Opinion polls in both the Fairfax and Murdoch dailies on May 18-19 show voter support for PM Kevin Rudd has fallen. Rudd, who scored a 74% approval rating in the Fairfax Nielsen poll on March 30, dropped 10 points in the May 18 poll, down to 64%.
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Close to 100 people attended a May 17 Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH)-organised International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) rally in Newtown to commemorate the day the World Health Organisation took homosexuality off its list of mental disorders.
When the United Nations describes the Sinhalese army聮s attacks on the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka as a 聯bloodbath on the beach聰 you know a massacre is going on.
SYDNEY 聴 A May 19 ceremony at Ibero-American Square marked the 114th anniversary of the death of Cuban national hero Jose Marti.
Chants of 鈥淗ardest working, lowest paid: Bligh and Wilson, be ashamed!鈥 rang out from 4000 teachers at the gates of state parliament on May 19.
Despite some new health spending on infrastructure and research, the recent budget failed to address the growing public health care crisis.
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has criticised the fast-tracking of approval for a 3km tunnel under the Ranger uranium mine operated by Energy Resources of Australia.
On May 14, the Senate upheld the parliamentary remuneration tribunal鈥檚 decision to raise electoral allowances for federal politicians by $90 a week ($4700 a year). The vote was 38 votes to 7.
Climate scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a disturbing new study on May 19. Without drastic action, the Earth鈥檚 surface temperature could rise by 5掳C or more by 2100, they said.
Plans are underway for the fifth national day of action for same-sex marriage rights. Rallies are already planned in seven cities across Australia on August 1.
SYDNEY 聴 Mohan Rajan, a young Tamil activist, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly he was concerned that two violent incidents between the Tamil and Sinhalese communities in Sydney on May 18 聯overshadowed the human catastrophe聰 in Sri Lanka.
Two protesters abseiled from the front of parliament house on May 13 in a dramatic protest against the federal government鈥檚 policies on climate change.
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