Soldiers armed with live and rubber bullets attacked the peaceful pro-democracy Red Shirt protests in the centre of Bangkok on April 10. At least 12 people, including a Japanese Reuters reporter, have been shot dead.
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Disgraced ex-rugby league player turned celebrity Matthew Johns made his return to TV on March 25, with the 鈥渇amily-friendly鈥 Matty Johns Show being hailed a 鈥渟uccess鈥 by reviewers.
Right-wing Republicans won an important battle in the 鈥渉istory wars鈥 on March 12 when the Texas Board of Education approved a new social studies curriculum.
The NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages has refused to change a transsexual man鈥檚 documents unless he undergoes life-threatening surgery.
Australian PM Kevin Rudd鈥檚 appointment of Tony Burke as population minister continues the Australian tradition of playing political football with immigration. His appointment came after Treasury estimates predicted that Australia鈥檚 population will grow from 22 million to 36 million by 2050.
Coal threatens Queensland
It is not a good look for Queensland internationally and here at home with the Chinese coal ship having run aground on the Great Barrier Reef, leaking oil and about to break up.
The massive mines of the Hancock and Waratah coal companies, together with the coal mines of the Bowen Basin coming through with the Northern Missing Link, mean that upwards of 230 million tonnes per annum of coal will be going through the nationally wetlands of Caley Valley and exported through the newly constructed port at Abbot Point.
A tidal wave of wealth
"Australia's top executives have seen their collective wealth swell by almost three-quarters 鈥 or about $15 billion 鈥 over the past year, easily outstripping gains by ordinary investors.
"The total wealth of Australia's top 200 business chieftains ballooned to $35 billion in 2010, up from $20.3 billion in 2009, according to the BRW 2010 Executive Rich List ...
"The combined wealth of Australian executives was 72 per cent higher than last year ..."
鈥 March 24 Sydney Morning Herald.
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The annual Palm Sunday peace rally took place in Brisbane on March 28, sponsored by the Rally for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament. The main themes of the rally were: Nuclear-free Australia; oppose climate change; no to uranium weapons; and safe havens for refugees.
Telstra workers, who are covered by the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union, rallied outside Telstra headquarters in Perth on April 6. The action was part of a 15-month dispute between the company and the union members. Telstra is offering a pay rise for a non-union enterprise agreement. The wage increase would not extend to an agreement negotiated by the CEPU on behalf of its members.
At the failed December United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, the issue of population control was put on the agenda by the delegation from China.
It was not a chemical plant, nor a nuclear facility, nor a manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction. But almost all the rubble of the entirely destroyed factory was covered in white, with white chunks everywhere.
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