鈥淣ations cannot realise the full promise of independence until they fully protect the rights of their people,鈥 Barrack Obama, president of the United States, said on tour to Kenya and Ethiopia last year. This is ironic, because on that trip he failed to criticise human rights abuses by the Ethiopian government, which he hailed as 鈥渄emocratically elected鈥.
Ethiopians are very familiar with the government鈥檚 attempts to oppress any opposition. The Tigrayan People鈥檚 Liberation Front (TPLF) government took power in 1991. All opponents are persecuted as terrorist collaborators.
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A by-election in the Single Member Constituency of Bukit Batok, which has about 25,000 eligible voters, is needed following the resignation of the People's Action Party (PAP) MP David Ong on March 14.
The PAP has ruled Singapore since 1959, when it was still a British colony. Its rule has relied on a combination of independent Singapore鈥檚 affluence in comparison with its neighbours and political repression.
Ong won 72% of the vote in the September鈥檚 general elections, defeating the Singapore Democratic Party鈥檚 (SDP) Sadasivam Veriyah (26.4%) and independent Samir Salim Neji (0.6%).
PostCapitalism: A Guide To Our Future
By Paul Mason
Allen Lane, 2015, 340 pp., $49.99 (hb)
Paul Mason is a well-known British economics journalist, who made a name for himself with commentary on the BBC and more lately on Channel 4. PostCapitalism has created a big splash in Britain, where it has been widely reviewed and debated.
Teachers protest outside the front of the Chicago Public Schools headquarters.
Chicago teachers staged a one-day strike on April 1 in a bid to get lawmakers to adequately fund education and other programs in the United States' third-largest school district.
Where To Invade Next
Written & directed by Michael Moore
Michael Moore has made another poignant, funny and politically sharp movie.
In spite of the title, it has little to do with US foreign policy. In Where to Invade Next, the documentary filmmaker behind Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine goes after social problems that continue to plague the US, like homelessness and lack of health care 鈥 and shows that the US could learn a lot from the rest of the world.
In 2008, the then-Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Jay Weatherill announced a review of the South Australian Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988.
After initial intensive activity there was a long period of inactivity. Then, suddenly last month, with little notice or consultation, draft legislation to amend the Aboriginal Heritage Act was introduced into state parliament. On March 22, having passed through the Legislative Council, the House of Assembly agreed to the bill without any amendment.
The Daily Telegraph exposed the latest example of political correctness gone mad by revealing in a March 30 that the University of New South Wales is teaching students that Australia was 鈥渋nvaded鈥 by Britain and was not actually 鈥渄iscovered鈥 by Captain James Cook.
Opponents of Shenhua-Watermark's mega coalmine in the Liverpool Plains in north-western NSW have been given a boost by the Chinese government-owned company's annual report released on March 24, which hinted it may not proceed.
That the Australian government can find $6 million to fund a film aimed at convincing asylum seekers to not come to Australia and yet cut more than $50 million from Screen Australia speaks volumes about its priorities.
The Socialist Alliance released this statement on March 30.
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Ken Canning, lead Senate candidate for Socialist Alliance in the federal election described the Daily Telegraph's condemnation of the University of NSW's Diversity Toolkit 鈥 guidelines for appropriate language to describe Indigenous history 鈥 as 鈥渢he usual type of Neanderthal reporting鈥.
鈥淣ews.com slams the term 'invasion' when referring to James Cook's arrival in 1770.
鈥淒oes the Daily Telegraph seriously think Aboriginal people laid out the red carpet for him?
Protesters have demanded the reinstatement of the United States鈥 Voting Rights Act of 1965, a complete count of provisional ballots in Arizona鈥檚 March 22 presidential primaries and a public random recount of unsorted mail ballots in the state, .
In all the media hype about Malcolm Turnbull's recalling of parliament in April and talk of a double dissolution election, it is easy to lose sight of the 鈥渢rigger鈥 鈥 the Australian Building and Construction Commission bill (ABCC bill). I recently heard an ABC Radio National commentator talking about the use of the ABCC bill as the trigger.
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