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.
NAISDA Dreaming 鈥 Follows a group of young Indigenous dance students as their classroom is moved from urban studios to the bush and red earth of a remote homeland in northeast Arnhem Land. ABC, Sunday, November 16, 1.30pm.
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Two-and-a-half million people marched through the streets of Rome on October 25 in opposition to the policies and corruption of the right-wing government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The Kyoto Protocol鈥檚 鈥淐lean Development Mechanism鈥 (CDM), which was supposed to reduce emissions, is subsidising the fossil-fuel industry.
While celebrations over Barack Obama聮s victory in the presidential elections dominated US streets, gay rights supporters rallied against the banning of same-sex marriage in California.
The front page of the San Francisco Chronicle the day after the historic November 4 presidential election provided this image: a full page color photo of Barack Obama with the quote, 鈥淐hange has come to America鈥.
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