Despite the fanfare about Asia鈥檚 鈥渕iracle鈥 economies, the problem of 鈥渕issing women and girls鈥 is actually growing, the United Nations Development Program-sponsored 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report said.
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Tasmanian premier and education minister David Bartlett鈥檚 flagship education reforms have become a thorn in his side in the run up to the March 20 state election, with Australian Education Union (AEU) members campaigning for a vote against Labor.
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.
Witness Roy Bramwell told the re-opened inquest into Aboriginal man Mulrunji Doomadgee鈥檚 death on March 8 that police threatened to 鈥渃ome after him鈥, as they crushed his original damning witness statement and threw it in the bin.
Western Australia needs a broad and inclusive mass movement to stop the Barnett government鈥檚 push to privatise public services and smash public sector workers鈥 conditions.
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