An enthusiastic audience of 60 attended a public meeting on July 23 to hear the environmental, social and economic case for opposing the Queensland government聮s decision to construct a dam on the Mary River.
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On July 25, the Queensland Teachers' Union announced that around 500 teachers from remote parts of the state, including the Torres Strait, will take part in 24-hour stop-work actions.
Three months after the historic April elections to the constituent assembly that has created a republic, Nepal finally has its first president.
Dramatic events within the worldwide Anglican Communion have revealed a 鈥渃old split鈥 with the potential for a complete collapse of the Episcopal formation.
A team of three experienced activists will contest the September 13 local government elections in Blacktown for the Socialist Alliance.
When federal environment minister Peter Garrett paid a visit to a Sydney public primary school last term he discovered that the school had installed enough solar panels to supply three-quarters of its electricity needs.
鈥淭he ABCC [Australian Building and Construction Commission] should be abolished 鈥 and its powers should be subsumed by the Workplace Authority and its successor, Fair Work Australia鈥, Professor Ron McCallum AO from the law faculty at the University of Sydney told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on July 22.
Qantas chief executive officer Geoff Dixon announced on July 18 that the company will sack 1500 workers by December and that its plan to hire 1200 more people has been cancelled. The sackings include 99 workers in Qantas call centres in London and Tucson, Arizona, when those centres are shut down.
The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings
By Robert Fisk
Fourth Estate, 2008
522 pages, $30 (pb)
By Robert Fisk
Fourth Estate, 2008
522 pages, $30 (pb)
Muslim Aid raids
Three weeks after the Australian's Richard Kerbaj whipped up a storm over humanitarian aid by a Sydney-based charity to the suffering people of Gaza, we find our own federal police jumping at this organisation in what seems to be
Wollongong residents are campaigning to defend their community and environment from profit-driven developers and bureaucratic cover-ups.
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