Jess Moore is running in the Australian federal election 2010 for the lower house seat of Cunningham.
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When right-wing billionaire Ricardo Martinelli was elected Panama鈥檚 president in May 2009, political commentators heralded it as a sign that Latin Americans were becoming disillusioned with the 鈥減ink tide鈥 of progressive and leftist governments.
But one year later, the Martinelli government is facing a wave of resistance to its anti-labour and anti-union laws. Resistance has grown in the face of deadly repression.
Two recent reports, released by NASA and the US National Climate Data Centre, have confirmed that last month was the warmest June since records began.
June was the fourth consecutive month that had broken temperature records, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said. Global monthly records were also broken in March, April and May.
June was the 304th month in a row that recorded a global average temperature higher than the 20th century average. February 1985 was the last month temperatures fell below the average.
Anti-war campaigners have challenged British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to act on his belief that the invasion of Iraq was illegal by making sure those responsible were tried for war crimes, including former PM Tony Blair.
Clegg, from the Liberal Democrats, shocked his pro-war Conservative Party coalition partners on July 21 when he declared the US-led invasion 鈥渋llegal鈥. Clegg was standing in for Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron for prime minister鈥檚 questions in parliament.
Chasing the Lollyman
Presented by deBASE Productions
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
鈥淢ove them along!鈥, referring to police strategies to deal with loitering Aboriginal people on Australia鈥檚 urban streets, was a phrase parodied to hilarity by Mark Sheppard during his acclaimed one-man show, Chasing the Lollyman, which ran at the State Library of Queensland during NAIDOC Week.
Germany鈥檚 Federal Administrative Court ruled on July 21 that the Verfassungsschutz 鈥 Germany鈥檚 domestic spy agency 鈥 had a right to spy on the left-wing party Die Linke.
Bodo Ramelow, Die Linke鈥檚 leader in the eastern state of Thuringia and others were appealing against the agency spying on them. The justification for the spying are claims Die Linke contained 鈥渁nti-constitutional鈥 elements because of its origins in the former East German state.
The global carbon market, which trades 鈥減ollution rights鈥 to encourage industry to cut greenhouse gas emissions, grew in 2009. Far from signaling a success, this reflects a huge increase in fraud, the dumping of surplus emissions permits by industry, and a rise in financial speculation.
鈥淲hat the hell did we do to deserve this?鈥, BP CEO Tony Hayward asked fellow executives in the company鈥檚 London office, days after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the April 29 New York Times said.
Eleven workers died in the explosion that has generated the US鈥檚 worst ever environmental disaster.
BP finally managed to place a cap over the well on July 15, although its status remains tenuous. Associated Press reported seepage detected from the cap on July 21.
Myth: Public opinion on abortion is deeply divided
Australians support access to abortion 鈥 for three decades, opinion polls have consistently shown that most Australians support women鈥檚 right to choose and believe that forcing a woman to have an unwanted child is worse than allowing abortion.
Myth: The charges against the Cairns couple relate to drug importation or the fact they didn鈥檛 see a doctor.
On July 17, the Adelaide-based Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN SA) hosted a forum in Port Augusta detailing the Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Stationary Energy Plan recently launched by Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE).
October 12 is the trial date set for a young Cairns couple charged with procuring an abortion.
According to Dr Caroline de Costa in a book released this month, Never Ever Again 鈥hy Australian Abortion Law Needs Reform, no woman has previously been charged with procuring her own abortion since the 1899 criminal code was first decreed in Queensland.
De Costa believes this could be the first trial of its kind in Australia鈥檚 history.
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