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Rinehart’s control

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has just bought a major stake in Fairfax media — in a bid that could turn The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald into mouthpieces for climate denial to protect her mining interests. But together we can foil her plan. Rinehart has already bought Channel Ten’s agenda — and Australia’s ownership [...]

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Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra against the ‘Second Intervention

Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra criticises Gillard’s ‘Second Intervention’ otherwise known as ‘Stronger Futures in the NT’, a new Commonwealth Government initiative from Minister Macklin that maintains key racists powers introduced through Howard’s NT Intervention. Dr Gondarra is a Senior Elder from Elcho Island. This message was screened in Sydney on Saturday December 3, at a [...]

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Rich schools to get more?

Outlandish Funding Bonanza for Private Schools ‘A report published today by the public education advocacy group, Save Our Schools, finds that two voucher models of school funding proposed to the Gonski Review would deliver billions of dollars in additional funding for private schools and no increases for government schools. Trevor Cobbold, author of the report [...]

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Troops out of Afghanistan

Send letter to delegates at ALP conference http://stopwarcoalition.org/sign-on-letter-to-pm-julia-gillard-troops-out-of-afghanistan/

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November 15 day of action for public schools

Tuesday 15 November teachers and parents campaign for public schools On this day we are asking people to take a few moments to send a message to the head of the federal funding review about the importance of investing more in public schools. It’s your last chance to have a say before the education review [...]

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A national land tax?

A national land tax? by Frank Stillwell The system of taxation needs to focus on assets, not merely on incomes and expenditures. It is asset price inflation that has been a major element in growing inequalities of wealth in Australia, particularly during the last two decades. Ownership of landed property has been central to this [...]

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BlackRock Inc and powerful corporations

The financialisation of global ownership by David Peetz and Georgina Murray Griffith University “We sociologically investigate how deeply embedded finance capital is within very large global corporations, by asking the following questions: Is ownership of very large global corporations dispersed amongst a wide variety of individuals, families and shareholder types? Or are there common patterns [...]

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Education review

Key Challenges for the Funding Review From the AEU A new report highlights the six key challenges that must be addressed by the expert panel conducting the funding review. The Real Reform report by funding expert Dr Jim McMorrow says the funding review and the Government’s response to it early next year was critical and [...]

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Occupy…

Occupy Wall Street…What follows is a collective statement of the protesters in Zuccotti Park: As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know [...]

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