Collectives in the Australian Student Environment Network have been busy across the continent – check out the latest happenings below!
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News
Jul 23
SEAN trip to SOS
Here’s a little happy-snap from the train trip on the way back from SOS, held in Adelaide this year.
In 2011, SOS will be held in either Albury or Sydney. Stay tuned!
Jul 15
SEAN finances update
I’ve put together this finance update for SEAN (the NSW student enviro network) to cover the first half of this year. If you have any questions, please email me.
Our opening balance was $4161.08. Our current balance is $4129.64. This means so far we’re down $31.44. We also have some expected income/expenditure which might change this.
| Item | Income | Expenditure |
| SOS | ||
| Rego and transport fees | $11169 | |
| ASEN membership fees | $120 | -$120 |
| SOS rego | -$3380 | |
| Train tickets | -$7590 | |
| Bus | -$1000 | |
| Bus food | -$300 | |
| Train food | -$50 | |
| Indigenous elders’ travel costs | -$100 | |
| Ann-Marie UTS donation | $150 | |
| SUBTOTAL | -$1101 | |
| Fundraising | ||
| ASEN dinners donations x2, film nights x3 | $445.50 | |
| Selling bikes | $250 | -$60.40 |
| SUBTOTAL | $189.60 | |
| Trainings | ||
| SEAN gig donations for food | $167 | |
| SEAN gig food | -$365.35 | |
| Renewables training food | -$112.25 | |
| ASEN training grant | $997.95 | |
| Trainer fees | -$50 | |
| SUBTOTAL | $637.35 | |
| Miscellaneous | ||
| Rivers SOS membership | -$20 | |
| Replacement welder for Holly | -$182.99 | |
| Interest | $0.10 | |
| SUBTOTAL | -$202.89 | |
| GROSS INCOME/EXPENDITURE |
$13299.55 | -$13330.99 |
| NET INCOME/EXPENDITURE | -$31.44 |
This isn’t the whole story, because there are some sources of income and expenditure we’re expecting: at least $2000 in registration and transport payments, plus between $0 and $3900 in donations from collectives. Also, we spent slightly more than we budgeted on food ($312 instead of $300), and more on petrol than we expected ($1200 instead of $1000). We also hadn’t budgeted to pay for the bus driver’s rego, which we did pay ($120). Updates will be posted as SEAN meetings confirm whether we are indeed receiving/spending this money.
Jul 14
Public Forum: 3376km: a long haul for nuclear waste
Public meeting, photo exhibition and film screening of “Muckaty Voices”
For the last four years, Traditional Owners of Manuwangku (Muckaty) have been speaking out against federal government plans for a radioactive waste dump on their country, 120 km north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.
In late July a group of senior men and women from Muckaty will travel to Sydney and Wollongong to hold public meetings and meet with trade unions and other supporters.
These meetings will also launch the 2010 Nuclear Freeways project, a joint endeavour of Friends of the Earth Sydney and Melbourne. The project is part of the broader campaign to prevent the federal government imposing a nuclear waste dump on unwilling communities in the Northern Territory. The project is focussed on supporting communities along potential transport routes between the main waste producer – the Lucas Heights nuclear plant in Sydney – and the NT.
Speakers include:
Muckaty Traditional Owners Dianne Stokes and Mark Lane
Fire Brigade Employees’ Union NSW Secretary Jim Casey
Human Rights Lawyer George Newhouse
Sydney Public Forum
Wollongong Public Forum
