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The Cowie ward voters in Geelong have shifted their votes from Labor to conservative candidate Eddy Kontelj by a landslide in the by-election declared on March 8.

On March 8, the 麻豆传媒 Weekly website received a Top 10 Award from the web analytics company Hitwise.

A Bolivian social program that prevents the deaths of two mothers a day from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth is making headway despite administrative difficulties.
Politicians from the Coalition and Labor Party are proposing nearly identical housing polices for remote Aboriginal communities 鈥 and both ignore the experiences of Aboriginal people themselves.
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.
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.
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.