HOBART — On April 12, the Greens introduced a bill into the Tasmanian parliament allowing for same-sex marriages and have called for a parliamentary committee to discuss the issue.
Despite calling the Greens' move "a stunt", Labor
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"We have got to demand that all foreign troops leave Iraq certainly, but let's also demand that the troops come back from the US bases around the world, not just the war zones..."
On April 1, Judith Karpova and Faith Fippinger were issued with penalty notices from the US Treasury, alleging that they had shielded "government of Iraq infrastructure" and provided services to the Iraqi government in 2003, prior to the US invasion
On behalf of the Alliance Party I would like to make a couple of comments about your April 6 article on New Zealand politics entitled "Redrawing the political map". The concern is that readers of the article may have gained the impression that New
Suadi Sulaiman Laweueng, the Free Aceh Movement's (GAM) spokesperson for the Pidie regency in north Aceh, spoke to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly about the struggle in Aceh. The interview was translated by James Balowski.
Can you explain the situation there?
On April 8, the American Civil Liberties Union commenced legal action against a Missouri public high school that disciplined a student for wearing t-shirts with gay-friendly messages. Fifteen-year-old LaStaysha Myers was twice sent home for wearing
Andrew Martin, Brisbane
"I've had a gutful of the phraseology of boxing clever, keeping the powder dry and the troops disciplined. We must discuss genuine collectivism and solidarity", Bob Carnegie, an organiser for the Queensland Builders
War is 'conflict prevention'
"The US intelligence community is drawing up a secret watch-list of 25 countries where instability might precipitate US intervention, according to officials in charge of a new office set up to co-ordinate planning for
Rohan Pearce
The April 9 anti-occupation demonstrations by supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr marked the second anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, which was probably the last time anything went as planned for Washington in its war on Iraq.
Due to lack of funds, 68% of community services are unable to help all people who seek assistance.
One out of every three times that people seek help from housing services they are turned away.
Legal services turn someone away for every six times
Stuart Munckton
According to an April 12 Venezuela Analysis <http://www.venezuelanalysis.com> article, supporters of the Movement for a Fifth Republic (MVR), Venezuela's governing party, voted in electoral primaries to establish the MVR's
Eva Cheng
Japan's escalating of territorial disputes with China and Korea — and Tokyo's latest attempt to whitewash its wartime atrocities — provoked huge protests in China and South Korea in March.
The protests snowballed in China,
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