On September 10 a British jury acquitted six Greenpeace protesters who were on trial for trying to shut down a coal-fired power station on the grounds that they were trying to stop global warming.
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On September 17, the Thai parliament elected a candidate from the People聮s Power Party (PPP), Somchai Wongsawat, to be the next prime minister.
People power came to Gunnedah in north-west NSW on September 15 as more than 300 farmers and their supporters rallied outside the Gunnedah Basin Coal Conference. They were protesting against a coalmining project in the agriculturally rich Liverpool Plains that was given state government approval in 2006.
Four retired and one active Venezuelan military officials have been arrested, a further 33 questioned and the US ambassador expelled in the wake of the September 10 revelation of a planned coup and assassination attempt against President Hugo Chavez.
Amid growing tensions between the United States and Latin America, nearly 1200 young people 鈥 representing thousands more 鈥 met in the Venezuelan city of Puerto Ordaz on September 11-13 to found the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV).
The Australian Services Union (ASU) Victorian secretary, Ingrid Stitt, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly that Labor聮s new Interim Transitional Employment Agreements are a 聯wolf in sheep聮s clothing聰. The ITEAs were introduced by the Rudd government to replace the notorious Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs <17> individual contracts).
Beauty myth
I am writing in response to Pam Rankin's questions (Write On #767) regarding the way women dress and treat their bodies. To find the answer to who "forces" Western women to wax, pluck, chemical peal and worse, we don't have to look
The below sign-on statement, 聯In Support of Cuba: Worldwide call to artists and intellectuals聰, has been issued by the Cuban government. To add your name, visit .
This article is based on a speech to a rally against Gunns聮 proposed pulp mill, in Launceston on August 23. It was delivered by Stef Gebbi and Gabby Forward on behalf of Students Against the Pulp Mill.
McKesson Asia-Pacific, a subsidiary of US multinational medical services operator McKesson Corporation, landed a $176 million government contract to provide an all-hours national health telephone triage system called Healthdirect Australia. It began taking calls in New South Wales in August.
The Macquarie Dictionary defines plutocracy as 鈥渢he rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy鈥. With the accession of Malcolm Turnbull, the richest person in parliament, to the leadership of the Liberal Party, this definition would seem to provide a pretty good description of Australian 鈥渄emocracy鈥 also.
Colombian trade union and human rights activist Liliany Obando was arrested and detained in a maximum security prison on August 8 by the anti-terrorism unit of the Colombian National Police.
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