A fire burning in a coal seam at the Hazelwood coalmine in Victoria's Latrobe Valley caused the local Air Quality Index to reach nearly five times the amount considered 鈥渧ery poor鈥 on February 19.
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The Northern Territory's environment minister Peter Chandler has called for a government inquiry into the use of 鈥渇racking鈥 in the oil and gas industry. Currently 90% of the NT is targeted for shale gas exploration.
It鈥檚 impossible to ignore any longer just how cruel and irrational the government鈥檚 war on refugees has become after violent attacks in the Manus Island detention centre left one dead and scores injured.
About 150 people rallied outside the home of Sheila Oakley in the Brisbane suburb of Logan on February 15.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott recently toured drought stricken areas of north-west New South Wales and southern Queensland, promising that his government was close to finalising subsidies to farmers affected by the drought.
About 700 people attended a public forum called 鈥淲e are one, but we are many: Working towards a humane refugee policy鈥 hosted by the Combined Refugee Action Group (CRAG) in Geelong on February 18.
The federal Coalition government is conducting a review of Australia's Renewable Energy Target (RET), which aims to have 20% of Australia鈥檚 energy produced from renewables by 2020.
Three years ago, the Museum of Broken Relationships was set up in Zagreb by former lovers Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisi to display items symbolising the end of various personal relationships.
Murdoch Universiity administration has acted to close down student club stalls in the academic orientation week prior to classes beginning and the clubs and societies "O-day".
Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance was one club that set up a small stall on February 17. Campus security were called to remove the stall from campus.
Resistance members complied with the request and packed up the stall, settling to hand out leaflets promoting events on campus. Murdoch University then demanded the leafleting stop.
鈥淲HERE IS MURDEROUS DICTATOR #NICOLASMADURO HOLDING #LEOPOLDOLOPEZ ?IS LOPEZ TORTURED,DEAD?INSANE MONSTERS CAN鈥橳 BEAR PPL KNOWING THE TRUTH?鈥 So tweeted singer, actress and renowned Venezuelan political analyst Cher on February 19. Cher was far from the only celebrity to express support for the right-wing protests in Venezuela, and such tweets symbolise how much the source of disinformation and attacks on Venezuela and its democracy has shifted from mainstream to social media.
The High Court declared last year's senate election in Western Australia void on February 20. Western Australians will head to the polls as early as March 29 to re-elect six senators, because after 1300 ballots went missing during the count, it was impossible to determine the last two senate spots from the election.
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