Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party won a clear victory in Britain's May 7 general elections. In Scotland, however, the Scottish National Party dramatically rose from six seats to 56 out of 59, in a clear sign of opposition to the brutal austerity backed by the major parties in Westminster.
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ADELAIDE
Come to the National Sorry Day: Stolen Generations track home on Tuesday May 26 at 10.30am 鈥 2.30pm. Join the Stolen Generations calling for reparations with speakers, music, bbq and drinks. Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga. Ph John Browne 0431 234 561.
BRISBANE
Join the Rally for the future: Lock the gate on Thursday May 21 at 10am. Speakers鈥 Corner, outside Parliament House, George St.
BENDIGO
Come to a rally to stop the community closures on Friday May 15 at 4.30pm. Rosalind Park.
MELBOURNE
In The Company Of Cowards: Bush, Howard & Injustice at Guantanamo
Michael Mori
Viking, 2014
292 pages, $29.99 (pb)
Murder At Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant鈥檚 Pursuit Of The Truth About Guantanamo Bay
Joseph Hickman
Simon & Schuster, 2015
245 pages, $29.99 (pb)
Major Michael Mori was a Republican-leaning, US military lawyer who 鈥渆mbraced the values I had been taught in scouts, sports, high school, college, law school and the Marines鈥 鈥 above all the ideal of fair play.
President Rafael Correa led some 55,000 workers into Santo Domingo plaza. Photo: TeleSUR.
May Day celebrations in Quito took on a divided political nature with two marches happening simultaneously, .
The University of Western Australia (UWA) cancelled the contract for Bjorn Lomborg鈥檚 Consensus Centre on May 8 after a "passionate emotional reaction" to the plan.
In a statement, said the creation of the centre had attracted "mixed reactions" from staff, students and the general public.
"The scale of the strong and passionate emotional reaction was one that the university did not predict," he said.
The Global Tamil Forum issued a statement on May 1 evaluating the first months of in office of Sri Lanka's new president Maithripala Sirisena.
In presidential elections in January, Sirisena defeated the incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa, who had presided over a genocidal war against the Tamil people and then kept them under military occupation.
The GTF praised Sirisena for amending the Sri Lankan constitution to cut the power of the president and increase the power of parliament.
Evo Morales. Photo: ABI 鈥 Agencia Boliviana de Informaci贸n.
Bolivia's left-wing president Evo Morales announced various salary rises on May 1 in honour of International Workers鈥 Day, . The national minimum wage will increase by 15% from US$208 to $239 a month and the general salary by 8.5%.
The Land and Environment Court has upheld Wendy Bowman鈥檚 right to refuse a coal company access to her land; Legislation passed on May 5 bans cattle from grazing in Victorian Alpine and River Red Gum national parks and;聽A Fast Track High Court in Accra, Ghana has ordered the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to halt all the production and sale of genetically modified (GM) products in the country.
During his visit to Sri Lanka, Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton said the transfer of refugees to Cambodia would 鈥渉appen very shortly鈥.
Dutton said he wanted to send 鈥渁 small group鈥 to the south-east Asian country to 鈥渟end a clear message to the remaining people on Nauru that Cambodia is an appropriate option to consider to start a new life鈥.
The Australian government has been trying to persuade refugees held on Nauru to volunteer to settle in Cambodia, which signed a deal with Australia to take refugees in exchange for aid.
This statement was released by the executive committee of Left Unity, a left-wing party in Britain formed after a call by film-maker Ken Loach for a new party to the left of Labour in 2013, in response to the May 7 general election won by Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party.
When thousands of people hit Melbourne's streets on May 1 to protest planned closures of Aboriginal communities, the Herald Sun followed up its front page denunciation of with under the headline: 鈥淪till Selfish. Still A Rabble.鈥
I fanatically loved the critically acclaimed Baltimore-based television drama The Wire, which ran for five seasons from 2002-08. It is difficult to even imagine my pop-cultural brain without the presence of Omar Little, Stringer Bell, Bunk and 鈥淢cNutty鈥.
When I started doing my sports radio show eight years ago, I scheduled interviews with as many of the actors as I could for no other reason than I wanted to breathe their air. Talking to Michael K Williams about the method of Omar's 鈥渓ong game鈥 while he aggressively chewed on a sandwich will forever remain a career highlight.
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