When the Olympic Games begin, the news headlines will be swamped with stories of new world records in this or that sporting field. We will be whipped into a frenzy about it. There will be discussions all around the world about how the record was broken, about the ferocious competition to produce record-breaking athletes, about performance-inducing drugs.
Meanwhile, much more significant world records will barely rate a mention in the media.
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As industrial action by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) maintenance workers in Abbotsford enters its ninth week support continues to grow.
The company is refusing to back down from its decision to sack workers and then offer to rehire them with a 65% pay cut.
The dispute started on June 10 when 55 fitters, electricians and maintenance workers were told they would be sacked, only to then be 鈥渋nvited鈥 to re-apply for their jobs through a third-party contractor, Catalyst Recruitment.
The powerful conservative Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees鈥 Association (SDA) 鈥 the biggest right-wing union affiliated to the Labor Party 鈥 has passed a resolution declaring it will adopt a neutral stand on equal marriage.
Veteran gay rights campaigner Rodney Croome has quit as national director of Australian Marriage Equality (AME), which he founded in 2004, to lobby MPs to block the equal marriage plebiscite.
Croome said those who believe a plebiscite is inevitable are 鈥渓acking political imagination鈥 and declared blocking it could force a free vote in parliament on the issue. He said there was 鈥渘o split in the movement鈥 but rather 鈥渁 spectrum of different approaches to a very difficult situation鈥.
New South Wales Labor MP Noreen Hay, who has held the seat of Wollongong since 2003, is resigning from state parliament effective from September 1.
About 400 people attended a public open-day at the iconic Tarwyn Park property in the beautiful Bylong Valley in the Upper Hunter on July 31. It was the day that Peter Andrews, the 76- year-old founder and expert in Natural Sequence Farming (NSF), relinquished ownership of the property.
Korean state-owned mining company KEPCO assumed ownership of the property at midnight on August 1. But Andrews has vowed to stay on to fight for the land's protection.
The shocking abuse suffered by children in Darwin's Don Dale detention centre revealed by the ABC's Four Corners on July 25 has angered wide layers of the community. It has also prompted a nationwide demand to take immediate action against the perpetrators and ensure that nothing like this can ever happen again in the juvenile detention system.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's decision to call a narrowly focused royal commission into Northern Territory youth detention centres has been met with justifiable scepticism and criticism.
Footage aired last week of children being abused in a Northern Territory prison sent shockwaves around the nation. These images forced us to grapple with the problem as if it were breaking news, despite the fact that so many people knew so much about it for so long. Nevertheless, is being established, and although many would like to see a wider scope, accountability for abuses of this nature must be the ultimate result.
In May, the Northern Territory government for a cattle station near Pine Creek, west of Kakadu National Park, to use almost 14 million megalitres of water a year to irrigate crops.
Grandmothers Against Removals NSW released this statement for Aboriginal Children's Day on August 4.
In Sydney, at the Family Law Courts, 99 Goulburn Street which will then march to NSW Parliament House.
Grandmothers Against Removals is a network of families and supporters directly affected by forced child removal.
The union at the SABMiller Sonepat brewery in the state of Haryana, India has been organising mass protest actions in response to the harassment and intimidation of trade union leaders and members. It comes amid management's refusal to respect collective bargaining rights.
High-profile African-American academic, activist and socialist Cornel West, who strongly backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary race, talks to 's Amy Goodman on why he is backing the Green Party's Jill Stein for president.
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