LL:DDV: electricity forum
Forum Energy Discovery Day 2 hosted by rank file members of Labor and Liberal Party "Do your lights flicker on and off as your electricity bills rise? Saturday 1st July 2000 NTEU building 120 Clarendon St South Melbourne 9.45am - 1.00pm Speakers: Andrea Sharam - Customer Casualties=20 Graham Watson -The Maintenance Myth Dave Kerin - Sustainable energy Alternatives Diane anderson- Electricity Privatisation: A Social Justice = Perspective RSVP Diane anderson PO Box 1081 Camberwell 3184 TEl 9808 3037 LL.VG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: What's On at the VWT
Victorian Aboriginal Women's Awards 2000 - "To Acknowledge and celebrate the positive contribution of women to Aboriginal community life". During NAIDOC week, Indigenous and non-Indigenous women will join together to recognise the achievements of Victorian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in a celebratory luncheon and Awards Ceremony to be held on Thursday, 6 July 2000, at the Hotel Sofitel, 25 Collins Street Melbourne. To make your booking for the Luncheon and Awards Ceremony call the Victorian Women's Trust on 9642 0422. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - VWT Raffle 2000 If you thought last years odds (25/1) of winning a prize were good, then prepare yourself. This year there are 30 sensational prizes to be won and only 600 tickets to be sold. This gives you a one-in-twenty chance of winning! Prizes range in price from $50- $600 and include the following: shibui - cut and colour to the value of $120 Savoy Park Plaza International - one night's accommodation for two persons Peter Alexander Sleepwear - Pyjamas and matching suede slippers valued at $90 Redken L'Oreal gift packs - Valued at $150 each Scanlon Theodore $100 gift voucher Ladyworks Fitness Club VIP membership package valued at $598 In Essence Aromatherapy Pamper Package valued at $156 Adelphi Hotel full year membership valued at $300 Laura Ashley king size bed cover valued at $129 Park Hyatt dinner for two to the value of $100 Ticket Prices - $15 for one or two for $20. The draw takes place on Monday 14th August 2000 at 12 noon. To be in the running please email or fax (03) 9642 0016 credit card details to the Victorian Women's Trust ASAP. LL.VG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Forum: World without money
(FREE) Public Forum Friday 15th September, 6-9pm, Swanston Hall, Melbourne Town Hall. After the world economic summit- do we need an economy? "couldn't we live perfectly well without money?" Email Andy Blunden [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further details. Swanston Hall, Melbourne Town Hall 6pm to 9pm Friday 15th September Admission is free. Light refreshments from 5:30pm. There will be no long speeches - the speakers will propose that we can all live perfectly well without money or an economy, and in fact life would boom, and you are invited to challenge the speakers to prove it, or if you are not so sceptical, to discuss how we could get to such a world. http://home.mira.net/~andy/seminars/no_money.htm LL.VI -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:PR: what's on earth matters this week
EARTH MATTERS can be heard on 3CR in Melbourne Sunday 11am, 2XX Canberra Tuesday 10am, 8CCC Alice Springs Sundays between 8-9pm, 2NCR Lismore Friday 10am, 5UV Adelaide Thursday 2pm, 7LTN Launceston Monday 7:30pm, 2VOX Wollongong between 9-10am much more!! Earth Matters Program 103b Juliet Fox 3CR Community Radio 03 9419 8377 ComRadSat Program 30/6/2000 INTRO : "Hello and welcome to =85" OUTRO : "... see you then." DURATION : 27'15" (frogs til 28'15") Federal Renewable Energy Bill With climate change and an every decreasing pool of non-renewable resources, there is clearly a need for Australian society to move away from their dependence on fossil fuels as the primary energy source. The Federal Government's Renewable Energy Bill goes a small way to achieving this, but it's not without its problems.=20 For example, just what is considered a renewable energy resource? Is it just wind, water and sunshine, or is it also our native forests? Libby Anthony is the general manager of the Alternative Technology Assocation, and today she joins Earth Matters where she begins by outlining the content of the current Renewable Energy Bill. (Contact details: Alternative Technology Association 03 9388 9311, www.ata.org.au) IN: "Yes well the Renewable Energy =85" OUT: " =85=20 DUR: 11'30 The Solar Sailer Well while the energy sector is being forced to move just slightly away from fossil fuel dependency with the Renewable Energy Bill, others are are moving ahead independently with innovations that remove the need for polluting fossil fuels. One such person is Robert Dane, the inventor of the Solar Sailer a large boat set to be used as a commercial ferry service on Sydney Harbour. Jim Beatson spoke to Robert Dane, who begins by describing the Solar Sailer. IN: "Well it's a =85" OUT: "=85 burnt fossil fuel." DUR: 10'10" -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDS: SA women: World March of Women local organising work
Dear all, South Australian women are invited to a meeting of the local group to organise the World March of Women event in Adelaide for Saturday October 7th 2000. The World March of Women in the Year 2000 is a seven-month community awareness event involving women in 155 countries around the world. Its aims are: the elimination of poverty worldwide, greater equity in the sharing of wealth between women and men; and the elimination of violence against women. The World March of Women was launched internationally on International Women's Day this year and will conclude with a world rally in New York on October 17th, (International Day for the Elimination of Poverty) when millions of cards from people around the world will be presented to secretary general Kofi Annan at United Nations headquarters. In addition, there will be a mass rally in Washington outside the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on October 15th. The first local meeting for organising the Adelaide event will be held on Thursday 13th July at 11 am at 5 Hutt Street, Adelaide. Can you please pass this on to any women who agree with the aims of the World March of Women and who would like to help with the work? Many thanks and all the best, Cathy Picone LL.SG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:INFO: Protesting the Olympics - in support of Indigenous rights
