If you talk to the people in-the-know at the United Nations and other related agencies, they will tell you that our system of governance is not working well enough to solve the crises the world is facing.
I guess this explains why the final lead document 鈥淭he Future We Want鈥 from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil from June 13-22, was described by Yolanda Kakabadse, International Director of WWF, as 鈥渁 weak text without bones and without soul.鈥
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Sudanese President Omer Al Bashir has described anti-government protesters as foreign agents, agitators and 鈥渂ubbles鈥. Yet unrest may boil over as it continues to spread and protesters vow they won鈥檛 stop until the regime falls.
The movement against the government was boosted on June 29 with large protests in Khartoum and its twin city Omdurman as well as at least a dozen cities outside the capital for the 鈥渄ay of elbow-licking鈥.
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the core provision of Arizona鈥檚 vicious anti-immigrant law.
The part of the law upheld requires police to determine the immigration status of anyone they stop, for whatever reason, if they 鈥渟uspect鈥 they are undocumented.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewster claims the law would not result in racial profiling. But she is lying through her teeth.
Everyone knows that in Arizona, the only grounds for 鈥渟uspicion鈥 is having brown skin. No white person will be 鈥渟uspected鈥 of not having papers.
Despite escalating rhetoric and sectarian violence, it seems for the time being NATO is not planning a direct military assault against Syria along the lines of its attack on Libya last year.
If NATO had been looking for a pretext for such an assault, the June 22 shooting down by Syrian forces of a air force F4 phantom jet belonging to NATO member Turkey provided one 鈥 notwithstanding evidence the plane was shot down in Syrian airspace.
Having taken her share in Fairfax Media to nearly 20%, Gina Rinehart has demanded a greater say in the workings of Fairfax, including editorial matters at its major papers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Fairfax鈥檚 board has so far rejected Rinehart鈥檚 manoeuvres, saying she must first commit to signing the 鈥淔airfax Media Charter of Editorial Independence鈥, which is based on the 鈥渇undamental and longstanding principle of editorial independence鈥.
A June 27 speakout in the Bourke Street Mall called for the freeing of political prisoners in Pakistan and condemned the Pakistani state鈥檚 use of the Western-sponsored 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 as a pretext for cracking down on community activists and trade unionists. The speakout was use to collect signatures names on an international open letter.
The prosecution of two activists dubbed the 鈥淐hristmas Carol Criminals鈥 collapsed when a Perth magistrate dismissed all charges on June 29. Alex Bainbridge and Miranda Wood from the group Friends of Palestine WA (FOPWA) had been charged with trespassing during a December protest outside Israeli cosmetics company Seacret. Seacret benefits from the illegal occupation of Palestine by stealing minerals and resources from the Dead Sea to use in its products.
June 29 was dubbed "Black Friday" for Queensland public servants as up to 3000 temporary and contract workers faced the sack from the Liberal-National Party government.
Contracts for many staff in "non-frontline" jobs expired and will not be renewed under a job freeze ordered by Premier Campbell Newman, the June 29 Courier-Mail said.
Newman has also appointed a razor gang, following the interim report of the Costello Commission of Audit into state debt, to find more cuts, including jobs of permanent staff.
鈥淲hether I look at manufacturing, or I look at the climate emergency, it鈥檚 our generations, the ones alive now, that have a responsibility," said Dave Kerin, a founder of the Earthworker Cooperative, explaining the driving force behind the group鈥檚 key project.
Californian hardcore punk band Death By Stereo have long been known for their politically charged lyrics, energising the scene with their debut If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die 13 years ago.
Not long after Melbourne鈥檚 recent earthquake a few wags leapt on Twitter to blame Australia鈥檚 carbon price for causing it. Greens Senator Richard Di Natale .
July 1 is the new financial year and the start of many new government policies. This year, the carbon and mining taxes, and expansion of income management, or welfare quarantining, to five new locations.聽
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People receiving Centrelink payments and living in Playford in South Australia, Logan and Rockhampton in Queensland, Greater Shepparton in Victoria, and Bankstown in NSW may be subject to the new system.
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The carbon and mining taxes have generated hysterical debate, but the extension of income management has been noticeably underreported.
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