Liberal Premier Colin Barnett has proposed reforms to license and register some forms of sex work. And again people are referring to the bill as 鈥渓egalisation鈥 and 鈥減artial decriminalisation鈥 when it is not. It鈥檚 deeply concerning when big party politicians and mainstream journalists do not understand the proposed sex-work laws, and describe them as the opposite of what they are. Most Western Australians seem unaware that Barnett鈥檚 proposed bill is unnecessary, perpetuates stigma towards sex workers and will result in worse working conditions.
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University students across Australia will take to the streets on May 14 to protest the federal Labor government鈥檚 $2.8 billion cuts to higher education. The call by the National Union of Students (NUS) for a 鈥渟tudent strike against education cuts鈥 has not only received support from students, but also the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), which covers university staff. On a number of campuses, NTEU members have been resisting cuts that university administrations claim are necessary due to lack of government funding.
Up to 120,000 people packed and overflowed a large stadium in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur on May 8 to protest the fraudulent re-election of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government on May 5. The crowd defied a police threat to arrest all who attended the opposition-called rally. The police did not dare confront the huge crowd but, since the rally, the police have called in 28 rally speakers for questioning.
The mass, democratic uprising that broke out in Syria in 2011 against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad has increasingly turned into a prolonged civil war, with violence worsening and accusations of war crimes levelled against the regime and 麻豆传媒 of the armed opposition.
The situation has been worsened by the intervention of Western-allies in the region, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, selectively arming Islamic fundamentalist sectors of the anti-Assad forces.
鈥淟ast month鈥檚 announcements by NSW Premier Barry O鈥橣arrell and federal energy minister Tony Burke on coal seam gas mining far from guarantee the health of western Sydney鈥檚 water鈥, said local anti-CSG campaigner, Fred Fuentes. 鈥淪ince those announcements, 鈥楴o CSG Blacktown鈥 has been told that under licence 463, which is held by Macquarie Energy and covers Eastern Creek, right next to the Parramatta LGA, drilling is definitely to go ahead.鈥
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