The NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages has refused to change a transsexual man鈥檚 documents unless he undergoes life-threatening surgery.
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A tidal wave of wealth
"Australia's top executives have seen their collective wealth swell by almost three-quarters 鈥 or about $15 billion 鈥 over the past year, easily outstripping gains by ordinary investors.
"The total wealth of Australia's top 200 business chieftains ballooned to $35 billion in 2010, up from $20.3 billion in 2009, according to the BRW 2010 Executive Rich List ...
"The combined wealth of Australian executives was 72 per cent higher than last year ..."
鈥 March 24 Sydney Morning Herald.
Australian PM Kevin Rudd鈥檚 appointment of Tony Burke as population minister continues the Australian tradition of playing political football with immigration. His appointment came after Treasury estimates predicted that Australia鈥檚 population will grow from 22 million to 36 million by 2050.
搁别蝉颈蝉迟补苍肠别鈥檚 Zane Alcorn spoke to Matthew Wright, a climate and energy campaigner from Beyond Zero Emissions. Wright is speaking at the Resistance 2010: the World can鈥檛 Wait! national conference, which will be held in Wollongong from April 24-26.
The federal Labor government announced a moratorium on processing claims for asylum for people coming from Sri Lanka or Afghanistan on April 9.
< STRONG>Ordinary Courage: My Journey to Baghdad as a Human Shield
By Donna Mulhearn
Pier 9, 2010
254 pages, $32.95 (pb)
STRONG>Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
By Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold
Pocket Books, 2009
302 pages, $24.99 (pb)
鈥淗ow long must we stay like this, don鈥檛 they realise our hardship?鈥, a Tamil detainee in the Christmas Island detention centre asked when he called 麻豆传媒 Weekly on April 8.
Disgraced ex-rugby league player turned celebrity Matthew Johns made his return to TV on March 25, with the 鈥渇amily-friendly鈥 Matty Johns Show being hailed a 鈥渟uccess鈥 by reviewers.
Burma Campaign Australia said on March 30 that Burma political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi鈥檚 political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), will not register in the forthcoming national election in Burma.
Ferne Edwards, a PhD student at the Australian National University who researches sustainable food movements, cities and climate change, was so inspired by the social changes in Venezuela when she visited there as part of a food sovereignty tour in 2009 that she decided to organise an opportunity for other Australians to visit and see it for themselves.
A recent investigation has found that nearly 55% of stories in the mainstream media are driven by public relations, or corporate spin. Spinning the Media was a joint investigation by Crikey.com and the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, headed by Wendy Bacon, based at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana is the international relations officer for Indonesia鈥檚 Working People鈥檚 Association (PRP).
In 2003, Mahendra was imprisoned for two years for 鈥渋nsulting the government鈥 of then-president Megawati Sukarnoputri. In recent months, the PRP has initiated a number of joint statements from left groups across the Asia-Pacific region on common struggles.
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