School students walked out of school around Australia and the world as part of the School Strike 4 Climate on March 15. Organisers estimated 150,000 students, parents, unionists and community members joined the strike in more than 60 locations around Australia.
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The which screened on July 24, 2017, showed that far from saving the river system, the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan has created a financial windfall for a select few.
As Yemen faces the world鈥檚 worst humanitarian crisis, a has documented the role that the United States and Europe have played in the deaths of hundreds of civilians in the Saudi- and UAE-led war on Yemen.
According to the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), an additional 650 Indonesian commandos were deployed along with an extra 2000 troops on March 12 to the Central Highlands of West Papua to fight the West Papua National Liberation Army.
The Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) contested the Semenyih by-election in the state seat of Selangor on March 2. Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Zakaria Hanafi defeated Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate Muhammad Aiman Zainali. 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Alex Salmon spoke to PSM鈥檚 campaign media coordinator Nalini Elumalai about the campaign and result.
An electricity blackout has affected most of Venezuela for several days after an alleged cyber attack crashed the country鈥檚 main electricity generator, the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant in Bolivar State, commonly known as the Guri Dam.
On International Women鈥檚 Day, March 8, 57 countries signed on to a United Nations鈥 statement calling for universal sexual and reproductive healthcare, including access to safe abortions, and comprehensive sexuality education.
Australia was not one of the signatories.
One month after declaring himself the 鈥渓egitimate president of Venezuela鈥, Juan Guaid贸 attempted to provoke a crisis on February 23 by forcing United States' humanitarian aid across the Venezuela-Colombia border. Here Elisa Trunzo asked Jose Curiel for his account of what happened at the border that day.
In an interview with Sky News on March 8, finance minister , 鈥淭he whole reason why it is important to have flexibility in the labour market 鈥 is 鈥 to ensure that wages can adjust in the context of economic conditions, is to avoid massive spikes in unemployment 鈥 That is a deliberate design feature of our economic architecture.鈥
The split in the grassroots women鈥檚 liberation movement was on display when two rallies to mark International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD) were held on March 9. Each attracted around 100 people.
Mozhgan Moaref, a co-founder of the Refugees and Asylum Seekers Information Centre in Jakarta, spoke by video link to a Refugee Action Collective forum on refugees in Indonesia.
Residents gathered in leafy Buruwan Park in Annandale on March 4 to protest the park鈥檚 destruction by NSW Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) as part of the controversial $17 billion WestConnex tollway network.
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