Dear Friends, You are invited to become involved in the Anti-Olympic Alliance. The Anti-Olympics Alliance is a newly formed activist group made of community, student and progressive forces, such as Rentwatchers, the Indigenous Student Network, Justice Action and many others. The Alliance works in conjunction and solidarity with Indigenous groups and organisations, such as the Metropolitan Land Council and is active in organising protests (for more details see below) and events to highlight the negative impact of the Olympic Games, as well as racism and social injustice in Sydney and Australia. Some of the issues the Alliance is seeking to highlight are: · For the Redfern Koori Community, the Olympics means forced relocation. · Indigenous Australians are still the most socially and economically disadvantaged section of the Australian community, with Indigenous adults dying 20 years younger than other Australians, and a child mortality rate 3 times higher than non-Indigenous children. · While the NSW government has spent over $2 and half billion on the Olympics, there has been massive cuts to public hospital, public education, childcare and social welfare spending. Government priorities are for increasing profits to big business, increasing the divide between rich and poor. · There are 30,000 homeless people in the greater Sydney area per night, a number that will be exacerbated by the Olympics. Sydney has a 9-year waiting list for public housing. · It is estimated that there will be in excess of 50,000 police and security forces used at the Olympics, including over 30,000 security guards, 4000 Australian military (the same size of the Australian force sent to East Timor), as well as American and Israeli intelligence and security forces. · The NSW government has passed laws making Sydney and NSW an "Olympic police state" with these laws designed to curtail and stop legitimate protest and dissent. Under these new laws, "authorised officers" with little security training can use force to remove you, without giving a reason or producing identification (unless requested), can issue a $200 on the spot fine and search your property and bags without reason. OPENING CEREMONY PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF INDIGENOUS RIGHTS The primary focus of the Alliance is to organise for the demonstration which will take place on the opening day of the 2000 Olympics - Friday, September 15, 2000, in support of Indigenous rights and social justice issues effecting all Australians. The Alliance invites all interested parties - community groups, unions, social justice and progressive organisations, churches and student organisations - to get involved, by either attending our meeting and helping to organise the demonstration, commit a contingent to participate in the demonstration, and/or to make a donation of resources or financial assistance to the Alliance. The September 15 demonstration is being organised separately, but in consultation and solidarity with Indigenous groups - with the logistics of the action being decided in conjunction with Indigenous groups. A second focus of the Alliance is to build other anti-Olympic related events in the lead up to September 15. This will provide an opportunity to coordinate with other groups and to publicise the September 15 actions, as well as highlight other social justice issues related to the Olympics. These include violation of civil liberties as a result of increased police and Olympic security powers which restrict freedom of movement and the right to protest, the prioritisation of Olympic spending over on public housing, health and education. For more information on how to become involved with the Alliance and/or to register your interest in attending the September 15 rally and march please reply by email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEXT MEETING: The next meeting of the Anti-Olympic Alliance is: Wednesday, 12 July, 2000 at 6pm Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. ANTI-OLYMPIC ALLIANCE LAUNCH The Alliance will be hosting a public forum to highlight its activities on Friday, July 21 (venue to confirmed). ALL WELCOME. EMAIL DISCUSSION LIST: Through the 'olympic-link e group'. To get on this group join by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note: the 'olympic-link egroup' is an information network for people who want to be informed of Olympic related events and as such is used by a wide variety of groups and individuals, including the Anti-Olympic Alliance. Yours sincerely, Kim Bullimore On behalf of the Anti-Olympic Alliance Networking Committee. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:PR: Stolen Generations 2/07/00
