Ahead of United States President Barack Obama's historic visit to Cuba on March 20 鈥 making him the first sitting US head of state to visit the island in 88 years 鈥 Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez called for an end to the 55-year-long US blockade.
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Amnesty International Western Sydney University students hosted a forum at the Parramatta campus on March 15. Speakers included James Arvanitakis, Debra Keenahan, Luce De Buitleir Andrews and Sev Ozdowski.
Keenahan spoke about how refugees had become 鈥渄ehumanised鈥 since former PM John Howard said: 鈥淲e will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come鈥.
Under the cover of thick clouds and blinding sun, a drone assignation takes place in the Middle East. Interception of internet messages leads US authorities to a 16-year-old Anonymous group member.
Yingiya Mark Guyula, a spokesperson for the Yolngu Nations Assembly, will stand as an independent candidate for the seat of Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory elections in August.
He kicked off a national Treaty awareness and fundraising speaking tour with a meeting in Darwin on March 7, before speaking in Adelaide, Geelong, Melbourne and Sydney. He spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Peter Robson in Darwin and Zebedee Parkes in Sydney.
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Experts have laughed at a prediction by the environment minister Greg Hunt that Australia鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions peaked 10 years ago.
Hunt told the ABC鈥檚 AM program: 鈥淚 believe that we have reached what is sometimes known as peak emissions. In my best judgment 鈥 we reached peak emissions in 2005-06 ... and the course of history to come for Australia is that we will continue to be below that figure.鈥
Experts have laughed at a prediction by the environment minister Greg Hunt that Australia's greenhouse gas emissions peaked 10 years ago.
Sharlene Leroy-Dyer, a descendant of the Guringai, Gadigal, Wiradjuri and Dharug peoples of NSW and National Councillor in the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), has been preselected for the Socialist Alliance's NSW Senate ticket for the next federal election. The ticket is headed by militant Aboriginal activist and writer Ken Canning. Peter Boyle interviewed Leroy-Dyer for 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
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The federal government continues to drag its feet on marriage equality. It is now clear that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will not initiate a marriage equality plebiscite before the end of the year, as promised.
LGBTI community organisations are increasingly losing patience with delays and broken promises. Australian Marriage Equality national director Rodney Croome described a plebiscite as 鈥渁n incredibly costly and harmful opinion poll鈥, after PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimated it would cost $525 million.
During the early days of his campaign to be US president, Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders wondered if the crowds that he saw on the street were headed to a baseball game, only to be told: 鈥淎ctually they are on the way to hear you鈥.
This story illustrates how the Sanders message of free education, affordable health care, a $15 minimum wage, taxing the mega-rich and support for renewable energy has taken off.
Young Americans 鈥 the millennials 鈥 facing unpayable student debts, unaffordable health care, low wages and climate change inaction, are flocking to his campaign.
It was standing room only at the Men Speak Out For Treaty forum held in the Redfern Community Centre on March 14 organised by the Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney. The meeting was facilitated by journalist and filmmaker Jeff McMullen.
Wiri Man Tony McAvoy argued that a treaty would settle past injustices and build a better future. A treaty would have to include an acknowledgement that Australia was conquered not settled, and recognition of Aboriginal rights to self-determination.
NASA dropped a bombshell of a climate report on March 11. February 2016 has soared past all rivals as the warmest seasonally adjusted month in more than a century of global recordkeeping. NASA's analysis showed that February ran 1.35掳C above the 1951-1980 global average for the month, as can be seen in the graph of monthly anomalies going back to 1880.
Australia's large energy companies appear to prefer to accept fines for not building renewable energy rather than build it and weaken their investments in coal and gas generation.
When the Tony Abbott government passed legislation to reduce the Renewable Energy Target (RET) by about 20% in June 2015, some supporters of renewables hoped that an end to policy uncertainty would free up finance for investment and get planned projects into the construction phase.
On March 17, after a two-day meeting held in the town of Girk锚 Leg锚 (Al-Muabbada) in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), a Constituent Assembly established a 鈥淩ojava-Northern Syria Democratic Federal System鈥.
The Constituent Assembly was attended by 31 parties and 200 delegates representing Rojava's Koban锚, Efr卯n and Ciz卯r锚 cantons and the Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Syriac, Armenian, Turkmen and Chechen peoples of Gir锚 Sp卯 (Tal Abyad), Shaddadi, Aleppo and Shehba regions.
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