On July 2, Bolivia held historic elections for representatives to a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the constitution, fulfilling what has long been a key demand of Bolivia's indigenous poor and social movements. President Evo Morales and his party,
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MELBOURNE — Engineers cannot ignore the social impact of their work and must take responsibility for it, Monash University professor Don Schauder told 45 engineers and others attending the first Australian meeting of the Society on the Social
Peter Boyle
I'll tell you all the news.I lived in a suburb,a suburb of Madrid, with bells,and clocks, and trees ...And one morning all that was burning,one morning the bonfiresleapt out of the earthdevouring human beings —and from then on
On July 17 PM John Howard, in an address to the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) at the Sydney Convention Centre, outlined his "vision" for Australia's energy future. "As an efficient, reliable supplier, Australia has a
Israel's incessant and indiscriminate bombardment of Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 is an outright act of terrorism. It is a continuation of the Israeli state's ongoing war against the Palestinian
Refugees
At a recent Politics in the Pub forum in Sydney, a cheer went up when a speaker, Phil Glendenning (director of the Edmund Rice Centre) said: "We must internationalise this issue." That issue is the ill-treatment of refugees in Australia.
Jen Jewel Brown
Early on July 6, Lisa Bellear said goodnight and went to bed at her home in Brunswick. That morning, the widely admired, clean living, apparently healthy Minjungbul woman was dead. She was barely 45, and the coroner reported that
Jose Pertierra
Cuba calls the shots; and Venezuela pays the bills. That is the major premise underlying the report made public on July 10 by the US State Department concerning Cuba. Its findings are as much about the Bush administration's plans for
Magali and Brian McDuffie
Opponents of a new bypass through Tugun, in northern NSW, say the state-federal supported development will endanger hundreds of species of plants and animals and ride roughshod over an important Aboriginal site, the
Kerryn Williams
Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez condemned Israel's bombing of Lebanon, commenting that "They are bombing entire cities, it is a true genocide. Where will this madness end?", according to a July 21 VHeadline.com report.
Fred Fuentes
Several hundred participants in this year's Students of Sustainability conference marched through the streets of central Brisbane on July 14 to celebrate the conclusion of the conference.
The marchers raised awareness of some of the
The National Union of Workers has condemned a decision by Nestle to shed 44 jobs — one-third of its work force — at the Purina PetCare factory in the small central-western NSW town of Blayney.
NUW state secretary Derrick Belan said on July 20
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