There can be no doubt that the great majority of the 55 million US citizens whose votes made Barack Obama president want change.
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Twenty people from farming families on the Darling Downs travelled several hours to occupy Premier Anna Bligh聮s office on October 31, demanding the state government introduce legislation to protect prime farmland from mining.
鈥淲e鈥檙e a listening government鈥, said Verity Firth, the NSW education minister and Labor MP for the now marginal seat of Balmain, when announcing the abandonment of the plan for a takeover by Sydney University of Callan Park in the heart of her electorate.
On November 7, rallies in support of Lex Wotton took place around the country as Wotton was sentenced in Townsville to six years聮 prison for 聯riot with destruction聰.
Despite no pay since their October 15 stand-down, 130 workers at the John Valves foundry in Ballarat remain resolute about getting their jobs back.
Given the Earth鈥檚 atmosphere and its oceans are a closely interlinked natural complex, steeply rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are having dramatic impacts on the seas as well.
Pat Dodson, a Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia, used his Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech on November 5 to slam the Northern Territory intervention. He described it as a 聯crude, racist and poorly considered policy聰.
The latest reports by climate scientists, which reveal that global warming is taking place at a faster pace then first thought, indicate that the Socialist Alliance climate change charter, produced for last year鈥檚 federal election, is now out of date.
Having heard about the October 25, 2.5-million-strong, protest against the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi while in Florence, I was disappointed that the timing of my visit to Rome was off by just a few days.
The Rudd government, elected to office promising to repeal the Howard government鈥檚 unpopular student unionism (VSU) legislation, is planning to introduce a voluntary $250 鈥渟tudent levy鈥 in early 2009.
In a double whammy for working parents, last week finance minister Lindsay Tanner indicated that paid maternity leave was in doubt as ABC Learning childcare centres went into voluntary administration.
Palm Island Aboriginal man Lex Wotton was sentenced to six years鈥 jail for 鈥渞iot with destruction鈥 on November 7 鈥 just four days after 22 police officers received 鈥渂ravery awards鈥 for their role in the 2004 Palm Island protests.
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