As the British parliament is discussing proposals to extend its 聯anti-terrorism聰 laws even further, existing anti-terrorism laws have been used to conduct surveillance on a family wrongly suspected of lying on a school application form.
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The government of Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had the first of a series of meetings on April 15 with the leaders of the agricultural sector.
Around 30 adults and children gathered outside Midland Centrelink on April 14 to demand the end of welfare quarantining in the Northern Territory.
Denouncing the 聯coloniser attitude聰 and 聯barbarous exploitation聰 of workers by the management of the Sidor steel company, Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez announced at 1.30am on April 9 that President Hugo Chavez had decided to nationalise the company.
More than 300 people took part in three days of invigorating discussion at the Climate Change 聴 Social change conference on April 11-13 hosted by 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
As news headlines report riots and food shortages in Third World nations, during March and April more than 5000 people on Australia聮s eastern seaboard were able to hear the inspiring story of Cuba聮s survival when faced with starvation and its transition to ecological sustainability.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a technique to remove carbon dioxide from industrial pollution 鈥 and especially from power stations 鈥 and compress, transport and store it perpetually in secure underground structures such as expired gas and oil fields and other geological formations.
聯Now, to producing Venezuelan steel at the service of the revolution and socialism!聰, proclaimed Jose Melendez, referring to the victory obtained after 15 months of struggle at the steel factory Sidor, located in the heartland of Venezuela聮s basic industry in Guayana.
The detail of the federal Labor government鈥檚 plan for its new industrial relations system, to come into force in January 2010, is beginning to come to light. On April 9, the Australian Financial Review reported that it had obtained a copy of a letter sent by workplace relations minister Julia Gillard to a range of unions and businesses. It canvassed their opinion on issues including the scope of allowable content in workplace agreements, the scope of individual 鈥渇lexibility鈥 clauses to be mandatory in all awards and enterprise agreements and regulation of industrial action during a bargaining period for a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).
A snap protest was held outside the Sydney office of World Wide Fund for Nature on April 16 after WWF announced it was joining forces with the Climate Institute, the Australian Coal Association and the mining and energy division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union to push the federal government to make 鈥渃lean鈥 coal the centrepiece of its climate change abatement plan.
91自拍论坛 Weekly caught up with some of the Climate Change 鈥 Social Change conference participants. Here鈥檚 what they had to say.
Teachers around the country are in protracted disputes over wages and conditions with their ALP government bosses. Federal education minister Julia Gillard has come out in opposition to teachers鈥 unions鈥 proposal to place bans on administrating national literacy and numeracy testing in pursuit of claims for real wage increases and to demand an improvement of working conditions.
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