About 200,000 immigrants and supporters marched on March 21 in Washington to protest against the inaction of President Barack Obama and Congress on legislation that could legalise more than 11 million undocumented immigrants.
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PERTH 鈥 Construction, mining, maritime and metal workers rallied outside the Sheraton Hotel on March 23 while chief executive of mining giant Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Sam Walsh, hosted a business breakfast for Rio bosses.
The Bolivian government is seeking to use the 鈥減eople鈥檚 summit鈥 it is organising in April to push for a global referendum on climate change, AFP said on March 17.
Waterside worker and long time Aboriginal activist Charles "Chicka" Dixon has died in Sydney aged 81 鈥 struck down by asbestosis he contracted while working on the wharves.
Leading solar energy company Solar Systems was sold on March 16 to Silex, a small Australian company specialising in uranium enrichment and the manufacture of solar panels.
On March 23, Ewan Saunders was preselected as Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Brisbane in the upcoming federal election. Saunders is Queensland co-convenor of SA and is studying occupational therapy at the University of Queensland.
Alexis Adarfio is a revolutionary activist who has been nominated as a pre-candidate in the primary elections to determine the candidates for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in the September 26 National Assembly elections. He is based in the state of Bolivar, Venezuela鈥檚 industrial heartland.
On March 3, the New South Wales government approved a new 2000 megawatt (MW) 鈥渂aseload鈥 power station, Bayswater B, to be built adjacent to the existing Bayswater power station in the Hunter Valley.
The 2010 Global Atheist Convention was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre over March 12-14. Organised by the Atheist Foundation of Australia and Atheist Alliance International, tickets were sold out months before the conference.
On March 20, 120 protesters gathered at Foreshore Park in Newcastle to protest against the proposed Tillegra dam. The protest was the culmination of the week-long 鈥淲alk for the Williams鈥, which started at Brownmore, passing the site of the proposed dam near Dungog before proceeding along the Williams River to Newcastle Harbour.
At Easter, many people will eat a lot of chocolate. What they won鈥檛 necessarily know is that much of it is produced using child slave labour in Third World countries.
Employment in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria is heavily dependent on brown coal for electricity generation.
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