As reported in 麻豆传媒 Weekly previously, the ALP New South Wales government has tabled new anti-graffiti laws. The proposed law will punish children caught with spray-paint cans without a 鈥渓egitimate reason鈥 with up to six months jail.
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Portland-based Keppel Prince Engineering, which makes about 40% of Australia鈥檚 wind turbine towers, has indicated it may need to lay off 150 staff because of lack of work.
In 2004, the Coalition government, with Labor support, banned marriage for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. This year, the Greens introduced the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill to federal parliament, to try to overturn the ban.
Were it not so outrageous, it could almost be funny. A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy was brought before a Western Australian court on a charge of receiving stolen goods. He had accepted a chocolate Freddo Frog worth 70 cents from a friend who had allegedly stolen it.
For environmentalists, Indigenous rights activists, feminists, socialists and all progressive people, Latin America is a source of hope and inspiration today. The people of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and El Salvador, among others, are showing that radical social change is possible and a better, more just society can be imagined and built.
On October 6, BHP Billiton and the South Australian Department for Correctional Services announced a new agreement allowing the company to employ prisoners from Port Augusta at Olympic Dam 鈥 the world鈥檚 biggest uranium mine.
Could the government鈥檚 proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) get any worse? The unfortunate answer is yes. It can, it has already and it鈥檚 likely to get worse still before parliament ends for the year.
The Socialist Alliance鈥檚 seventh National Conference will take place over January 2-5.
About 70% of TAFE teachers walked off the job on November 19 as part of a branch-organised wildcat strike.
On November 18, 200 people rallied outside the Western Australian parliament to protest against the introduction of genetically modified crops. The state government will decide next year whether to permanently lift the ban on GM crops.
Women and men have been picketing events at which Queensland Premier Anna Bligh speaks. They are protesting against Bligh鈥檚 refusal to have her attorney-general drop criminal charges against a Cairns couple for allegedly procuring an abortion.
Freddo Frog charge
A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy in living in Northam in regional Western Australia was charged with stealing a Freddo Frog chocolate. He was told he would face court over this matter. The worse part of this story is that he did
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