Australian Marriage Equality released the statement below on August 16.
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Christian leaders join campaign for equality.
A national opinion poll has found a majority of Australian Christians believe same-sex couples should be allowed to marry and several mainstream Christian ministers have spoken out in favour of the reform.
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Living in north London, I often travel via the interchange in Tottenham. Walking between stations I found myself on Ferry Lane Bridge on the evening of August 14, the spot where Mark Duggan was shot by police on August 4.
A group of about 50 protesters chanted 鈥淣o coal seam gas! No fracking way!鈥 outside the Queensland Gas Conference at the Brisbane Convention Centre on August 17.
The rally, which coincided with 鈥淧eople's Day鈥 at the Ekka (the Brisbane Exhibition Show Day), was organised by the Stop CSG Brisbane Committee. It indicated the strong public opposition to the threat the expanding coal seam gas industry poses to land, water and the environment.
Putty valley residents organising against coal seam gas mining in their community, about 150 kilometres northwest of Sydney, released the statement below on August 15. It first appeared on the .
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About 50 people were at a protest against coal seam gas on a private property on Putty Road on Sunday August 14.
The ABC chopper landed in the paddock to the cheers of the placard-waving crowd.
Video footage and photos of the unfurling of the giant "Enough Is Enough: Stop Coal & Gas Expansion" banner by two activists who abseiled down the front of the hotel where mining company executives were meeting to plan the wholesale exploitation of NSW even at the cost of communities and the environment.
The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee released the statement below on August 16.
The released the statement below on August 15.
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The Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) has welcomed the release last week of , a report by Amnesty International.
The report recommends the provision of government support and services for all Aboriginal Homelands and documents gross neglect and under-funding.
Fourteen Australian-based Palestine solidarity groups released the statement below on August 13.
As I walked out of the tercera comiseria (police station based in the centre of Santiago) on August 4, it hit me what had transpired on this incredible day.
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