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Margaret Simons writes:

Amid all the hoopla about the skilled migration program and the Budget, another significant story has been buried.… Go to Article

Neanderthal Solar Policy in Sunshine State

NOT so Clean Energy Act –

Why the Solar Bonus Scheme will not work and Solutions

At 10pm on 14 May, 2008, after the Queensland Government gagged debate, the “Clean Energy Act” was passed in State Parliament.… Go to Article

11/5/08

Dear Member of Parliament

RE: Solar Bonus Scheme

The proposed Solar Bonus Scheme as outlined in the Premier’s speech in Hansard (11 March 2008 ) gave the community and the sustainable energy industry great hope that the government was genuine about supporting renewable energy.… Go to Article

12th May 2008: Union Members are advised that the Maritime Union of Australia will be holding a gathering

at the Wynnum-Manly Vikings Football Club

on Saturday 24th May

between 10:00am and 3:00pm

to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 1998 Patrick’s dispute.… Go to Article

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By Viola Wilkins

As well as Dave Kerin being hassled by the Workplace Ombudsman’s Office inquisition there are ongoing ABCC prosecutions.… Go to Article

4pm Thursday May 15

BRISBANE SQUARE

River end of Mall next to city library

15 May 2008 is the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe) – the day of the mass expulsion and the dispossession of the Palestinian people during the war which had broken out in Palestine.… Go to Article

Dear friends

I greet you with peace and God’s blessings and mercy.

Please find attached an invite to AMARAH’s May forum commemorating Al-Nakbah (60 years of ethnic cleansing in Palestine) with guest speaker Dr Halim Rane from Griffith University.… Go to Article

[ Editor’s Note: Pisht-Ashan (spelt in various ways) can be found in the northern corner of Iraq near the borders of Turkey and Iran.… Go to Article

Wherefore the Peace Movement — recollections of Talisman Sabre 07, and speculation about the state of the “peace” “movement”.

by Brian Law

Editor’s Note: This article takes up where “Peace Convergence” left off.… Go to Article

AS Australia totters on the brink of recession AND with the continuing decline in union struggle workers will assemble in union ranks on May Day 2008 facing a tough future.… Go to Article

Media Release 24/4/08

Canoeists and kayakers will converge on the Mary River this Sunday to mark the second anniversary of the announcement of the highly controversial proposal to dam the Mary River at Traveston Crossing.… Go to Article

I have just returned from the Northern Territory.

I want John Howard to explain why house to house raids without warrants are being conducted by the AFP in all the Alice Springs town camps.… Go to Article