Last May, the ALP announced a target for greenhouse gas emission reductions that, if observed generally across the world鈥檚 major emitting countries, would give humanity virtually no chance of avoiding climate catastrophe.
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The Melbourne Age reported on February 27 that child abuse charges against an Indigenous woman from the NT had finally been dropped after two years. The woman聮s son has still not been returned to her by Family and Children聮s Services Northern Territory (FACS), however.
Janet Giles, secretary of SA Unions, South Australia聮s peak trade union body, resigned on February 18 from the board of the state government聮s WorkCover Corporation, stating that she could not defend the rights of injured workers while remaining on the board.
Just weeks after the Ecuadorian and Venezuelan governments called on Colombia to respect the need for peace and negotiation with the guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People聮s Army (FARC-EP), the Colombian of President Alvaro Uribe launched an extensive armed air and land assault against the insurgency movement.
On March 3, 400 teachers rallied as part of the Australian Education Union聮s campaign for improved wages and conditions. The AEU is calling for a 10% pay rise each year for three years to bring Victorian teachers聮 wages in line with those of New South Wales teachers.
It has to be one of the most unbelievable stories of the century: New Idea, a magazine that trades on gossip about royals and other celebrities, is blamed for exposing Prince Harry鈥檚 deployment in the British military intervention in Afghanistan. It is about as believable as the plot of Mark Twain鈥檚 The Prince and the Pauper, in which a young prince swaps places with a street lad to see what life is like in 鈥淧aupersville鈥.
The breakout of the people of Gaza in late January provided a heroic spectacle unlike any other since the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the smashing down of the Berlin Wall.
Centrelink is to cut about 2000 of its 27,000 staff over the next financial year as part of new cost-cutting measures by PM Kevin Rudd聮s Labor government.
Venezuela As an Australian person currently living and working in Venezuela, I feel there are many important aspects to the ExxonMobil issue that have been, perhaps deliberately, ignored by the mainstream media in Australia. Legalities aside
As the horror of Israel聮s recent attacks on Gaza spread, UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon could only describe Israel聮s rocket launches as 聯an excessive use of force聰. By contrast, he described a Palestinian homemade rocket, which killed two Israeli soldiers and one civilian, as a 聯terrorist聰 act.
The April 11-13 Climate Change/Social Change conference being organised in Sydney by 91自拍论坛 Weekly aims to promote recognition that radical social change is necessary to solve the global climate crisis. This is a crisis that at threatens to make the Earth uninhabitable for the vast majority of humans and other species.
Over 4000 Victorian Independent Education Union (VIEU) members from Catholic schools stopped work for 24 hours on March 7 in support of their enterprise bargaining agreement.
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