Anti CSG mining petition handover at Parliament House, Sydney 22/11/11

Read My Lips

Waiting for the Premier

Where's Barry?

19th November 2011 Sydney Occupy Rally and March

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Occupy Laman Street - Court Victory for Save Our Figs

The judgement in the Land and Environment Court to grant an injunction saving Laman Street figs against an immmediate tree felling order upholds democratic rights:

Finally, the respondents submit that relief should be refused on discretionary grounds because (a) officers of the applicant were engaged in acts of civil disobedience by breaching exclusion zones and perimeter fencing;

If the first point is factually correct, I do not regard it as weighty. In a democracy, the Court should be slow to countenance refusing interlocutory relief to which an applicant is otherwise entitled because it engaged in peaceful protest in a context where a respondent arguably was behaving unlawfully in its administrative decision - making. (my emphasis more here)

Re-Occupy Sydney March and Rally 5th November

Sign of the Times

Eyes on the Prize

Size doesn't matter

more info at http://www.occupysydney.org.au/