The six-year campaign against Gunns鈥 proposed Tamar Valley pulp mill in northern Tasmania is entering a critical stage.
Federal environment minister Tony Burke approved the three outstanding modules of the mill鈥檚 environmental management plan on March 10.
However, pulp mill opponents remain staunchly against the project in whatever form and have vowed to organise ongoing protests and blockades to stop it going ahead.
A mass protest has been called on the site for March 20.
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About 10,000 people marched on the Philippines Congress on March 8 to mark International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD) and demand passage of the Reproductive Health Bill before Congress.
The bill would allow greater access to modern contraceptives and sex education.
The bill proposes more maternal health services, raising the number of midwives to one for every 150 deliveries. Contraceptives would also be funded for poor women and would be included in the standard supplies of medicine in hospitals.
Modern family planning methods would be provided in all accredited health facilities.
Squatters have taken over a mansion in London owned by the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, AFP said on March 8.
The eight-bedroom house in Hampstead, north London, is owned by Seif al-Islam Gaddafi.
The article said: 鈥淢embers of a campaign group called 鈥楾opple the Tyrants鈥 said they had occupied the mansion and wanted it transferred to the people of Libya.鈥
鈥淭he plush home, in a secluded, leafy close surrounded by some of Britain鈥檚 most expensive residential streets, boasts an indoor swimming pool, a sauna room and a cinema room.鈥
A cable from the US embassy in Buenos Aires, released by WikiLeaks, reveals pressure from the US government to halt a serious criminal investigation in Argentina.
The US pressured an Argentine prosecutor to halt investigations into former Argentine president Carlos Menem and a number of other officials suspected of being involved in a cover-up over the bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires in 1994, Argentine daily Pagina/12 reported on February 27.
For every dollar the Australian government spends on cutting carbon pollution, it spends $11 encouraging it, new research from the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has revealed.
ACF said on March 1 that its analysis showed: 鈥淭he Australian government spends $11 billion more on subsidies that encourage greenhouse pollution than it does on programs to tackle climate change.鈥
Australia鈥檚 most famous racist and one-time MP Pauline Hanson won the attention of big business media at the March 10 ballot draw for the NSW Legislative Council elections.
However, more significant than Hanson, is the attempt by conservative forces to replicate the right-wing populist US Tea Party movement in Australia. This push is headed by right-wing politicians and media shock jocks, and aims to mobilise people on a populist and racist agenda.
Last August, a website called the TEA Party in Australia was launched. TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already, the website says.
Environment groups have criticised federal environment minister Tony Burke for ignoring a recommendation to make Tasmania鈥檚 Tarkine rainforest a protected heritage area.
The Tarkine National Coalition has accused Burke of suppressing a report by the Australian Heritage Council, which said the government should create a Tarkine National Heritage Area. The report has since been leaked.
Jewish Voices for Peace and Justice NSW released a 鈥渟tatement in support of the people of the Arab nations鈥 on March 11.
The statement said: 鈥淲e at Jewish Voices for Peace and Justice are deeply inspired by the people of the Arab nations, in their struggle for democracy and freedom as they rise to decide their own future, defying regimes that have for too long subjugated them.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed into law a bill that bans collective bargaining by most of the state鈥檚 public sector workers right on March 11. High school students in the capital, Madison, walked out of school in protest the same day 鈥 the second straight day of student strikes in the city.
About 6000 people rallied outside PM Julia Gillard鈥檚 Melbourne office on March 12 for an emergency action on climate change. The rally was organised by GetUp!
Publicity for the rally did not explicitly refer to the proposed Labor/Greens carbon price. But at the rally itself, the organisers campaigned for the carbon price plan as the most effective way to deal with climate change.
Many at the rally had concerns with the proposed carbon tax, but mobilised in spite of this to call for urgent climate action.
Daicy Olaya, a resident of Fairfield for 18 years, explained why she decided to stand as a candidate for Socialist Alliance in the March 26 NSW elections. 鈥淧oliticians from both major parties have failed miserably in representing the interests of migrants and women here in New South Wales,鈥 she said.
A dozen protesters gathered outside Darwin Magistrates Court on March 8 to call for an end to the detention of asylum seeker children.
The protest was held outside the trial of six teenage asylum seekers, who faced charges with various offences resulting from a scuffle in Darwin immigration detention centre in February.
Richard Davis from the Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network told ABC Darwin that the youths should not have been charged.
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