- THIS WEEK On ABC Radio National's investigative documentary program, Background Briefing: - Sunday July 2, 9.10am Repeated Tuesday July 4, 7.10pm and Wednesday, July 5, 4.00am. - "Stolen Generations" Produced by Tom Morton - There's a great battle playing out...and the territory is no less than the history of Australia. Documents, records, evidence of all kinds are being re-read, re-evalauated in the cut and thrust of pure politics. Were Aboriginal children stolen? It's no arcane, academic matter. There's a lot at stake - the law, national identity, land, votes - and money. PRODUCER'S SUPPLEMENT: On BB this week we're digging in the buried country of our history. The Federal Government says there never was a 'stolen generation'; and it's spending millions of dollars fighting compensation claims by members of the stolen generations in the courts. It claims the evidence that indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families is 'only anecdotal'; How does these claims square with the hundreds of personal testimonies collected by the Bringing them Home Inquiry? or with many years of research by historians around Australia? - research which uncovered systematic government policies ofremoving indigenous children. A program about the living memory of our nation. LAST WEEK ON BB (18/06/00): "The Courage of our Convictions - The Claremont Serial Killer" Produced by Gerald Tooth Program transcript online Thursday afternoon - OUR NEXT WEB FORUM: Is this the end of music as we know it? Join ABC DJ, Tim Ritchie, as he investigates... There'll be a LIVE WEB FORUM after the program with special guests, including industry professionals and musicians on the ground... Log on at http://abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing on Sunday July 9 at 10am to participate. Stay tuned for more details... LAST WEB FORUM: "Call Centres: The Nerve Centres of Business" Special web feature, with links and web forum (now archived for reference) are online at http://abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/specials/callcent/default.htm HAVE YOU VISITED OUR ONLINE GUESTBOOK? We welcome your feedback on any of our programs. You can post your comments to our online guestbook at http://abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/guestbk/guestbk.htm .. Background Briefing on ABC Radio National GPO Box 9994 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61-2-9333-1400 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. Subscribe or signoff to our updates email list by: Sending an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBSCRIBE BBANNOUNCE (in the body not 'subject' of message), or SIGNOFF BBANNOUNCE (in the body not 'subject' of message) Visit http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/bbmail.htm for further instructions. .. Transcripts of BB: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing Tuning into Radio National all over Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/freq/map.htm -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
Conference Invitation
UNCHAIN MY MIND FORUM New social-democratic ideas for Labor in government A curtain-raiser forum for the ALP Federal Conference, jointly organised by the Australian Fabian Society and Pluto Press Australia. When: Thursday, 27 July, 9:30am to 6.00pm Where: Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Lygon Streets, Carlton, Melbourne - Council Chambers Cost: $25 or $15 concession Chaired in three sessions by ALP veterans Barry Jones, Joan Kirner (tbc) and John Button. Speakers include Lindsay Tanner, Mark Latham, Rebecca Huntley, Paul Mees, Glenn Patmore, Andrew Scott, Guy Rundle, Sharan Burrows, Kate Lundy, Julia Gillard, Race Mathews, McKenzie Wark and Mary Kalantzis. Dinner and debate to follow the forum About the Unchain My Mind Forum On the eve of the national conference of the Australian Labor Party in Hobart many of Labor's foremost thinkers and activists are gathering in Melbourne to present new ideas for Labor in power. Specifically, speakers will be discussing new policy agendas for a twenty-first century Federal Labor government, and vital reforms to party structure to enhance membership, internal democracy and policy-making. A strong emphasis is on a younger generation of Labor men and women keen to promote new ways of achieving social democracy in a time of rapid change. A critical perspective unites the forum speakers. Topics to be discussed include trade, globalisation, work place democracy, education, managing cultural diversity, the media and the new information economy, indigenous land rights, unions, party structures, unemployment and foreign policy. Expect a rigorous critique of orthodox economic ideas of both the right and the left, and new left-of-centre perspectives on public institutions that may no longer be meeting the objectives for which they were established. Speakers will be encouraged to sketch alternative models of governance which might better achieve traditional social democratic goals. The aim of the Unchain My Mind Forum is to promote critical thinking, open dialogue and audience participation. A must-attend event for anyone interested in political reform, government, social change and Labor's future. All welcome! Book now! Four easy ways to book: 1. Print out the registration form and fax to: (02) 9519 8940 2. Mail the form to: Tony Moore, Pluto Press Australia, Locked Bag 199, Annandale NSW 2038 3. E-mail the form to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. Telephone Pluto Press Australia on: (02) 9519 3299 Registration form Name: Address: State: Postcode: Tel: E-mail: Please reserve me [box] seats at the Unchain My Mind Forum - please indicate: [box] $25 full price [box] $15 concession Total payment $[box] [box] I have enclosed a cheque made out to Pluto Press Australia [box] Please debit my credit card - circle card: Mastercard Visa Bankcard Amex Card no.: Expiry date: Signature: Dr Race Mathews, Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Management in Government, Monash University/MountEliza School of Business and Government. Postal Address: 123 Alexanda Avenue, South Yarra, Vic, 3141, Australia. Phone/Fax: (03) 9826 0104. LL.VG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
