In December, Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza), was elected as lead candidate of the Party of the European Left for the May 25 European elections.
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Actress Ellen Page, best known for her work in the 2007 film Juno came out as gay in her speech at a Human Rights Campaign conference on February 14. The conference itself was aimed at LGBTIQ youth where, during an emotional speech, Page said she was 鈥渢ired of hiding鈥 and 鈥渓ying by omission鈥. 鈥淚'm here today because I am gay,鈥 Page said. 鈥淎nd because maybe I can make a difference.鈥
From its inception, 麻豆传媒 Weekly has reported on the fight against discrimination suffered by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community.
It鈥檚 impossible to ignore any longer just how cruel and irrational the government鈥檚 war on refugees has become after violent attacks in the Manus Island detention centre left one dead and scores injured.
Calls to boycott the Sydney Biennale unless it cuts ties with major sponsor Transfield 鈥 which holds government contracts to provide welfare services in immigration detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island 鈥 have been gaining momentum.
A group of high-profile artists involved in the Biennale have , calling on them to withdraw from the funding agreement with Transfield.
After the collapse of Ansett Airlines and National Textiles in 2001 鈥 both of which owed their employees millions of dollars in unpaid entitlements 鈥 the then-John Howard government was forced to introduce legislation establishing the General Employee Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme, which guaranteed basic entitlements for workers if a company went broke.
You know, unless asylum seekers somehow managed to sneak into this country and made it all the way to Geelong to pose as Alcoa executives to announce yet another plant closure at the cost of nearly a thousand more jobs, then I really think this nation has some bigger goddamn problems than boats carrying refugees asking for help.
The Tony Abbott government has done something no other government in the world has done before, asking UNESCO to take one of the nation鈥檚 unique natural areas off the World Heritage list.
A fire burning in a coal seam at the Hazelwood coalmine in Victoria's Latrobe Valley caused the local Air Quality Index to reach nearly five times the amount considered 鈥渧ery poor鈥 on February 19.
About 150 people rallied outside the home of Sheila Oakley in the Brisbane suburb of Logan on February 15.
The Northern Territory's environment minister Peter Chandler has called for a government inquiry into the use of 鈥渇racking鈥 in the oil and gas industry. Currently 90% of the NT is targeted for shale gas exploration.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott recently toured drought stricken areas of north-west New South Wales and southern Queensland, promising that his government was close to finalising subsidies to farmers affected by the drought.
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