Former US marine and anti-war activist Vincent Emanuele is making his second speaking tour of Australia during June and July. A member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Emanuele is speaking to audiences about the US military machine.
At a meeting in Melbourne where Emanuele spoke on July 4, the film On the Bridge was also screened. The film is a series of interviews with Iraq war veterans opposed to the war, including Emanuele.
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Fremantle city councillor and Socialist Alliance candidate for Fremantle, Sam Wainwright, spoke at a GetUp forum in Perth on June 14.
Reading the polls makes it clear that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is a hit. Overnight, Rudd's return has turned the tables for Labor. From staring down electoral annihilation, Labor is now on par with Liberal leader Tony Abbott. The election is a contest once again.
鈥淜evin07鈥 was a popular campaign that gained mainstream traction among Australia鈥檚 youth in the 2007 federal elections. Even though 鈥淜evin13鈥 lacks the same ring, his return has marked clear moves by Rudd to regain his attraction to young voters.
Only a month after Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett announced the government would push for the acquisition of James Price Point for future gas and petroleum projects, Shell Petroleum defended their proposal to build a $12 billion floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant off the Kimberley coast.
This follows Woodside Petroleum鈥檚 decision to abort plans to build a $40 billion onshore gas hub after concluding that it was not economically viable. Instead it will use Shell鈥檚 technology to develop its own offshore floating LNG plant.
Some environment NGOs have been quick to say that Australia鈥檚 carbon price has sharply cut carbon emissions in its first year. The claims not only contradict the evidence, but are positively deceptive: an exercise to cast a deeply flawed policy as a serious response to climate change.
The Bolivian presidential plane finally left Vienna Airport July 3, at聽 5.30am聽 (Bolivian time). This after a 14 hour period during which President Evo Morales was literally kidnapped and his plane interrupted in mid-flight without explanation, putting Bolivian president鈥檚 life in danger.
Four countries 鈥 France, Spain, Italy and Portugal 鈥 revoked flight permission while the plane was taking Morales and other officials home from an energy conference in Moscow.
The statement below was released by Socialist Alliance election candidate Margarita Windisch on July 5. Windisch is contesting the Victorian seat of Wills in the upcoming federal election.
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The Obama administration is now in overdrive trying to hunt down and extradite whistleblower Edward Snowden for revealing the extraordinary extent to which the United States鈥 PRISM spy program has carried out surveillance of citizens.
Progressive Rock music usually froths with fantasy-laden lyrics and all manner of beardy weirdness, but The Tangent take the genre off on an a whole new tangent.
The Northern Territory鈥檚 new mandatory alcohol treatment law came into effect on July 1.聽Now, anyone taken into protective custody for drunkenness three times in two months can be referred to three months鈥 mandatory rehabilitation in a secure facility.
I was browsing the 鈥淩ecognise鈥 site recently 鈥 the hip, new rebranded 鈥淵ou Me Unity鈥 organisation tasked with promoting constitutional recognition of First Nations Australians 鈥 when I came across this curious fact: 鈥淩esearch by Auspoll in late 2012 found strong Indigenous support for constitutional recognition.
鈥淭hree-quarters of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people surveyed were in favour of recognition, and only 8% opposed it. The same overwhelming majority felt recognition would help protect against a loss of culture for future generations.鈥
Imagine the aircraft of the president of France being forced down in Latin America on 鈥渟uspicion鈥 that it was carrying a political refugee to safety 鈥 and not just any refugee but someone who has provided the people of the world with proof of criminal activity on an epic scale.
Brazil's government must ally itself with the people or pay the price, said Joao Pedro Stedile, national coordination of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), a powerful social movement with deep roots in the South American nation that fights for land reform.
Pedro Stedile spoke to Brasil de FatoM amid the huge protest movement sweeping Brazilian cities, sparked by a rise in bus fares and fuelled by spending on big events such as 2014 World Cup while public services deteriorated.
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