Federal parliament passed a renewable energy bill on August 20. The target is to source 20% of Australia鈥檚 energy from renewables by 2020. The reality is that it won鈥檛 do what Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says it will.
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August 21 was a nice day to be out on Sydney harbour with my best friend. But we were at Circular Quay not to go on a romantic ferry ride but to protest against the planned privatisation of Sydney ferries by the NSW Labor government.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi was found guilty on January 31, 2001, of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in Scotland that killed 270 civilians.
GOLD COAST 鈥 Hotels and tourist operators on the Gold Coast have been using the recession as an excuse to apply the thumbscrews to hospitality workers. The industry is cutting wages and hours, forcing redundancies and pressuring those who manage to keep their jobs to work even harder to cover for their lost workmates. Now it appears Gold Coast City Council intends to do the same.
The Sydney Stop the War Coalition (StWC) used the day of the sham presidential elections in Afghanistan to again call on the Rudd government to get the Australian troops out of the country. The war on Afghanistan was not a 鈥済ood war鈥, the peace group said on August 20.
More than 500 people attended the launch of the Victorian chapter of the Australian Tamil Congress (ATC) on August 15.
The following article is abridged from an August 13 statement by the Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM). The full article can be found at .
The military coup carried out by masked soldiers in the early hours of June 28 against the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was a bandit act with differing messages for different audiences.
The 鈥渢ransparent government鈥 that President Barack Obama guaranteed during his electoral campaign has become yet another broken promise. The August 14 Huffington Post revealed a memo containing details of 鈥渢he deal鈥 Obama cut with health care mega-corporations in secret White House meetings.
Recent events in Honduras 鈥 where a Washington-backed military coup deposed President Manuel Zelaya on June 28 鈥 conform to the historic pattern of United States involvement in Latin American affairs.
Having just returned from Cuba, I find some US-propagated lies about the country particularly galling. I want to lay some to rest.
Afghanistan held presidential elections on August 20 amid a major offensive by US and NATO troops and counter-attacks by a resurgent Taliban. The results are not expected until September.
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