The issue of marriage equality is steadily gaining traction among the Australia population. Seventy-five percent of Australians expect same-sex marriage to be made legal a 2011 Galaxy Poll found.
The same research said 62% of Australians support marriage equality; the number is as high as 80% among younger people. The poll also said 78% of Australians believe there should be a conscience vote in parliament on the issue.
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鈥淎 White House investigation 鈥 uncovered a culture of complacency, cost-cutting and systemic failures and companies unprepared to deal with accidents and consequences.鈥
That was how ABC News on January 18 summed up the findings of the US inquiry into last year鈥檚 disaster at BP鈥檚 Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
The explosion caused 11 deaths, and unleashed the worst accidental marine oil spill in history. About 4.9 million barrels of oil escaped over nearly three months before the well was capped.
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist and author of My Israel Question and The Blogging Revolution. 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Simon Butler asked Loewenstein about recent attempts to intimidate supporters of the boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS) campaign against Israel.
Renowned Marxist economist and ecologist John Bellamy Foster is a feature guest speaker at the , which will take place in Melbourne over September 30 to October 3.
He spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Peter Boyle about capitalism鈥檚 growing economic and environmental contradictions.
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Ian Angus is a veteran of the socialist and environmental movements in Canada and internationally. He is a featured guest speaker at the , which will take place in Melbourne, from September 30 to October 3.
Angus is the founder and editor of , an online journal that focuses on capitalism, ecology and the ecosocialist alternative.
A protest planned for October 28 at the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit (CHOGM) received wide media attention on August 23. This came after The West Australian ran an article under the inflammatory 鈥淧rotesters vow to break CHOGM security lines鈥.
A was titled 鈥淩ally would be test of new powers鈥.
There鈥檚 been much hoo-haa about cannabis possession lately in Western Australia, because now, if you are found with鈥10鈥痮r more grams of鈥痠t, 鈥痽ou鈥檙e a criminal.
As of August 1, just 10 grams 鈥 rather than the 30-gram amount under the previous Labor government 鈥 can land you a maximum $2000 fine or two years鈥 jail. Heavy, right?
And to top it off, those caught will receive a nice little criminal record to go with it. Get caught with less than 10 grams and you are in for a mandatory counselling session.
The new penalties have sparked an outcry from responsible users across the state.
About 100 people gathered on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on August 21 to show their support for the student movement in Chile, which is campaigning for free education.
As protests and strikes for free education rock the country, more than two dozen high school students have launched a hunger strike until the Chilean government agrees to make public education free.
A solidarity protest also took place in Brisbane鈥檚 West End on August 20 in support of the hunger strikers.
More than 100 people demonstrated in Sydney on August 26 to mark the 45th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off, when Gurindji workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station and launched an eight-year protest for land rights that helped define the modern Aboriginal land rights movement.
The protest, organised by the Stop The Intervention Collective Sydney, took place outside the electorate office of federal Minister for Social Inclusion Tanya Plibersek. The rally called for an end to the discriminatory Northern Territory intervention.
A group of protesters chanted "Refugees are welcome here, free the refugees" outside the Hotel Grand Chancellor on August 26 while Prime Minister Julia Gillard addressed the Institute of Public Administration conference inside.
The Socialist Alliance鈥檚 Jenny Forward told the rally: 鈥淲ith Pontville Detention Centre about to open down here, we want to keep the pressure up on the government to come up with a much more humane approach to refugee processing and resettlement.
The Strategic Review of Indigenous Expenditure was submitted to the government in February 2010 but only made public on August 7 after a long-running freedom of information case brought by Channel 7. Queensland Murri activist and Socialist Alliance spokesperson Sam Watson spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Jim McIlroy about the report鈥檚 findings.
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, the seat of Malaysia鈥檚 federal government, was built for more than US$8 billion as a fantasy project of the country鈥檚 former PM and strongman Mohamed Mahathir.
It was carved out of rubber plantation-covered hills in the 1990s and turned into a planned city for public servants.
Many buildings were designed to look like palaces 鈥 with an eclectic mix of styles from around the world 鈥 giving the city the look of a sprawling, but spookily empty, theme park.
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