On March 25 university students and supporters of accessible education participated in National Day of Action rallies against the ongoing attacks on education. There were rallies in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Tasmania and Wollongong.
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No McDonald鈥檚 in Tecoma campaigner Richard Pearson was cleared of the charge of 鈥渄efacing a public footpath鈥 by a Melbourne Magistrates Court.
Thirty environmental, scientific and recreation groups have called on the new Victorian government to create the Great Forest National Park.
The Victoria Marine Animal Defenders (VMAD) collective organised a rally at Eastern Beach in Geelong on March 22 to protest the imminent arrival of a super trawler in Australian waters.
While the numbers at the rally were relatively few 鈥 about 60 to 70 people 鈥 it was a diverse crowd that included recreational fishers, various political parties, independent activists and members of VMAD, which is itself a collective of activists from numerous other groups.
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT REPEALS ANTI-WIND FARM LAWS
The Victorian Labor government has repealed the worst aspects of the Coalition's anti-wind farm laws.
After a strong community campaign led by Friends of the Earth, the Andrews government announced it will remove the 2km right of veto that allowed householders to block wind farms. This measure will be replaced by a 1km buffer zone.
Activists dropped a banner on cliffs off Sydney鈥檚 North Head on March 22 calling for halt to coal and gas mining.
The Abbott government's metadata retention bill passed the Senate on March 26 with Labor support 鈥 deepening the mass surveillance of the public and further undermining the ability of investigative journalists to do their jobs.
And just to really rub this attack on civil liberties in, the government is headed by an idiot who has less of a clue about the huge technology powers his law grants the state, than the Catholic Church has historically had of 鈥渄uty of care when working with children鈥.
International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD) 鈥 originally called International Working Women鈥檚 Day 鈥 was first proposed in 1910 as an initiative of the socialist women鈥檚 movement. The following year, on March 19, 1911, IWD was marked for the first time, by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.
Mesothelioma is a particularly virulent form of lung cancer. From the date of diagnosis the average life expectancy of a person with the disease is just 155 days.
There is only one way a person can contact mesothelioma: by exposure to the fine particles of asbestos dust that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
The latent period from exposure to diagnosis can be many decades. So the first battle for sufferers seeking compensation was overcoming the legal hurdle in Commonwealth and state jurisdictions known as the statute of limitations.
Representatives of the Wangan and Jagalingou people made this announcement on March 27.
The motto of the University of Wollongong (UOW) promises 鈥淧ersonalised Experiences: World Class Results鈥. It would do well to tell the public which persons in the institution availed themselves of the experience of authorising political donations of $26,175 in the last four years, and what world class results they expected.
The signature on contribution donations in 2009 was the university鈥檚 director of government relations, Canio Fierravanti, brother of Liberal Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells.
Coincidentally, 82% of the donations since late-2010 have gone to the Liberal Party.
Workers in the South Australian retail sector 鈥 particularly young, casual workers 鈥 could lose their penalty rates thanks to a deal between retail employers and the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA).
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