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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Get involved in Refugee Week
Refugee Week is an opportunity to raise awareness about who refugees are, the challanges they face and the contributions they make to our community. The week runs from the 20th to the 26th of June and the theme for this year is Freedom …
Refugees Are Welcome Rally
Sunday June 20th 12 noon at the State Library, Swanston St Show your support for asylum seekers and refugees by joining the rally and march this Sunday on World Refugee Day. A broad coalition of individuals and groups, under the …
Anti-Poverty Week 2010 (17-23 October)
JustAct is once again getting behind Anti Poverty Week; it aims to: Strengthen public understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and hardship around the world and in Australia Encourages research, discussion and action to address these problems, including …
Harm Less Holidays
Your next holiday has the power to either exacerbate or reduce poverty. The way we travel has serious impacts on local people and the environment. Ethical tourism is where it’s at and our resident ethical tourism advocate, Rhonda Sutton has …
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TAFE fee system deters students
TAFE fee system deters students Natalie Craig Source: The Age 2 May 2010 Information from 100 submissions to an Ernst and Young review of the new TAFE fee system suggests that the increase in fees, and changes to fee structures, …
Problems with jewellery
There are a lot of problems with jewellery. There is good stuff going on, but there aren’t large amounts of good news. – Cameron Neil, from Fairtrade Labelling Australia and New Zealand (FTLANZ) commenting on the serious environmental and ethical …
Annette Groth on the massacre
I really hope that the Christian community and the World Council of Churches and others will really support us peace-loving people in the world to protest against this massacre and to really support our demands to lift the blockade to …
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Tagged Annette Groth, Gaza, Israeli security, Left Party, World Council of Churches
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Spicks and Specks – Features Squawkestra
Episode 18 of the popular show features American singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman, stand up comedian Craig Hill, musically diverse Bob Brozman, and Melbourne comedian Denise Scott. There is also a special performance by Squawkestra. For more info click here here. …
Spicks and Specks – Features Squawkestra
Episode 18 of the popular show features American singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman, stand up comedian Craig Hill, musically diverse Bob Brozman, and Melbourne comedian Denise Scott. There is also a special performance by Squawkestra. For more info click here here. …
Unclaimed government assistance and concession benefits
The current system of social support payments is fraught with disincentives. It is stigmatising, complicated and confusing. It forces people into a dehumanising system of hoops and mazes that challenges the logic of most people, let alone those facing an …
