The Sri Lankan government claims that, after its military victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which was fighting for an independent homeland in the island鈥檚 north-east for the Tamil minority, Tamil 鈥渢errorism鈥 has been crushed, and that the outlook for the country is rosy.
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鈥淚s it not bizarre as well as obnoxious that the Israelis should abduct all those on that ship into a country that they had no intention of visiting and then deport them from it?鈥, British Labour MP Gerald Kaufman told the House of Commons on July 13.
Aboriginal leaders have questioned the motives behind the NT intervention policy after the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) failed to find evidence of organised pedophile rings 鈥 a key motivation of the policy produced by then-Aboriginal affairs minister Mal Brough in 2007.
On July 12, Greek police demolished a refugee camp in the port of Patras, home to about 150 people who were applying for asylum. The action was part of a 鈥渃lean sweep鈥 operation to discourage refugees and migrants from entering Greece.
On July 13, the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union placed a green ban on the NSW government鈥檚 proposed site for the Pyrmont-CBD Metro station. The union has refused to demolish four 130-year-old Victorian terraces in Union Square.
He occupied a (somewhat self-appointed) position as a hero of Australia鈥檚 environment and Indigenous rights movements for decades. Yet these days, former Midnight Oil frontman and current ALP environment minister Peter Garrett works overtime to prove his credentials as a defender of big business and the big polluters.
鈥淯nder your intervention team's poor management, my people and community is in disarray鈥, said Ampilatwatja community spokesperson Richard Downs, reported the July 16 Sydney Morning Herald.
The 42 nations that make up the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) have called for world governments to set targets that would limit global warming to a 1.5掳C increase.
Comedian Rod Quantock launches his new show, Bugger the Polar Bears, This is Serious, in Melbourne on July 21. He spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Jay Fletcher about climate change, government inaction and the urgent need to create a global movement to save the planet.
This is the second part of an interview about breaking Australia鈥檚 addiction to coal between 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Zane Alcorn and retired Hunter Valley coal miner and climate activist Graham Brown.
The documentary film Stolen is now largely discredited.
It has been in the press recently for its controversial claim that slavery still exists among Saharawis in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
The New South Wales Teachers Federation annual conference was from July 12 to 14. Of the many issues discussed by delegates, two stood out as big threats to public education, requiring strong union opposition: the introduction of school league tables and attacks on special education.
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