After a spirited march through the Adelaide CBD, 1500 unionists rallied on the steps of the South Australian parliament on April 1 to protest the state Labor government鈥檚 plans to dismantle the workers鈥 compensation laws.
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A new British government 聯kitemark聰 suggests that most carbon offset schemes are flawed, but fails to address the more fundamental problem of paying others to clean up after us.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) campaign to secure wage rises for construction workers across the country has attracted fierce criticism from the federal government, which is demanding the union apply 鈥渞estraint鈥 in order to keep a lid on inflation.
Overwhelmed by the greenhouse debate? Bamboozled by all the competing claims that renewable energy sources cannot supply 24-hours-a-day power (鈥渂ase load鈥)? Depressed by the unending vastness of 鈥渢he literature鈥 on global warming and renewables?
Ben Bernanke is the chairperson of the US Federal Reserve Bank. If he sneezes at the wrong time, the world鈥檚 sharemarkets take another dive and currency speculators rush for their global roulette table. So when he addressed the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on April 3 he was choosing his words very carefully. And there was one word he was wary about using: 鈥渞ecession鈥.
According to a March 20 Prensa Latina report, Bolivia has honoured the second anniversary of the national literacy campaign that has so far taught 77% of its illiterate population to read and write, using the Cuban program \"Yes, I Can\". Since it
The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is spreading its net further throughout the building industry in an attempt to intimidate unions from standing up for the interests of their members.
Even from my bed on the opposite side of the room it was possible to see the gruesome surgical-steel staples bisecting Miguel鈥檚 head.
We are taking a break from production to attend the 91自拍论坛 Weekly Climate Change 鈥 Social Change conference (see ad on page 5). The next issue of GLW will be dated April 23.
According to an April 3 Reuters report, an independent environmental expert told a court in Ecuador that US oil giant Chevron should pay US$7 billion to $16 billion in compensation for environmental damage in the country. The lawsuit, which peasants
A legal challenge by environmental group Blue Wedges to the federal government鈥檚 approval of the dredging of Port Phillip Bay was defeated in the Federal Court on March 28. Blue Wedges鈥 case was based on the slipshod manner in which environment minister Peter Garrett approved the project on February 6, a week after the giant dredging ship the Queen of the Netherlands arrived in Melbourne on January 29. The ship was commissioned by the Victorian government to dredge a new shipping channel in the bay.
As the full severity of the mortgage crisis emerged over the past year, there were still defenders of the free-market system ready to counter every criticism of sub-prime mortgage peddlers and profit-hungry banks by pinning the blame on the real culprits.
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