Activists took to the streets in Sydney at the March in March raising a number of聽issues including Aboriginal rights, refugee rights, to stop WestConnex, to save Sydney College of the Arts, to stop Coal Seam Gas聽and to defend penalty rates.
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This month marks two years since the start of the Saudi-led, US-supported聽. Involving a blockade of Yemen and the聽聽of the nation鈥檚 economy, the war has made the prospect of famine very real.
A Sydney man has been awarded $3000 for being stopped by police for four minutes at Liverpool Station, after a court ruled this amounted to false imprisonment.
Sam Le was approached by two police officers in January last year and asked to produce his Opal card and pensioner concession card, along with photo identification to prove the cards belonged to him.
In a video captured on Le鈥檚 phone, he was told he was not under arrest but was 鈥渘ot leaving鈥 until the officers had verified his identity.
The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) was originally set up by former Prime Minister John Howard in 2005. Another former Prime Minister Tony Abbott tried but failed to reintroduce it in 2014.
It was the reason Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a double dissolution election last year. The result was a Senate willing to pass ABCC legislation, thanks to the likes of Pauline Hanson and Derryn Hinch who voted with the Coalition.
The Victorian government announced on March 14 a $20 million tender, to install up to 80MW of grid-scale energy storage by 2018.
It invited proposals from batteries, pumped hydro, compressed air, flywheel, and solar thermal technologies.
But its deadlines, of 30MW expected to be installed by next summer and 50MW by the following summer, are impossible for two of those technologies to meet.
Pumped hydro facilities take several years to build, because dams, tunnels and pipelines would need to be built.
Manus Island protests
A year after the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court ordered that the Manus Island detention centre be closed, people are still living in the same compounds and sleeping in the same beds.
In the latest protest, as tensions simmer inside the detention centre, guards hastily withdrew from Mike Compound on March 18 after a protest erupted in the mess area following Border Force renovations that made the serving area more like a prison.
Venezuela鈥檚 ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS), Carmen Velazquez, interrupted a media conference held by Secretary General Luis Almagro with Venezuelan opposition leaders聽on March 20, which she slammed as a violation of the organisation鈥檚 internal norms.聽
A new report released on March 22 found President Donald Trump has broken his campaign promise to 鈥渄rain the swamp鈥 at every turn. Instead, he has turned the government over to corporate interests and enriched his bottom line.
New laws to legalise abortions were passed by the Northern Territory parliament on March 21. The bill passed by 20 votes to four after a lengthy and emotional debate.
The new laws mean the NT joins the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania in decriminalising abortion and stands in stark contrast to NSW and Queensland, which have Australia鈥檚 most restrictive abortion legislation.
When Julian Assange appeared in front of the Melbourne Town Hall pipe organ, the pipes shimmered, nearly whistled; leaky, ready to burst. Pastel white as he was beamed in live from London, Assange looked surprisingly well.
The pipe setting became more allegoric as he spoke of his latest alarming leak: The Pied Piper theory. The reference is not to Assange leading his followers into the unknown. But more on that madcap theory later.
Lecture and Q&A specialist company ThinkInc, toured Assange across Australia under the banner of 鈥淣o more secrets: No more lies鈥.
The University of Melbourne has renamed the prominent Richard Berry building for maths and statistics after a long .
Until his retirement in the 1940s, Berry was Australia鈥檚 leading voice in the pseudoscience of eugenics, which aimed to produce a superior human race by having suitable people breed, while at the same time sterilising those with 鈥渞otten heredity鈥.
鈥淭he world鈥檚 poorest countries, those with the lowest greenhouse gas emissions, will be the most severely affected by extreme temperatures brought on by global warming.鈥
Statements such as that appear in virtually every report and article on climate change. A feature of聽most such statements is use of the future tense: the poorest countries聽will聽be worse-hit than the rich ones.
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