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1. Sexual assault on campus limits access to education

   “watered-down” and “whitewashed”. It painted a very rosy picture of college life. Like the AHRC’s survey, the ...

2. Morrison’s hand-out to developers no solution to housing affordability crisis

   Australia analysed abnormally low water consumption over 12 months to determine the number of speculative ... water a day. Those using zero litres of water increased by an amazing 70%. “This is clear evidence land ...

3. New deep sea mining technique a threat in the Pacific

   Water is heated in the Earth's crust by magma and rises up through fissures, venting into the ocean ... Contaminated sea water would also have to be dumped. Lockheed Martin, Soil Machine Dynamics, IHC Mining and ... area as sediments are disturbed and tossed into the water column. Unknown consequences Speaking to ...

4. Sydney Film Festival showcases political films

   fight to stop water being privatised in Bolivia. Spanish director Iciar Bollain uses the plot device of ... interrupted with the present day struggle against the privatisation of water. So it’s a film within a film. ... invasion in 1512, is in reality a leader of the huge struggle against the privatisation of water in ...

5. Haiti: Human-made humanitarian disaster follows storms

   Much of Gonaives remains under water. At least 80% of the estimated 300,000 residents have been ... without food or drinking water. Many are making do sleeping on rooftops, with their animals and furniture, ... waiting for the water level to drop. Throughout Haiti, bridges, roads, clinics and homes have been washed ...

6. ZIMBABWE: Four days inside Mugabe's prisons

   for raising banners demanding food and water. The following is my testimony. * * * The demonstration ... detained from Tuesday evening to Friday evening. Chitungwiza hasn't had running water for three ... months. So we were detained at a place that had no water and no working toilets. We were packed in tiny ...

7. Oppose Labor's uranium push!

   "regulated" releases of water contaminated with radium as well as non-radioactive toxins are part of standard ... of contaminated water every wet season into the fragile and globally significant ecosystem of the ... Kakadu's water, plants and animals. The threat to human health by this radioactive pollution was ...

8. Howard's refugee lies exposed, criticism mounts

   asylum seekers then threw their children, wearing life jackets, into the water. Howard and Labor leader ... showed asylum seekers in the water, questions were raised about the evidence for the allegations. ... at it and it is an absolute fact, the children were thrown into the water". However, on November ...

9. US genocide in Iraq

   they've got no milk: they're malnourished too. They feed them sugar dissolved in water, and they get ... That's only part of the problem, said, Howarth. There is no clean water, no potable tap water in Iraq. ... The drinking water comes mostly from the Tigris River; crossing many times, she noticed its brown ...

10. Oceans without fish

    troubles: (1) fisherman are adopting new technologies that (2) allow them to fish in deeper waters, and (3) ... pull nylon nets thousands of metres long through the water, capturing everything in their path — 350 ... to fish waters as deep as 1.6 km, catching species that few would have considered edible or useful ...

11. Nitrogen a global problem

    — and function best in — soils and waters containing low levels of available nitrogen. By doubling the ... ground water, nitrogen-saturated forests, burning of grasses and forests, land clearing for crops and ... on land tends to move into nearby waters, carrying with it calcium and magnesium from the soil. Both ...

12. Chito; a short story

    barefooted, weighed down by the two cans of water slung from a slender pole that was raising a raw welt on his ... had to do things to keep them happy. One was dissatisfied and threw boiling water on him. He still had ... Drugs were really kids stuff, he had to feed a family. He put down the water cans on the earthen floor ...

13. Czechoslovakia: Greens organise to save what's left

    blocks, belching black smoke all over them. The water is not much better: it tastes like a kind of heavy ... and poisoning from fertilisers); improved water purification, and so on. Recycling Ecocaste is ... which needs vast quantities of water twice a year. The local Rainbow Movement and the Moravian section ...

14. Plutonium ship endangers millions

    international waters, but they've said that they don't want it to go through there, and it would ... of protest, the Australian delegate had the whole resolution watered down. Greenpeace believes that ... spent nuclear fuel shipments through the waters of the South Pacific region. Our government is talking ...

15. World scientists' warning to humanity

    humans, forests, and crops. Water Resources: Heedless exploitation of depletable ground water supplies ... waters have resulted in serious shortages in some 80 countries, containing 40% of the world's ... population. Pollution of rivers, lakes, and ground water further limits the supply. Oceans: Destructive ...

16. Hurricane Irma lays bare France’s Venezuela hypocrisy

    clothing, mattresses, potable water and non-perishable food, was being done within “a framework of respect ...

17. John Pilger: We are all suspects now

    Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Ho ...

18. Women’s Boat to Gaza stopped by Israel as US approves new military aid

    seized the boat and detained the 13 human rights activists aboard in international waters about 65km away ...

19. Hunt family stands up for Lawler’s Well

    songlines and then studied the water cycle with a teacher of Landscape Repair. I locked on and was arrested ... in Biliga for trying to save the water of the Great Artesian Basin. Still nothing happened. After ... action on climate change and for protection of land, water and air from fossil fuel industries. And ...

20. Adani lobbyist rejoins Queensland Labor's campaign team

    favouring Adani, such as the royalty holiday and water permits, indicate the influence of the special ...

21. Manus Island protests defy Australia

    protests were launched in the detention centre. When Australia cut off the power and water, people ...

22. The No campaign has been so absurd, where is left for them to go?

    muddy the waters to sow confusion and uncertainty among soft supporters of marriage equality. In the ...

23. Blacktown residents say ‘no’ to proposed incinerator

    home-grown food, drinking rain water and skin absorption of pollutants. Next Generation NSW admits the new ...

24. Medevac seriously ill asylum seeker on Nauru? No, tell him to write a will

    has run out of drinking water and is unable to travel to get more, nor does he feel it is safe to send ... his young sons alone. Service providers have said they will not provide him with safe drinking water ...

25. Manus refugees’ desperate appeal for help

    has already cut power and water from some compounds. We fear they could be planning similar cuts to ...

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