August was a terrible month of climate vandalism in Western Australia.
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In April 2008, workplace relations minister Julia Gillard set up the National Review into Model Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Laws to develop a new national OHS standard. The process is called 鈥淥HS Harmonisation鈥.
Conservative Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson will present the opening address to the Brisbane Writers鈥 Festival on September 9. Brisbane-based Indigenous leader Sam Watson, who will also speak at the festival, has challenged Pearson to a public debate.
In the last week of winter, something strange happened: bushfires raged across New South Wales, with major fires in the Shoalhaven and Eurobodalla in the south of the state.
91自拍论坛 Weekly is launching a 鈥渟pring offensive鈥 to help us reach our 2009 fighting fund target of $250,000. By the end of August, we had raised $147,550 鈥 about 60%. We need a push to get to 100% or more.
The Age of Stupid
Directed by Franny Armstrong
With Pete Postlethwaite
In cinemas
The recent resignation by NSW minister John Della Bosca over his affair with a woman revealed just how the big political parties and the corporate media trivialise Australian politics.
Before the recent elections in the German states of Thuringia, Saarland and Saxony it seemed likely that Christian Democrat (CDU) German Chancellor Angela Merkel would return to power comfortably this year, probably in coalition with the free-market fundamentalists of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
Message Stick 鈥 The Deadly Yarns two-part series showcases the work of Western Australian Indigenous writers, directors and producers. ABC1, Friday, September 11, 6pm.
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer 鈥 J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the
Sol Nationself-titled EP by Sol Nation
Released September through MGM
Email solnation@gmail.com
Last week, Queensland鈥檚 Bligh Labor government demonstrated it could remove the conscience vote on laws regarding abortion. It also instructed ALP parliamentarians to vote in favour of a law to allow medical terminations on the same limited grounds as now apply to surgical terminations.
Leonard Peltier, an activist for the rights of Native Americans and one of the US鈥檚 longest-serving political prisoners, was denied parole by the US Parole Commission on August 21.
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