Due to lack of funds, 68% of community services are unable to help all people who seek assistance.
One out of every three times that people seek help from housing services they are turned away.
Legal services turn someone away for every six times
623
Eva Cheng
Japan's escalating of territorial disputes with China and Korea — and Tokyo's latest attempt to whitewash its wartime atrocities — provoked huge protests in China and South Korea in March.
The protests snowballed in China,
Stuart Munckton
According to an April 12 Venezuela Analysis <http://www.venezuelanalysis.com> article, supporters of the Movement for a Fifth Republic (MVR), Venezuela's governing party, voted in electoral primaries to establish the MVR's
Ian Jamieson& Nikki Ulasowski, Perth
A Unions WA executive meeting on April 12 decided to call a cross-union delegates' meeting — likely to be held in May — to form a campaign committee against the federal Coalition government's planned
On April 7, US President George Bush announced that he was nominating Zalmay Khalilzad to replace John Negroponte as the US ambassador to Iraq. Who is Zalmay Khalilzad?
An Afghan-American, Khalilzad began working in the US State Department during
Alex Rayfield, Melbourne
Three activists — Jason MacLeod, Josie Lee and Adam Breasley — are currently before the courts after being arrested for non-violent direct action at the Australian Defence Industries (ADI) munitions plant in Benalla,
Dale Mills
On April 6, the High Court handed down a decision in the case of Nuha Jamil Koehler v Cerebos (Australia) Limited which represents a setback for workers' health and safety rights.
Koehler, 50, claimed she was unable to cope with the
Seeing Red, the "forum of social, political and cultural dissent" initiated by the Socialist Alliance, has launched its web site (visit <http://www.seeing-red.org>). The arrival of the site comes with the third issue of the magazine, which
On April 10, 200 people, many from the Labour Party Pakistan, gathered at a few hours notice to discuss a campaign to support the family of Yasmeen Kanwal, who was murdered on April 4. The meeting followed a protest on April 7 in the centre of
Roberto Jorquera, an activist from the Venezuelan Solidarity Network in Australia, is in Caracas to help prepare for the solidarity brigade the network is organising from July 25-August 15, and to report on the unfolding revolution there. Regular
James Crafti, Canberra
"Over the years our relations have experienced many twists and turns, highs and lows ... Prime Minister Howard and I are heralding a new era of Indonesia-Australia bilateral relations ... the security, prosperity and
April 20
1966: A candlelight vigil is held in Sydney as the first conscripts leave for Vietnam.
1996: The Scottish Socialist Alliance is founded.
April 21
1856: Stonemasons in Melbourne are among the first workers in the world to win the
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