Right-wing, religiously driven sex education policies introduced by the administration of president George Bush Jnr have had disastrous results for the sexual and reproductive health of US youth, a July 17 report by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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More than 200 council workers and their supporters joined sacked council workers Mick Van Beek and Peter Anderson in Johnston Park, Geelong on the morning of July 28.
Environment groups are organising a 鈥減eaceful community mass civil disobedience鈥 at the Hazelwood coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley on September 13.
The following article was submitted by Jane Addison as part of an ongoing debate around population and climate change. Addison is a member of Sustainable Population Australia. The article is written in a personal capacity.
MELBOURNE鈥 Locked-out Hazelwood power station workers and supporters staged a protest outside International Power鈥檚 offices on July 31. The Latrobe Valley emergency service officers employed by contractor Diamond Protection, were locked out after taking industrial action over a claim for pay parity.
Months after the murder of prominent journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in Sri Lanka, more journalists have been attacked as part of the Sri Lankan government鈥檚 war on free speech.
鈥淗elp us, do something for us 鈥 but the way we want them to be done. Talk to us鈥, Alice Springs town camp resident Audrey McCormack pleaded of ALP conference delegates.
Speakers from Micronesia, Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Torres Strait Islands described how climate change affects their everyday lives at meetings of 180 people in Brisbane on July 28 and 170 people in Melbourne on July 30
MELBOURNE鈥 On July 29, 40 supporters of Aboriginal rights gathered in front of the ALP Victorian headquarters in West Melbourne. They protested against the federal ALP government鈥檚 planned takeover of the Alice Springs town camps.
Siddique Abdullah Hasan is on death row in Ohio. He is one of the Lucasville Five, prisoners railroaded onto death row after a 1993 prison rebellion against abuses by prison authorities. Below, he writes about the July 21 execution in Ohio of Marvallous Keene 鈥 the 1000th prisoner to be executed by lethal injection in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
鈥淲e've had the gun at our head.鈥 This is what William Tilmouth, Tangentyere Council CEO, said in response to Aboriginal affairs minister Jenny Macklin's triumphant July 29 announcement that the council had agreed to lease Alice Springs town camps to the federal government for 40 years in exchange for $135 million in housing upgrades
鈥淚f you are still in the Labor Party today, you should be ashamed of yourself鈥, 71-year-old Aboriginal activist Pat Eatock called out to delegates entering the stage-managed proceedings of the first day of the ALP national conference.
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