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Is the Murray-Darling Basin Plan broken?

A recent expose by the has alleged significant illegal extraction of water from the Barwon-Darling river system, one of the major tributaries of the Murray River.

John Pilger: The beckoning of nuclear war

The United States submarine captain says: 鈥淲e鈥檝e all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you鈥檙e never ready, because you don鈥檛 know when it鈥檚 coming.

鈥淲ell, now we do know and there鈥檚 nothing to be done about it.鈥

He says he will be dead by September. It will take about a week to die, though no one can be sure. Animals live the longest.

The war was over in a month

Corporate 鈥榝ake art鈥 profiting off Aboriginal art

Walking into any souvenir shop in Australia, tourists see the walls lined with Aboriginal designs and artwork. What is less obvious is the fact that most of these items are mass produced in parts of Asia.

Banduk Marika, a Youngu artist, said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e not making those. Indigenous people, even Australians, we鈥檙e not making those. Who is making this?鈥

Aboriginal communities say the answer is corporations.

Venezuela: Corbyn calls for dialogue not violence

Britain Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, has said he is saddened by the violence and loss of life in Venezuela, 鈥渆ither of those on the streets or of the security forces who have been attacked by those on the streets鈥.

鈥淰iolence is not going to solve the issues,鈥 Corbyn told the media, at the end of a local party meeting in the southern English town of Crawley. He said there has to be dialogue and a process that respects Venezuela's institutions, including the independence of the judiciary.

Hamed is only the first to die: bring the refugees here

Hamed Shamshiripour, a 31 year old Iranian refugee, died on August 7 as a direct result of Australia鈥檚 detention system. He is the sixth man to die on Manus Island since the detention centre was opened in 2012, according to Monash University鈥檚 .

Visy workers vote to strike indefinitely after union delegate sacked

More than 70 workers at Visy鈥檚 Dandenong plant voted on August 7 to maintain a peaceful picket and not return to work after an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) delegate was sacked on August 4 for organising 鈥渋llegal industrial action鈥.

The workers, all members of the AMWU, had become increasingly angered by a series of provocative actions taken by Visy management in the weeks before the delegate was sacked.