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β€œWhen it comes to climate change the Socialist Alliance assumes two things, one is that this is an emergency and the time in which to act is incredibly short”, said Mel Barnes, Socialist Alliance Candidate for Denison, on March 11.
Well, now I really feel safe. The Australian defence department has finally started to buy up vital necessities to protect this country. Oil paintings, comfy handmade chesterfield lounges, memberships to exclusive golf clubs… You name it; our defence department now has it. I guess you can’t underestimate the usefulness of a well-rested backside and a perfect golf swing during hand-to-hand combat.
Cuba's successful models of sustainable development β€” in areas of food, housing and health β€” are now being widely replicated throughout Latin America.
Tasmanian premier and education minister David Bartlett’s flagship education reforms have become a thorn in his side in the run up to the March 20 state election, with Australian Education Union (AEU) members campaigning for a vote against Labor.
The Cowie ward voters in Geelong have shifted their votes from Labor to conservative candidate Eddy Kontelj by a landslide in the by-election declared on March 8.

On March 8, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly website received a Top 10 Award from the web analytics company Hitwise.

A Bolivian social program that prevents the deaths of two mothers a day from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth is making headway despite administrative difficulties.
Politicians from the Coalition and Labor Party are proposing nearly identical housing polices for remote Aboriginal communities β€” and both ignore the experiences of Aboriginal people themselves.
On March 11, 40 people attended a public forum about fighting the Western Australian government’s proposed β€œstop and search” laws.
Despite the fanfare about Asia’s β€œmiracle” economies, the problem of β€œmissing women and girls” is actually growing, the United Nations Development Program-sponsored 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report said.
Redistributing wealth from big business to the community through welfare payments is not what one would expect from opposition leader Tony Abbott.
The February 19 Tiger Woods press conference was an exercise in self-abasement that will achieve the opposite of its intended effect. I haven’t seen anything this painfully scripted since The Phantom Menace.