Dozens of campaigners have hit Melbourne鈥檚 streets to campaign for the Hazelwood power station to be shut down. Climate action groups in the inner city are doorknocking thousands of homes every weekend to get the message across.
Hazelwood is Australia鈥檚 most polluting power station. Climate campaigners have targeted it with protests since the state government extended its operating licence until 2030. It was originally meant to be closed down and replaced in 2005.
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PERTH 鈥 On May 25, a rally was held to support a woman's right to choose abortion. The rally was attended by members of Resistance, Socialist Alliance, Socialist Alternative, the Cross Campus Queer Network, the ROAR Feminist Collective and other activists. The action was called in response to an anti-choice protest organised by Church associated groups and led by Archbishop Barry Hickey. The anti-choice action was to mark the 12th anniversary of, and protest against, the decriminalisation of abortion in Western Australia.
On May 25, 70 people protested outside the Thai embassy in Jakarta in solidarity with the pro-democracy Red Shirts in Thailand. The protest was jointly called by the Working Peoples Association (PRP), the People鈥檚 Democratic Party (PRD), the Confederation Congress of Indonesia Union Alliance (Konfederasi KASBI); the Indonesian Nasional Front for Labour Struggle (FNPBI); the National Student League for Democracy (LMND)
The federal Labor government鈥檚 freeze on processing visa applications by Afghan and Tamil asylum seekers is being challenged in many quarters.
Legal advice published by the Human Rights Law Resource Centre on May 23 said many of the factual and legal assumptions of the policy are open to 鈥渟ubstantial challenge鈥.
Lani鈥檚 Story
Review by Sanna Andrew
The documentary, Lani鈥檚 Story, follows the incredibly brave and courageous story of a young Aboriginal woman who not only endured and survived life threatening violence from her partner, but who goes on another harrowing journey long afterwards to bring the man to justice.
The real sordid scandal in New South Wales Labor politics is not transport minister David Campbell鈥檚 visit to a gay Kensington bathhouse or Channel 7鈥檚 secret videoing of it 鈥 it鈥檚 the homophobic bigotry that continues in Premier Kristina Keneally鈥檚 government.
If Campbell had left his ministerial position because of Sydney鈥檚 public transport mess, rather than being caught at Ken鈥檚 of Kensington, it would have been justified.
On June 11, South Africans will start partying like no time since liberation in April 1994. It is a huge honour for our young democracy to host the most important sporting spectacle short of the Olympics.
The ordinary people who have worked hard in preparation deserve gratitude and support 鈥 especially the construction workers, cleaners, municipal staff, health-care givers and volunteers who will not receive due recognition.
But balancing psychological benefits against vast socioeconomic and political costs is vital.
In the seemingly endless wave of disgusting prejudice that flows out of the sewer pipe that is the mainstream media, sometimes it can be pleasantly surprising how things turn out.
On May 20, Australian Football League (AFL) star Jason Akermanis said in a Herald Sun column that the football world was not ready for openly gay players, and that those thinking about outing themselves should stay in the closet.
On the same day, David Campbell resigned as NSW minister for transport after being outed by Channel 7 News, who filmed him exiting an all-male sex club.
Plans are well underway in some states for the 鈥淛ustice Bus Trips鈥 in July to Alice Springs, where a gathering in defence of Aboriginal justice and human rights activities is being organised. Support for the Aboriginal rights movement has increased steadily over the past year, spurred in no small part by the historic Alyawarr people鈥檚 walk-off.
In July 2009, the Alyawarr people walked off their community of Ampilatwatja, which was prescribed as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response 鈥 better known as the NT intervention.
On May 18, during proceedings in Fair Work Australia, negotiations ended between Ford and the Electrical Trades Union and Australian Metal Workers Metals Division over the 鈥淔ord Australia Enterprise Agreement 2009 (Skilled Trades)鈥.
The content of the agreement has been the subject of a dispute that has involved two 24-hour strikes.
The president of Haiti鈥檚 Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced on May 24 that presidential and parliamentary elections would be held on November 28, the constitutionally prescribed date.
鈥淭he CEP is up to the task of organising general elections in the country鈥, said Gaillot Dorsinvil, who is also the handicapped sector鈥檚 representative on the nine-member council, handpicked by President Rene Preval.
But tens of thousands of Haitians don鈥檛 agree and have been demonstrating in the streets in recent weeks to demand a new CEP 鈥 and Preval鈥檚 resignation.
鈥淭he life of a trade unionist in Colombia is very difficult and complex鈥, visiting union leader Edgar Paez told 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
Paez said 4000 unionists have been murdered in Colombia in 28 years. 鈥淟ast year, 47 unionists were killed, 48 the year before. Union leaders need armed guards, bulletproof cars, camera surveillance and bulletproof windows on their offices.
鈥淭hey lose the possibility of a normal family life.鈥
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