On March 21, US President Barack Obama will depart on a short tour of the Asia-Pacific region. His main destinations will be Indonesia and Australia, but the trip will include a brief stopover in Guam.
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Freedom to hate 鈥 injustice Regarding Steve Gumerundji Hodder's article, "Freedom to hate is not free speech" (GLW828). I believe we do have the freedom to hate injustice, tyranny, cruelty and racism, and to say so. I think, too, that the
鈥淓arth Hour鈥 will be held around the world on March 27. The event is organised by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and involves participants switching off their lights for the hour as a symbolic declaration of support for environmental action.
Two Afghan and nine Tamil asylum seekers faced Christmas Island magistrates court on March 11. They pleaded not guilt to all charges related to a so-called riot in the Christmas Island detention centre last November.
On March 11, 40 people attended a public forum about fighting the Western Australian government鈥檚 proposed 鈥渟top and search鈥 laws.
Despite the fanfare about Asia鈥檚 鈥渕iracle鈥 economies, the problem of 鈥渕issing women and girls鈥 is actually growing, the United Nations Development Program-sponsored 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report said.
Redistributing wealth from big business to the community through welfare payments is not what one would expect from opposition leader Tony Abbott.
Western Australia needs a broad and inclusive mass movement to stop the Barnett government鈥檚 push to privatise public services and smash public sector workers鈥 conditions.
More than 1500 women marched in Lahore from Nasir Bagh to the Punjab Assembly, under the banner of the Women Workers鈥 Help Line (WWHL) to celebrate International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD) on March 8.
Witness Roy Bramwell told the re-opened inquest into Aboriginal man Mulrunji Doomadgee鈥檚 death on March 8 that police threatened to 鈥渃ome after him鈥, as they crushed his original damning witness statement and threw it in the bin.
The Sandon Point community, on the New South Wales south coast, has been fighting for decades to protect the area from developers. Sandon Point is a declared Aboriginal site, significant for ecological and historical reasons and valued as public open space.
More than 40 people marked International Women鈥檚 Day on March 8 with a celebration of women鈥檚 music at the Newcastle Resistance Centre.
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