, it will legalise euthanasia in the state.
The NSW budget was handed down on June 16. NSW state treasurer Eric Roozendaal tried to spin it as a Βbeacon of hopeΒ for the state.
One hundred New South Wales TAFE teachers packed the hall outside Wollongong Labor MP Noreen HayΒs office on June 17 to reject new plans from the Department of Education and Training (DET) to change TAFE teachers conditions.
Citing the dubious need for Queensland to keep its AAA credit rating, on June 2 Premier Anna Bligh announced the state would sell off $15 billion of public assets.
Climate activists in Newcastle, already the worldΒs biggest coal port, have been campaigning to stop a planned upgrade. The upgrade will double the portΒs coal export capacity and worsen climate change, they say.
βSome may be disappointed in some parts of this billβ, deputy prime minister and workplace relations minister Julia Gillard told parliament on June 17.
βTasers are not the βnon-lethalβ weapons the QPS [Queensland Police Service] leadership claimsβ, former state MP and former police officer Peter Pyke told the media in April. He predicted a Queenslander would die in 2009 from a Taser.
A seminar at NSW Parliament House on June 16 discussed the current dire situation for Tamils in Sri Lanka and the need for the Rudd Labor government to step up and help protect human rights there.
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