On March 21, US President Barack Obama will depart on a short tour of the Asia-Pacific region. His main destinations will be Indonesia and Australia, but the trip will include a brief stopover in Guam.
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Two Afghan and nine Tamil asylum seekers faced Christmas Island magistrates court on March 11. They pleaded not guilt to all charges related to a so-called riot in the Christmas Island detention centre last November.
鈥淓arth Hour鈥 will be held around the world on March 27. The event is organised by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and involves participants switching off their lights for the hour as a symbolic declaration of support for environmental action.
Freedom to hate 鈥 injustice
Regarding Steve Gumerundji Hodder's article, "Freedom to hate is not free speech" (GLW828). I believe we do have the freedom to hate injustice, tyranny, cruelty and racism, and to say so.
I think, too, that the
鈥淲hen it comes to climate change the Socialist Alliance assumes two things, one is that this is an emergency and the time in which to act is incredibly short鈥, said Mel Barnes, Socialist Alliance Candidate for Denison, on March 11.
More than 1500 women marched in Lahore from Nasir Bagh to the Punjab Assembly, under the banner of the Women Workers鈥 Help Line (WWHL) to celebrate International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD) on March 8.
Politicians from the Coalition and Labor Party are proposing nearly identical housing polices for remote Aboriginal communities 鈥 and both ignore the experiences of Aboriginal people themselves.
The Cowie ward voters in Geelong have shifted their votes from Labor to conservative candidate Eddy Kontelj by a landslide in the by-election declared on March 8.
The Sandon Point community, on the New South Wales south coast, has been fighting for decades to protect the area from developers. Sandon Point is a declared Aboriginal site, significant for ecological and historical reasons and valued as public open space.
Redistributing wealth from big business to the community through welfare payments is not what one would expect from opposition leader Tony Abbott.
On March 11, 40 people attended a public forum about fighting the Western Australian government鈥檚 proposed 鈥渟top and search鈥 laws.
An article posted at RAWA.org on March 10 by Marc W. Herold said that on February 27, the US/NATO forces occupying Afghanistan 鈥渒illed three people, including two children, in Alasai district of Kapisa province鈥.
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