The Canterbury Bankstown Peace Group (CBPG) is organising a speak-out at Paul Keating Park, Bankstown, on October 18 to demand respect for human rights.
Mamdouh Habib, a member of CBPG, is still fighting for the Rudd government to investigate the
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Peru聮s entire cabinet tendered their resignations to President Alan Garcia on October 9 in the wake of a corruption scandal involving kickbacks in return for oil contracts.
Many people are understandably frustrated when they try to make sense of the world financial crisis based on what they read in mainstream newspapers.
A Students Against the Pulp Mill organiser, Gabby Forward, was a finalist in the "Junior Hero" category of news.com.au's Green Awards. Announcing the winner on September 23, presenter Axle Whitehead described it as "the hardest category to
Looking back on the political movements of the 聮60s and 聮70s is now a fairly well trodden path in the form of fiction, history and memoirs alike.
The seventh anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan was marked by a protest calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops, organised by the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) on October 7. More than 100 people participated.
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Britain鈥檚 most senior military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, told the British media about the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan that 鈥淲e are not going to win this war鈥.
The next move, presumably, will be to nationalise the country鈥檚 gambling debts.
The Queensland Greens now have their first MP in the state parliament, after Ronan Lee, ALP member for Indooroopilly, announced on October 5 that he was defecting to the Greens.
Lee won his seat from the Liberal Party in the Labor landslide of
Trade-offs agreed to by the NSW Public Service Association (PSA) are now coming to light, weeks after the union signed off on a 12% pay rise 聴 4% a year for three years 聴 on September 17.
There has been intense media speculation on the fate of New South Wales infrastructure plans following the 鈥渄iscovery鈥 of a supposed $20 billion dollar 鈥渂lack hole鈥 in the NSW budget, announced by departing treasurer Michael Costa on September 5.
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