Australia witnessed incredible images last Friday (20 September 2019), as hundreds of thousands joined activities in 110 cities and towns across Australia, joining the mass of school students who skipped class to join the strike4Climate, and to demand immediate and serious action on the climate crisis. Continue reading Success of Climate Strike could be beginning of a big change→
A brief outline of some of the new government bill’s changes, showing the intention is to spread it from First Nations people to all Australians on Centrelink payments, covering the unemployed, and including including those on disability, single parents and age pensioners.
Get along to your local Climate Strike this Friday 20 September.
Led by the school kids and supported by others, events are going to take place in more than 140 locations around Australia and in 120 countries. Join yours, from 12 am to 2 pm. Go this link for the the main places and times.
Just about everyone is talking about the dark economic clouds on the horizon. The numbers and politics don’t look good. The only certainty is that both the global and Australian economies are becoming increasingly unstable. Continue reading The truth about unemployment in Australia must be told→
They began to arrive at the Swanston Street-Flinders Street intersection, out the front of Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street Station, at midday on Saturday (14 September). More were congregating at the edge of Princess Bridge, on the other side of the station. A third group was forming at the other end of the same bridge, near the Melbourne concert Hall. Continue reading Extinction Rebellion wins a major victory on Melbourne’s Princes Bridge→
When a society experiences a dramatic rise in suicides in a short time something is seriously wrong. This is Australia. New research has found that the number of people ending their own life is rapidly on the rise and on track to grow by 40 percent in a decade. Continue reading Suicide growth rate is a serious problem for Australia→