The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is spreading its net further throughout the building industry in an attempt to intimidate unions from standing up for the interests of their members.
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Even from my bed on the opposite side of the room it was possible to see the gruesome surgical-steel staples bisecting Miguel鈥檚 head.
According to an April 3 Reuters report, an independent environmental expert told a court in Ecuador that US oil giant Chevron should pay US$7 billion to $16 billion in compensation for environmental damage in the country. The lawsuit, which peasants
We are taking a break from production to attend the 麻豆传媒 Weekly Climate Change 鈥 Social Change conference (see ad on page 5). The next issue of GLW will be dated April 23.
A legal challenge by environmental group Blue Wedges to the federal government鈥檚 approval of the dredging of Port Phillip Bay was defeated in the Federal Court on March 28. Blue Wedges鈥 case was based on the slipshod manner in which environment minister Peter Garrett approved the project on February 6, a week after the giant dredging ship the Queen of the Netherlands arrived in Melbourne on January 29. The ship was commissioned by the Victorian government to dredge a new shipping channel in the bay.
As the full severity of the mortgage crisis emerged over the past year, there were still defenders of the free-market system ready to counter every criticism of sub-prime mortgage peddlers and profit-hungry banks by pinning the blame on the real culprits.
March 31 Reuters article reported that Ecuador has sued Colombia in international court over drug crop fumigation along its frontier. "Ecuador asks the court to declare Colombia's air fumigation a violation of Ecuador's sovereignty", foreign minister
On April 1, 50 Wollongong residents rallied outside the NSW parliament in Macquarie Street, Sydney, to demand an end to corruption in the Labor-dominated Wollongong City Council (WCC). The rally, organised by the resident action group Wollongong Against Corruption (WAC), was addressed by, among others, Greens MP Sylvia Hale and NSW Liberal Party leader Barry O鈥橣arrell.
In 1910, German revolutionary socialist Clara Zetkin put a proposal to the International Socialist Women鈥檚 Conference that the date March 8 become a day dedicated to fighting for women鈥檚 rights.
Since Kosova declared independence on February 17, it has been recognised by only 33 countries, while most are 鈥渨aiting and watching鈥.
US plans for a "Star Wars" missile base in Poland have been met with wide spread opposition and protests, including a mass protest taking place in Warsaw on March 15. Demonstrators marched to parliament and then the US embassy calling for the Polish
On March 20, Victorian Supreme Court judge Bernard Bongiorno found that the conditions of incarceration and transportation of 12 Melbourne men charged with terrorism-related offences were so harsh that a fair trial could not be guaranteed.
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