The federal government reached an agreement with the Labor opposition to pass amendments to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) on May 8, effectively ensuring less water will flow to the environment in the southern basin.
The deal sidelined negotiations with cross-bench Senators and scuttled a move by the Greens to request a disallowance motion for the vote because of environmental concerns.
The leader of the mass protest movement that brought down Armenia鈥檚 right-wing government has been elected by parliament as the new prime minister. Hovhannes Gevorkian looks at how this happened 鈥 and what the near future might hold.
Just a week before Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) held their annual Council elections on April 26 and 27, the out-going co-presidents Mariam Mohammed and Kiriti Mortha called on Sydney University management to investigate the "governance structure" of SUPRA, alleging there was a "toxic" culture on the council.
A new round of United States sanctions against Venezuela, this time directed against three individuals and their businesses, was rebuffed on May 7 by Samuel Moncada, the Bolivarian Republic鈥檚 Vice Minister for Foreign Relations.
Campaigning is well underway for Venezuela鈥檚 May 20 national vote to elect the nation鈥檚 president and representatives to municipal councils and state legislatures. To get a sense of the campaign and situation in the South American country today, Federico Fuentes spoke to Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) Brisbane co-convenor Eulalia Reyes de Whitney, who has been back in her home country for the past several months.
United States President Donald Trump regularly professes deep concern for democracy and human rights in Latin America, but the US鈥檚 attitude to Honduras highlights the hypocrisy of US policy in practice.聽
The NSW Coalition government鈥檚 long anticipated Koala Strategy, which was released on May 6, has been condemned as inadequate and doomed to fail by conservation groups, which say it ignores the key threat of habitat loss.
How did Murray Goulburn, once Australia鈥檚 biggest milk processor and a successful dairy cooperative since 1950, end up being sold to its international competitor, Canadian dairy giant Saputo? In the second of this multi-part series, Elena Garcia provides some answers.
The council election result in Kensington and Chelsea, as part of England鈥檚 council elections on May 3, was a good indicator of how polarised the political situation is in Britain,聽writes Andy Stowe.
May Day this year, held on May 6 in Sydney, was the strongest, most powerful and largest May Day I have marched in for years.
I joined with dozens of union contingents comprising thousands of workers in Sydney, chanting 鈥淭he workers united will never be defeated鈥 and 鈥淲hat do we want? The right to strike.鈥
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr on April 4, 1968.
The murder of one of the great Black leaders of the time by white racists with the complicity of the US government, most likely the FBI, stunned all African Americans in the country.
With growing concern over the possibility of a trade war between China and the United States, Marty Hart-Landsberg takes a look at the issues at stake.