January 26 is the first Invasion Day (Australia Day) since the federal Labor government made the official apology recognising the wrongs suffered by the Stolen Generations - the Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families and lands.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared the Andean nation to be free from illiteracy, according to a December 22 Granma report.
The Indigenous community at Mona Mona, a former mission near Kuranda, 30 kilometres west of Cairns, are continuing their remarkable four-decade-long occupation.
Alice Springs, the heart and pulse of Australia. While that is true in terms of location, few Australians know very much about their heart.
鈥淲e want to believe we are safe here 鈥 but the bottom line is that I鈥檝e lost confidence in the Israeli side and that needs to be restored urgently, and it is their duty to restore this confidence鈥, United National Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) head John Ging told AP on January 13.
On January 1, 2009, the small island nation of Cuba celebrated the 50th anniversary of a revolution that overthrew a brutal dictatorship and set Cuba on its long and often complicated road towards socialism.
According to recent Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) figures, another 40 million people were pushed into poverty and hunger in 2008 as a result of spiralling food prices. he total number of people suffering hunger and malnutrition has reached 963 million worldwide.
Aboriginal activists launched a 聯peace walk聰 on January 9 from Sydney to the steps of Parliament House in Canberra in protest against the continuation of the NT intervention and the mining of nuclear materials on Aboriginal land 聴 policies that they label 聯Rudd聮s betrayal of Aboriginal people聰.
Around 6 million signatures, in support of a referendum to amend Venezuela鈥檚 constitution and allow all elected public officials to stand for indefinite re-election, were handed over to the National Assembly on January 16.
If authoritative, peer-reviewed science suddenly found obesity or smoking to be twice as lethal as earlier believed, would the news be all over the media? Of course it would.
Indigenous people living in remote communities in northern and central Australia will be among the hardest hit by climate change, according to an article in the Medical Journal of Australia on January 5.
The statement below was issued on January 15 by the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN). For more information, visit . Since this statement was released, the Ecuadorian government of President Rafael Correa has condemned Israel's "crimes against humanity" and advocated sanctions be applied. In the Arab world, Qatar and Mauritania have suspended diplomatic and economic ties with Israel.
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