To give blood in Australia, it is first necessary to answer a lot of questions. Some make sense. They range from recent illness to cholesterol. Some are invasive and confronting. One question asks: 鈥淲ithin the past 12 months have you had male to male sex?鈥
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On January 12, community group Climate Action Hobart launched its document Ten Steps for a Safe Climate 鈥 Tasmania鈥檚 contribution to preventing dangerous climate change, which was developed over the previous year with input from industry experts, scientists, climate activists and the general community.
The Men Who Killed Qantas: Greed, Lies and Crashes and How They Destroyed the Reputation of the World鈥檚 Safest Airline
By Matthew Benns,
William Heinemann, 2009,
307 pp, $34.95 (pb)
Chain store Roger David has been selling offensive T-shirts with pictures of naked women bound or gagged with cloth over their mouths. Other shirts available for sale online have slogans on them such as 鈥淚t鈥檚 not rape, it鈥檚 surprise sex鈥, and 鈥淵our princess is my little slut鈥.
The following statement was released on January 26 by Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), which is part of the National Resistance Front Against the Coup (FNRG), on the protests planned for the following day against the inauguration of 鈥減resident鈥 Porfirio Lobo Sosa. It is reprinted from .
The Live Red Art Award and Festival, an initiative supported by Cultural Dissent seeks to promote and recognize art that investigates a radical social and political perspective.
Although New Zealand, like Australia, has not been as badly affected by the global economic crisis as the US or Europe, workers are facing hardship.
鈥淲e are human beings, why are we ignored?鈥, a Tamil refugee inside the Christmas Island detention centre told 91自拍论坛 Weekly on the night of January 28.
On January 26, three refugee advocates 鈥 Sydney-based Tamil community activist Sara Nathan, Pamela Curr from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Melbourne, and Jessica Chandrashekar from the Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for Relief of Tamils 鈥 were arrested in Merak, Indonesia.
The coronial inquest into the fatal explosion onboard a boat carrying Afghan asylum seekers in April 2009 began on January 25. Five people died and many were injured.
Howard Zinn, an activist and author for half a century and probably the best-known voice of the US left, died on January 27 at the age of 87.
鈥淲e have three priorities鈥, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told a January 21 media conference on Haiti with former US President Bill Clinton.
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