Up to 40 teenage prisoners from Victoria鈥檚 youth justice centre at Parkville will be sent to a segregated wing of the maximum security Barwon adult prison after it was gazetted as a youth remand centre and a youth justice custodial centre on November 17.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said an adult prison was the 鈥渕ost appropriate facility鈥 for those responsible for allegedly rioting at the Parkville Justice Centre the previous weekend.
The first time residents in Newtown 鈥 one of the oldest suburbs in Sydney 鈥 heard of a new Westconnex tunnel route under their homes was when a couple of test drill sites were set up in the neighbourhood. They immediately responded with a series of early morning protests at these sites.
Then an article in the November 11 Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Mike Baird Coalition government had decided to bring forward the construction of an eight-lane tunnel to link the M4 and M5 tollways.
As part of Anti-Poverty Week, on October 21 and 22, Anti-Poverty Network South Australia hosted Power To The Poor 鈥 Silent No More, a two-day conference devoted to the attacks faced by welfare recipients in Australia 鈥 sole parents, unemployed people, age and disability pensioners, carers, and others 鈥 and opportunities for pushing back.
WENDY, a job-seeker in her late 50s, spoke about her experiences as an older unemployed person. Below she was interviewed by PAS FORGIONE from Anti-Poverty Network SA.
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Mardi Gras 鈥 now the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, (LGBTQI) pride march in the world 鈥 started in June 1978 when New South Wales police viciously assaulted queer people dancing through Oxford Street.聽
Black Lives Matter Global Network released the following to on November 15.
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Our mandate has not changed: organise and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
The Mexican and US national teams defied protocol on November 11 in their World Cup qualifier as they posed together for a team photograph. The move was a display of unity as US president-elect Donald Trump threatens to tear the two nations apart.
Mexico won the game, hosted in Ohio, with a 2-1 final score.
Normally, football teams pose separately before the game, but this time the players decided to pose together to strike back at Trump鈥檚 proposal to make Mexico pay for a wall between the two countries to keep immigrants out.
The has warned that 2016 was set to be the hottest year on record by a significant margin livescience.com said.
WMO scientists told diplomats gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, for the November 7鈥18 United Nations COP22 climate talks that temperatures are 1.2藲C above pre-industrial times.
The offshore detention hellholes of Nauru and Manus Island are becoming increasingly unviable as more damning reports are published, court cases in Papua New Guinea continue, private service providers under the pressure of boycott campaigns decline to reapply for contracts and protests grow in Australia.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull鈥檚 latest plan 鈥 third country resettlement in the United States 鈥 is a reaction to this pressure, while also maintaining the policy of boat turnbacks, border security rhetoric and denying asylum seekers the right to be resettled in Australia.
