On March 21, it will be 10 years since 154 countries signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) following the 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil.
The only implementing treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, is in limbo. The US and
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Doug Lorimer
US Army Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia became the first US soldier to turn himself in after refusing to return to Iraq when he turned himself in to military authorities in Boston on March 15, saying he would seek conscientious objector
SYDNEY — At least 650 residents met at Ashfield Town Hall on March 15, to debate the government's proposed options to extend the M4.
The meeting condemned the poor and inadequate information provided by the Road Traffic Authority on key issues
Nick Fredman, Bangkok
In the latest of a series of actions against the privatisation of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, 6000 public sector workers and supporters rallied on March 13. After widening opposition to the privatisation,
"Today is a day of celebration and vindication for the millions of people across the world who protested against the invasion of Iraq. We didn't stop it, but we came very close when you look at what has happened to Blair in Britain. Consider the
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
More than 10,000 forest campaigners took to the streets of Hobart on March 13 in a decisive display of support for preserving old-growth forests. The timber industry countered with a large mobilisation on March 16 — the
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Bougainville liberators tour Australia
SYDNEY — Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom (BWPF) representative Josephine Takunani Sirivi, and former Bougainville Revolutionary Army commander Sam Kauona addressed a gathering and film
Sarah Stephen
RA, an Algerian asylum seeker, fled to Australia in 2001 in fear of his life. He had no documentation to prove his claim for asylum, and the Refugee Review Tribunal rejected his initial appeal.
By November last year, after three
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Unions defend Age jobs
MELBOURNE — The sacking of 86 printers and maintenance workers at the Age's Spencer Street plant has been stalled by a combination of industrial pressure and legal defence.
In an industrial relations commission
Lee Yu-kyung& Iggy Kim
A move by conservative opposition parties in the Kukhoe, South Korea's single-chamber parliament, to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun are galvanising a pro-democracy backlash, leading to mass protests against the attempted
Sarah Stephen
After almost three years of imprisonment, those asylum seekers remaining on the Pacific island of Nauru are trapped in a living hell. They have seen some of their fellow prisoners granted refugee status and taken to New Zealand,
Feeling Bolshie
"A [Russian] leader writer has expressed concern that the Soviet Union still exists, that nostalgia for it seems to be the dominant mode. Polls by reputable institutes confirm this: 57% of Russians want the USSR back (2001); 45%
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