Officials of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) thanked members of the international observation team on March 16 for their work in limiting electoral fraud committed by the previous ruling right-wing Arena party in the presidential elections on March 15.
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The scientist appointed by the federal government to monitor the environmental impact of the Northern Territory聮s Ranger uranium mine, Alan Hughes, confirmed at a March 12 Senate hearing that contaminated water was leaking into rock fissures beneath Kakadu National Park.
Following a series of anti-government protests that were brutally repressed 聴 with more than 100 people killed since January 26 聴 the military forced the corrupt and brutal Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana to step down.
The detail of PM Kevin Rudd鈥檚 election promise of an 鈥渆ducation revolution鈥 in higher education is finally coming to light: privatisation, deregulation and increased competition between institutions.
Australian agriculture both contributes to climate change and is adversely affected by it. Any campaign in to force urgent government action on climate change has to include a demand for the radical transformation of rural land use and farming systems to be ecologically sustainable.
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The Maldives government has announced the country will transform its economy to become carbon neutral by 2020.
In the aftermath of the killing of two British soldiers and one Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer by so-called dissident republicans, opposed to the peace process in the six counties in Ireland鈥檚 north still claimed by Britain, right-wing and reactionary forces have sought to use the killings to whip up anti-republican hysteria and attack civil liberties.
A March 18 emergency community meeting called by the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee attracted more than 35 people.
ARMIDALE 聴 Thirty people discussed the economic and environmental crises at a public forum organised by the New England Socialist Alliance (SA) branch on March 12.
Mitch, an inspiring Arrernte/Luritja author, poet and artist, and an important voice against the NT Intervention, together with Sam Watson, well-known Aboriginal activist, Brisbane community activist and Socialist Alliance national spokesperson on Indigenous rights, will feature on a panel titled 鈥淔rom Invasion to Intervention: Indigenous Australians speak out鈥.
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