During May-June this year, Queensland聮s Shoalwater Bay will host tens of thousands of Australian and US troops engaged live-fire, large-scale military exercises that will pose grave risks for the environment and people聮s health. The Shoalwater Military Training Area (SWMTA) is located inside the Great Barrier Reef National Park.
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The situation remains tense in East Timor聮s capital, Dili, in the wake of the Australian Defence Force-led operation on March 4 to capture renegade East Timorese army officer Major Alfredo Reinado.
Every week since February 3, around 60 people have gathered outside the office of federal Liberal MP Kerry Bartlett to call for Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks to be brought home. The initiator of the vigils, Kevin Hardwick, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly that the vigils would continue until the Hicks issue is resolved.
International Women聮s Day (IWD) 聴 March 8 聴 was marked by marches protesting the recent acquittal of former assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards and two other former police officers on charges of rape.
The Blue Team appeared to regain some advantage after the leader of the (mislabeled) Red Team was forced to admit he聮d made an 聯error of judgement聰 in meeting up three times last year with convicted fraud and former WA premier Brian Burke (now a professional lobbyist).
A tiny group dominates Australian politics and Labor leader Kevin Rudd recently met them. He knows very well that the key to Labor聮s electoral success later this year is an accommodation with the Australian oligarchy.
PM John Howard and US President George Bush are in trouble over their 聯war on terror聰. Two things help illustrate why this is the case, and how we can hasten them both into the dustbin of history.
One of Resistance聮s main campaigns is to strengthen the movement across Australia to end the occupation of Iraq. As well as building the biggest possible protests on March 17-18, the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we are helping to organise contingents from around the country to join the mass convergence in Sydney when US President George Bush comes to the APEC meeting in September.
Becoming socially aware in Townsville, a city of One Nation voters, was not ideal. It was politically isolating and hard to find information that shed any light on the pressing questions on my mind: why is the world so screwed up and how is this sustainable?
The reason for the existence of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) can be summed up in just two words: corporate greed.
In an out-of-court settlement, which became public on March 4, Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks鈥 government agreed to pay compensation to 47 protesters injured at the 鈥淪11" blockade of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne in September 2000. The settlement awards $700,000 in compensation, although $600,000 will go to legal fees.
On March 5, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers鈥 Unions (ICEM), the global union federation for oil workers, issued a call for 鈥渟trong condemnation鈥 by supporters of workers鈥 rights of US-led military raids on union offices in Baghdad on February 23 and 25. During the raids, targeting the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW), a member of the union鈥檚 security staff was arrested and office equipment was destroyed. On February 19, the Iraq Syndicate of Journalists was raided and computers and membership records were confiscated.
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