The Victorian government released plans on June 17 to expand Melbourne聮s Urban Growth Boundary for new housing developments. This overturns previous commitments in its 聯Melbourne 2030" strategy for limited urban sprawl.
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Victorian paramedics began industrial action on June 19, after enterprise bargaining negotiations with the state government broke down following a year of discussions. A ballot returned 94% support for industrial action.
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聯The situation for women in Afghanistan is becoming worse than even during the period of rule by the Taliban聰, Afghan activist and feminist Shazia told an audience of 40 people at the Queensland Teachers Union office on June 15.
Residents group Friends of Banyule staged a protest on June 20 outside a meeting with state roads minister Tim Pallas. The meeting was an information session about the proposed freeway link between the Eastern Freeway and the Western Ring Road.
The Rudd government will send a 40-member delegation, led by deputy prime minister Julia Gillard, to an 鈥淎ustralia Israel Leadership Forum鈥 in Jerusalem on June 25-26. The government鈥檚 decision is yet further confirmation of its desire to outdo the former Howard government in blind support for Israel.
Since the June 12 Iranian presidential election, and the almost immediate announcement of a landslide victory for incumbent Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Iran has been convulsed by mass protests alleging electoral fraud.
With the Maoists no longer heading up the government, the Nepalese elites have collectively let out a sigh of relief.
Saharawi refugee and preschool teacher Fetim Sellami is a central character in the Australian documentary Stolen, a film set in the refugee camps in south-west Algeria that have been home to 165,000 Saharawi refugees since their country, Western Sahara, was invaded by Morocco in 1975.
However, when she and her husband, Baba Hocine Mahfoud, attended its June 11 premiere at the Sydney Film Festival, they did not receive red carpet treatment, despite the long distance they had travelled.
Here鈥檚 something you won鈥檛 hear from the corporate media: Cuba鈥檚 human rights record was examined by the United Nation鈥檚 Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and the country came out looking pretty good.
In May, visiting US ecologist Bill McKibben spoke at a packed forum at the University of Sydney. He put a compelling case for emergency action on climate change. In short, we must act now and act decisively. Otherwise the planet will become uninhabitable.
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