In 2001, newly-elected US President George Bush made international headlines when he announced changes to how international aid organisations were to be funded with US money. Known as the 聯Global Gag Rule聰, aid organisations were informed that, in order to continue receiving US government funding, they could no longer provide any information about abortion to their clients.
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On May 9, 2007 NSW Premier Morris Iemma announced that he had appointed Anthony Owen, Australia鈥檚 first professor of energy economics, to report on NSW鈥檚 future needs in electricity generation capacity.
Mitsubishi closure Federal industry minister Kim Carr has announced a $50 million "support package" for workers at the Mitsubishi's Tonsley Park car plant in Adelaide to soften the blow of the plant's closure. One way to spend that money which
A new report published by Friends of the Earth (FoE), Climate Code Red: The case for a sustainability emergency, warns that human-induced climate change is dangerously impacting on the planet and its people, and calls on the Rudd government to take real action to avert disaster from global warming.
The president of the Venezuela聮s National Assembly聮s Energy and Mines Committee, Angel Rodriguez, rejected the illegal judicial decision on behalf of British, US and Dutch courts, of freezing the Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) assets in their countries, as part of a lawsuit brought by the US Exxon Mobil, due to the nationalisation of the Orinoco Belt, which took place last May.
[The following is a statement from the national executive of the Socialist Alliance.]
On February 2, 150 people rallied in support of same-sex civil unions in the Australian Capital Territory, demanding the restoration of the original version of the ACT civil unions act, which included the right to hold an official ceremony and the right for non-ACT residents to obtain a civil union certificate.
Leaders of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) have vowed to defy court rulings banning them from participating in public assemblies. The court orders were placed on 35 opposition party and grassroots activists who were charged with illegal assembly following a January 26 protest against price hikes imposed by the government-owned oil corporation, Petronas.
During the war against Vietnam, it was not until 1970 that the US union movement took protest action in an organised manner. And even then, it was a pro-war demonstration called by New York鈥檚 Building Trades Council in support of President Richard Nixon. However anti-war unions responded to that demonstration 鈥 held on May 20 and drawing 50,000 workers (many of them paid to attend) 鈥 with a protest of their own. While it only drew half as many people, it was a significant milestone 鈥 it was the first time that US unions formally organised an anti-war demonstration.
The US Department of Energy announced January 30 that it is pulling out of the Futuregen Project in Mattoon, Illinois 聴 the United States聮 US$1.8 billion 聯clean coal聰 demonstration plant, scheduled to start construction next year. The DoE had committed to paying 74% ($1.3 billion) of Futuregen聮s costs.
As Victorian Labor Premier John Brumby prepared to deliver his first annual 鈥渟tatement of government intentions鈥 to the opening of the 2008 parliamentary session on February 4, about 100 protesters gathered on the steps of Parliament House.
On February 3, 300 angry Goulburn Valley residents, many of them farmers, blockaded the Sugarloaf reservoir just north of Melbourne to protest the construction of a pipeline from the Goulburn River to Melbourne鈥檚 water supplies. The Goulburn River feeds into the Murray River system, increasingly drained by irrigation and, for many years now, a record drought.
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