Cindy Shelley had worked for Thomastown-based tooling specialist Sutton Tools for more than 20 years when she was told that her job was gone.
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Comedian Rod Quantock launches his new show, Bugger the Polar Bears, This is Serious, in Melbourne on July 21. He spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Jay Fletcher about climate change, government inaction and the urgent need to create a global movement to save the planet.
About 5000 people turned out for the government-organised Harmony Day march through Melbourne on July 12.
July is the infamous marching season of the Orange Order in the six counties in Ireland鈥檚 north still claimed by Britain. The Orange Order, a Protestant sect, is strongly 鈥渓oyalist鈥 (supporting British rule over the six counties) as well as anti-Catholic.
PERTH: Thirty people rallied against a proposed new gas plant on July 10 outside the Perth Offices of Chevron and Shell. The protest was organised by the Wilderness Society. The two companies are considering joining a proposed joint venture development with fellow-fossil fuel companies Woodside, BHP Billiton and BP for a gas processing (LNG) industrial hub at James Price Point, 50 km north of Broome, in the Kimberly.
The United States state department has admitted it had prior knowledge of the military coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya on June 28.
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is well-known for its mission to expose the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez as a threat to free speech 鈥渁ll over the continent鈥.
Five Tamil doctors who had revealed death counts of Tamil civilians during the Sri Lankan Army鈥檚 brutal offensive on Tamil-held territory this year have faced a staged media conference after two months behind bars, Associated Press said on July 9.
The July 14 Age reported on unoccupied 鈥済host mansions鈥 in the well-heeled Melbourne suburb of Toorak. These million-dollar houses have been bought by wealthy landowners and left unoccupied 鈥 in some cases for decades.
Zero point eight of a degree of warming may not seem like that much. This is how much average temperatures have risen over the past two centuries as a result of carbon pollution.
June 28 was the anniversary of the two bookends of World War I, in which it is estimated more than 15 million people died. On that date in 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. Five years later, in 1919, 90 years ago this year, the Versailles Treaty was signed in Paris.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) sent the open letter below to Melbourne International Film Festival on July 5.
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