An emergency protest was held on June 29 in response to the military coup that ousted Hondurasβ democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya the day before. The action targeted Labor MP Duncan Kerrβs office, and demanded the federal government condemn the coup.
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The NSW Supreme court of appeal ruled on July 1 that a planned expansion of the Lake Cowal gold mine in the central-west of NSW cannot go ahead for up to three months.
An Amnesty International report published on June 24, Unfinished Business: Police Accountability in Indonesia, said beatings, torture, extortion, and even murder are still habitually carried out by Indonesian police, although some improvements have been made to police culture in recent years.
The three crises facing capitalism β jobs, the environment and warβ were the subject of Victoria's Socialist Alliance conference on June 27.
ABC TV has apologised after a viewer complained that the May 18 7.30 Report misrepresented the history of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
Los dioses rotosDirected and written by Ernesto DaranasWith Silvia Aguila, Carlos Ever Fonseca, Ania Bu, Hector Noas and Yoel InfantaSydney Latin Film Festival, July 24-26, Tom Mann Theatre, Surry HillsVisit
When Rupert Murdochβs Australian published a racist and malicious attack (see page 8) on ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly and particularly its Arabic-language supplement, the Flame, I rang the Flame
Three years ago, a number of news outlets reported on a troubling first-ever occurrence. The worldβs obese people outnumbered the worldβs starving.
Family First, the small party based on the fundamentalist Assemblies of God church is carving out a niche for itself as an environmental vandal, at the federal and at state levels.
June 30 was declared βNational Sovereignty Dayβ by the Iraqi government to celebrate the withdrawal of US occupying troops from Iraqi urban areas into military bases.
When I returned from covering the Iranian elections recently, I was surprised to find my email box filled with progressive writers bending themselves into knots about the current crisis in Iran.
A draft agency agreement proposed by Australian Taxation Office (ATO) management has been endorsed by a staff vote. An announcement made on June 30 said 56% of votes were cast in support of the agreement.
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