Less than a week after Australians learned about the death of the 22nd Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan, Corporal Richard Atkinson, footage aired by Channel 7 on February 8 showed opposition leader Tony Abbott caught with his pants down.
鈥淪hit happens,鈥 Abbott told a US general during an August visit to Afghanistan as they discussed the circumstances surrounding the death of another Australian soldier 鈥 Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney.
MacKinney鈥檚 family had questioned whether the standard of the Australian Defence Force鈥檚 equipment contributed to his death.
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Across Australia, moves are afoot to pass bills to legalise same-sex marriage.
The Tasmanian Greens were first to introduce such a bill in 2008. Greens leader Nick McKim introduced the bill again in November.
The Tasmanian ALP was the first state Labor branch to announce its support for same-sex marriage, but this has not led it to support the Greens鈥 bill.
ABC news reported on November 7 that former Tasmanian Labor premier David Bartlett said: 鈥淚 have personally no opposition to same-sex marriage in Australia, but I see it as a purview of the federal parliament.鈥
The attempt by Hosni Mubarak鈥檚 regime to stop anti-government protests by shutting down the internet and mobile phone services failed to stop the popular uprising that forced the dictator out on February 11.
WikiLeaks has launched the WikiLeaks roundtable series, in which founder and editor Julian Assange addresses, in a short video, questions that people put to the organisation.
This forum aims to cut out 鈥渋ntermediaries鈥 such as the mainstream corporate media, and instead allow the whistleblowing site to speak directly with people.
The first video was published on February 6.
鈥淲e are going to put everyone on a level playing field,鈥 Assange said. 鈥淎ll members of the press and all members of the public.
More than 60 people attended a public meeting in Russell Vale, north of Wollongong, on February 3 to oppose a massive coalmine expansion in their neighbourhood.
The meeting was organised by Illawarra Residents for Responsible Mining (IRRM).
Gujurat NRE, owner of No. 1 Colliery in Russell Vale, wants to expand the colliery's current output by 7.5 times 鈥 from 400,000 tonnes a year to 3 million tonnes.
Over the decades that have marked the tenure of Egypt's "President for Life" Hosni Mubarak, there has been one consistent nexus for anger, organisation and practical experience in the ancient art of street fighting: the country's soccer clubs.
WikiLeaks has released secret US diplomatic cables that show secret Australian government negotiations to sell uranium to India, despite it not being a signature to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Other cables show the government covered up details about its spy satellite program with the US.
A leaked cable shows resources minister Martin Ferguson told US officials in 2009 that a deal to supply India with nuclear fuel could be reached within years, SMH.com.au said on February 10.
In a humble local court in Newcastle on January 31, a major battle in the war on climate change began. A court is a theatrical space where we can overhear the clashing narratives around a central event.
The defendants were six of the seven men and women from climate action group Rising Tide 鈥 dubbed the Rising Tide Seven.
Posing as workers, they entered a Newcastle coal-loading facility before dawn on September 26 and locked themselves to the equipment 30 metres above ground. Work was brought to a halt.
A new report by the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) has slammed government-owned Forests NSW for what it calls 鈥渋llegal and blatantly unsustainable logging鈥 in public lands near Coffs Harbour.
Forests NSW鈥檚 timber has been accredited as ecological and sustainable by the government-appointed accreditation body Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ) and the certification company NCS International.
Bolivian President Evo Morales praised 鈥渢he popular uprisings in Tunisia and in Egypt鈥 in his speech to the opening ceremony of the World Social Forum in the west African nation of Senegal on February 6. Morales said the uprisings were part of the 鈥渞ebellion by the peoples of the Arab countries against US imperialism鈥. 鈥淭his struggle by the people is going to be unstoppable,鈥 Morales said, 鈥渆ven though the US government provides millions and millions of dollars of financing to try and finish these social movements. 鈥淏ut this is not going to stop.鈥
Twenty years ago, on Monday February 18, 1991, the first issue of 麻豆传媒 Weekly was produced. Its full-colour poster-style cover expressed opposition to the Gulf War, the first US-led invasion of Iraq.
In the space of a few weeks, Australia and the world have been rocked by devastating weather events, from huge snowstorms across the US to flash flooding and cyclones in Australia. Many of these events have not just been catastrophic, but have set new records for weather.
Let鈥檚 pause to list some of the recent extreme weather events in Australia:
路 Serious and long-lasting floods in Queensland around Rockhampton.
路 Unprecedented flash flooding in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley.
路 The biggest floods on record in western Victoria.
路 A 100-year record flood in Brisbane.
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