Progressive candidate and renowned disability activist from the ruling Alianza Pais of outgoing President Rafael Correa, Lenin Moreno has won the Ecuadorian presidential election Sunday.
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News Limited鈥檚 Geelong Advertiser launched a personal attack on its front page on March 27 against local Geelong Greens secretary and activist Matt Hrkac. The front page read: 鈥淕reens red faced. Obscene rant: Party鈥檚 Geelong 鈥榖ranch secretary鈥 in shocking foul-mouth tirade after missing out on job鈥.
Many people suffering in Manus Island and Nauru detention centres are struggling to find hope that their situation will change. One such person is Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist who fled Iran and has become well known for his writings about life in the Manus Island detention centre.
I wandered down to the Roe 8 freeway construction site after the March 11 state election that swept the Colin Barnett Liberal government from power. I'd heard Labor Premier-elect Mark McGowan on the radio calling on Main Roads to wind down construction immediately.
It was deserted. The hundreds of police were gone. The place where 200 of us had been arrested as we slowed the progress of the bulldozers was eerily silent.
Readers may have noticed that Australia is in the midst of an energy war. On one side are right-wing commentators attacking renewable energy at every turn. On the other side are renewables advocates, quick to retaliate, sometimes without considering the whole story.
Between 40% and 50% of graduate teachers leave teaching within the first five years. Surveys reveal that they feel burnt out, unsupported, frustrated and disillusioned. Research shows that long-serving teachers are retiring early 鈥 if they can afford to 鈥 and most are feeling utterly spent.
El Salvador's Congress approved a law on March 29 that prohibits all metal mining projects, in a bid to protect the Central American nation's environment and natural resources.
The new law, which enjoyed cross-party support, blocks all exploration, extraction and processing of metals, whether in open pits or underground. It also prohibits the use of toxic chemicals like cyanide and mercury.
The NSW Gladys Berejiklian government鈥檚 forced council amalgamation policy is in crisis, after the NSW Court of Appeal on March 27 blocked the merger of Ku-ring-gai and Hornsby Councils.
The court accepted Ku-ring-gai Council鈥檚 appeal against the merger, in part because the state government kept the KPMG consultants鈥 report on the amalgamations secret from the public and from the delegate appointed to investigate the merger.
The ongoing genocide of Rohingya people in western Myanmar (also known as Burma) remains almost ignored by world media. Displaced from their homes, attacked by the military, interned in refugee camps and driven across the border into neighbouring Bangladesh, the Rohingya have become known as one of the world's most persecuted people.
Last year, photographer Ali MC visited Rohingya refugee and internally displaced peoples鈥 camps in Myanmar and Bangladesh. His aim was to photograph Rohingya people, document their living conditions and better understand the events that forced them into this situation
Supporters of abortion rights gathered outside St Mary鈥檚 Cathedral on March 26 to declare their support for choice.
The action was organised to counter the annual anti-choice 鈥淒ay of the Unborn Child鈥 event, described as 鈥渁 peaceful march to protect preborn babies鈥. In reality, it is designed to perpetrate myths and shame anyone thinking of, or who has had, an abortion.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale has backed calls for a new 鈥減eople鈥檚 bank鈥 to challenge the power of the Big Four mega-banks. He told the National Press Club on March 15: 鈥淭he time has come for a people's bank, one that injects real competition into the banking sector.鈥
Senator Di Natale drew on the example of the state-owned KiwiBank in New Zealand, run by the NZ Post Office. A similar operation in Australia would boost competition, push down fees, help young buyers enter the property market and deter 鈥渦nscrupulous behaviour鈥, he said.
Just weeks after a report highlighted plummeting koala populations, the federal government has given approved for coal seam gas (CSG) company QGC to on Queensland's Western Downs.
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