Supposedly due to 鈥渄ysfunction鈥, NSW local government minister Paul Lynch sacked another elected local council on July 9. Based on the recommendation of commissioner Richard Colley, who headed up the recent public inquiry into the council, Lynch declared all elected offices of Shellharbour City Council (SCC) vacant.
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On November 23, the government of President Hugo Chavez, and the revolution he is leading in Venezuela, will face a serious test. Regional elections will be held nationwide in Venezuela and the results will have a significant impact on the progress of the Bolivarian revolution.
The family of Aidan McAnespie, shot dead by a British soldier after he passed through a checkpoint on the Monaghan/Tyrone border between the Republic of Ireland and the six counties of British-occupied Northern Ireland 20 years ago on his way to a football match, say a new report into his death heralds another phase in their campaign for the truth.
Figures from the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) show that since the election of the Labor government in November, the commission has upped the ante in its witch-hunt of building industry workers.
According to a July 15 statement by Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) spokesperson Patrick Craven, a meeting of southern African trade union representatives that day had issued a call for unions to place industrial bans on goods destined for Zimbabwe in solidarity with the struggle for democracy.
An anti-privatisation rally calling for the expansion of 鈥渞enewables, not coal鈥 was held outside NSW treasurer Michael Costa鈥檚 Newcastle office on July 14.
Whatever the final detail of the federal government聮s carbon emissions trading scheme 聴 the framework of which is contained in the green paper released by climate change minister Penny Wong on July 16 聴 there聮s one thing we can be sure of: it won聮t be of much use in cutting Australia聮s carbon emissions.
The British government has been slammed by the European Court of Human Rights for secretly and illegally monitoring every single telephone call, fax message and e-mail between Ireland and Britain for years.
聯The world is facing twin disasters in the near future: the coming economic meltdown of the international capitalist system, and the looming climate change crisis聰, Jim McIlroy told a 91自拍论坛 Weekly forum on July 15.
Below is an open letter from Herman Wainggai of the Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
A spirited rally of 1500 people protesting against the pope聮s reactionary policies took place on July 19 against the backdrop of an important civil liberties victory in the courts.
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