The federal Labor government says it is not homophobic. Yet it agrees with its Coalition predecessor that marriage is a 鈥渦nion between a man and woman鈥. Regardless of opinion on marriage, the legal rights afforded this institution should be available to all couples regardless of gender.
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鈥淗ere is a government that has given us a guarantee that working Australians all get a look in, not just the big end of town鈥, said Australian Council of Trade Unions president Sharan Burrow of federal Treasurer Wayne Swan鈥檚 first budget.
I聮m writing on May 13 at 5:19am from the city of Wanzhou, Chongqing Municipality, China. I聮ve just re-entered my apartment after the latest aftershock sent everyone onto the streets once more. It聮s been a long 15 hours since the initial earthquake yesterday afternoon that so devastated Wenchuan and surrounds, such as the beautiful city of Chengdu. At this moment, my understanding of the scope of this disaster is only what I have been able to garner from international news websites and secondhand reports from my Chinese friends.
Prensa Latina reported on May 12 that the US government closed several websites by Steve Marshall, a British resident in Spain, owner of a travel agency, for their trade links with Cuba. In October Washington ordered the US Web hosting company eNom
Below is abridged from a May 12 post to . Nadia Hasan is a Chilean-born Palestinian activist, who maintains the blog http://palestinaresiste2.blogspot.com.
The Rudd government鈥檚 first budget, touted as a 鈥淩obin Hood鈥 budget, takes very little from the 鈥渞ich鈥 and gives practically nothing to the poor and disadvantaged. In its fundamentals, it continues on from where the former Howard Coalition government left off.
An expanded form of this article first appeared in Revista Corriente Alterna. The translation of this extract is by British group, Socialist Resistance.
East Timor's foreign minister Zacarias Albano da Costa met with his Cuban counterpart Felipe Perez Roque in Havana where he thanked the country for its continuous support of East Timor, "even under the most difficult circumstances", according to a
The coal industry is planning to replace oil by turning coal into liquid fuels and into feedstocks for the chemical industry. Of course they are also planning to burn ever-more coal to produce electricity. If these plans materialise, green chemistry and renewable solar energy will both be sidelined for the rest of this century.
In May and June of 1968, a movement erupted in France that threatened not just the survival of the government of President Charles De Gaulle but the system that it represented 聴 capitalism.
Reuters reported on May 16 that Venezuela had "shut the door to new gold projects and threatened other mining and logging concessions". Environment minister Yuviri Ortega said Venezuela will "deny environmental permits" for any open-pit mines and
Since beginning its first parliamentary term with the symbolic apology to the Stolen Generations, the Rudd Labor government has promised a shift away from the hostility towards Indigenous Australians shown by the previous Howard government.
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