Port Augusta residents gave a resounding thumbs up for a solar powered future in a community vote in July. to replace the city鈥檚 two aging coal-fired power stations, while just 43 people voted for gas power.
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Thousands of yellow-shirted supporters of Malaysia's Bersih movement for free and fair elections defied a police ban to gather around the theme "Janji Demokrasi" (Promised Democracy) on the eve of the 55th anniversary of the country's independence from British colonial rule. activist Choo Chon Kai, who took these photos, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly:
Ecuador's granting of asylum to WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has thrown a spotlight on the country's media policy. In 2008, Ecuadorians for a new constitution.
The remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community of Amoonguna said on August 23 that it wants its power back and refused to renew a five-year government lease, which expired on August 17.
Amoonguna, 15 kilometres south of Alice Springs, has also started legal action to remove all government workers from its land.
A lack of communication regarding the fate of Sydney University鈥檚 Koori Centre has left students fearing a repeat of the dangerous rhetoric that made way for 340 proposed job cuts last semester.
The 鈥淲ingara Mura 鈥 Bunga Barrabugu鈥 strategy will scatter the Koori Centre鈥檚 functions and staff across campus in 16 faculties.聽
Activists in Melbourne commemorated International Day of the Disappeared with an August 30 vigil that called on the Sri Lankan government to end to its practice of 鈥渄isappearing鈥 political dissidents.
Long-term Sri Lankan human rights activist Lionel Bopage said: 鈥淔rom 1988 onwards, there was a marked increase in disappearances and killings. This has been part of repression of people critical of the regime.鈥
A peaceful community blockade set up to stop construction of two coal seam gas (CSG) pilot wells near Newcastle was broken up by riot police August 28.
Dart Energy won approval by the state government to drill the wells in Fullerton Cove in June this year. Locals say needs to be done.
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) may soon have a win against the mining corporation they allege has used dirty tactics and manipulation to force them into a mining deal they don鈥檛 want.
Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), owned by mining magnate Andrew 鈥淭wiggy鈥 Forrest, said it had secured the permission of traditional owners to start production on its $5 billion Solomon Hub iron ore project on Aboriginal land near Roebourne, WA.
Newly arrived asylum seekers are staging a desperate resistance to Australia's plans to ship them to remote Pacific island detention camps, as the government's efforts to begin the moves were slammed as 鈥渃haotic鈥.
after they were told their asylum claim would not be processed in Australia. A small group of men continued for three days before beginning to eat again.
Mitt Romney鈥檚 choice of Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate for the November presidential poll signaled the takeover of the Republicans by the Tea Party, at least through the election.
Ryan鈥檚 record as a Congressperson puts the representative from Wisconsin squarely on the far right of capitalist politics.
Ryan co-sponsored a bill with Republican representative from Missouri Todd Akin, who thinks that women cannot become pregnant from a 鈥渓egitimate鈥 rape. It sought to narrow the definition of rape to reduce the number of poor women who can get abortion through Medicaid.
An in-confidence report to the department of immigration in January said detention camps on Nauru would need three to five months work before they could be functional. It also said the sites could house a maximum of 400 at the island's two previous detention sites, and any more would lead to crowding and 鈥渢ension and behavioural issues鈥 very quickly.
The article below first appeared on on August 30.
Angela Taft is an associate professor in public health at La Trobe University. She is the co-ordinator for Women's Health Special Interest Group at the Public Health Association of Australia, which has lobbied for the importation of RU486 for several years.
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