Many environmentalists believe that environmental destruction is a product of 聯overpopulation聰, and that the world is already 聯full up聰. So are population reduction strategies essential to solving the climate crisis?
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鈥淲e鈥檙e a listening government鈥, said Verity Firth, the NSW education minister and Labor MP for the now marginal seat of Balmain, when announcing the abandonment of the plan for a takeover by Sydney University of Callan Park in the heart of her electorate.
Student travel concessions have come under attack from the NSW state government. The proposed removal of the subsidy for school students will affect 700,000 students. The $50 back-to-school allowance, initiated by former premier Bob Carr in 2002, is also set to be cut.
The Rudd government is proposing to make funding for vocational training 聯contestable聰, the Sydney Morning Herald revealed on October 29. The proposal, effectively a privatisation of TAFE colleges, was drafted by state and federal bureaucrats and will be discussed at the November 17 Council of Australian Governments meeting.
Given the Earth鈥檚 atmosphere and its oceans are a closely interlinked natural complex, steeply rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are having dramatic impacts on the seas as well.
One month on from a corruption scandal that forced the resignation of Peru鈥檚 entire cabinet, the political crisis for President Alan Garcia continues unabated.
After walking in to Bayswater power station near Singleton, I was one of about 25 people who took part in a protest at one of Australia聮s biggest CO2 emitters on November 1.
Having heard about the October 25, 2.5-million-strong, protest against the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi while in Florence, I was disappointed that the timing of my visit to Rome was off by just a few days.
Twenty-seven members of the Colombian armed forces, including generals and other high-ranking officers, have been fired in connection to revelations that they had been involved with the abduction and murder of civilians.
Twenty people from farming families on the Darling Downs travelled several hours to occupy Premier Anna Bligh聮s office on October 31, demanding the state government introduce legislation to protect prime farmland from mining.
Palm Island Aboriginal man Lex Wotton was sentenced to six years鈥 jail for 鈥渞iot with destruction鈥 on November 7 鈥 just four days after 22 police officers received 鈥渂ravery awards鈥 for their role in the 2004 Palm Island protests.
On November 7, rallies in support of Lex Wotton took place around the country as Wotton was sentenced in Townsville to six years聮 prison for 聯riot with destruction聰.
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