Young Queenslanders for the Right to Choose organised a public forum attended by up to 150 people in the Queensland Parliament House on July 12. A similar forum took place in Cairns the next night. Full audio of the forum can be found above.
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US soldier Chelsea Manning, jailed for handing over classified files to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks, was hospitalised, her attorney said on July 6. The comment came after media reports that Manning had attempted suicide.
One of Manning's attorneys, Nancy Hollander, said she was outraged over the release of her client's confidential medical information to the media.
A truck bomb exploded in Baghdad on July 3, killing at least 292 people and wounding hundreds of others. The bombing, for which ISIS claimed responsibility, had the highest death toll of any terrorist bombing in Iraq since the US, Britain and Australia invaded the country in 2003.
President Barack Obama, calling Afghanistan's security situation precarious, said on July 6 he would keep US soldier levels in the country at 8400 through the end of his administration. He had pledged to cut soldier numbers to 5500 by the year's end.
Obama's plan still calls for a cut in US soldier levels from the current roughly 9800.
French unions protested on July 5 as the government forced a bill attacking workers鈥 rights through a hostile parliament. 鈥淭his is a counter-productive law, socially and economically,鈥 said Marie-Jose Kotlicki, a member of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). 鈥淭he government is making a mistake in underestimating the level of discontent over this law.鈥
French unions protested on July 5 as the government forced a bill attacking workers鈥 rights through a hostile parliament.
鈥淭his is a counter-productive law, socially and economically,鈥 said Marie-Jose Kotlicki, a member of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). 鈥淭he government is making a mistake in underestimating the level of discontent over this law.鈥
The victory of the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union (鈥淏rexit鈥) in the June 23 referendum was the result of 鈥 and is intensifying 鈥 a huge right-wing anti-immigration campaign.
In response to the revelations of wholesale tax evasion in the Panamanian tax haven, Oxfam International launched an international campaign advocating for the eradication of tax havens and fiscal opacity.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, has become the first head of state to actively sign, endorse and promote Oxfam鈥檚 letter and campaign. The Ecuadorian leader has reaffirmed his commitment to push the changes advocated by the campaign from his position as president.
Destruction wrought by Turkish state in Diyarbak谋r.
Three-hundred-and-fifty thousand. That is the number of people displaced since the Kurdish-Turkish 鈥渞esolution process鈥 was interrupted by the Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an last year.
The entire population of Burma supported Aung San Suu Kyi when she fought to get rid of the military dictatorship of Burma (Myanmar) during the 1990s.
She received tremendous support from all communities, including non-Buddhist ethnicities and Muslim communities. No one considered what her policy on other religions and ethnic areas was. People just wanted to get rid of the regime.
While international media floods to cover the killing of police officers in the United States, the deaths of Latinos often go unnoticed. The police killings of Black men Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, which have sparked angry protests, have also justly occupied the news waves, but the death of four Latinos this week slipped by.
The 2016 federal election has confirmed the continuing decline of Australia's two-party system. The relative stability that characterised the decades after World War II was shaped by a phase of unprecedented economic growth, record low unemployment and mass home ownership. But that is long gone, in fact it was an aberration. Our system of single member electorates helped paper over the current period of rising economic insecurity, but inevitably politics is catching up.
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