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BRISBANE — More than 30 people attended a November 8 Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly screening of The Power of Community — How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, at Sandgate Community Centre.
At some point in the not-too-distant future, we might just look back at 2008 as the year in which things really started to fall apart for the African National Congress (ANC).
According to a November 11 article in the British Guardian, the Maldives government is investigating the possibility of purchasing land in order to move its citizens to escape the disappearance of the Indian Ocean archipelago due to climate change.
MELBOURNE — The ALP have done a preference deal with the “joke” candidate for the Maribyrnong council elections. Former mayor and ALP incumbent Michael Clarke has preferenced Garth Bray, an independent.
“Socialism 2008 — Malaysia”, a conference hosted by the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) in Kajang, Selangor, over November 7-9, brought together more than 500 activists from around Malaysia, as well as from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Australia, Britain, Sweden and Taiwan.
Beats are a toilet or park where men gather to have consensual, casual sex.
The future of childcare services in Australia has been brought into question by the financial collapse of ABC Learning, the largest childcare provider in the country.
The global financial crisis is, again, showing up the savagery of the unfettered rule of the market. Governments are responding by increasing financial regulation, nationalising parts of the economy, and spending big on public infrastructure programs to pump-prime a stagnating capitalist economy. Not in NSW.
Â鶹´«Ã½ WeeklyÂ’²õ Chris Williams interviewed Tim Dobson from the Wollongong Public Transport Coalition (WPTC).
Last week, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly published an article arguing that population reduction schemes provide no answers to the threat of climate change.
All Brandon Marshall wanted was the opportunity to be part of the moment.
Gone are the days when the local council dropped you a note in the mailbox, advising of its twice-yearly, free hard-rubbish collection.