There are still about 12.3 million people worldwide who work in some form of bonded or forced labour, according to a May 12 International Labour Organisation (ILO) report.
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Climate scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a disturbing new study on May 19. Without drastic action, the Earthβs surface temperature could rise by 5Β°C or more by 2100, they said.
Despite some new health spending on infrastructure and research, the recent budget failed to address the growing public health care crisis.
After rugby league commentator and former player Matthew Johns gave an insincere and misdirected apology on The Footy Show on May 7 β preempting the ABC Four Corners program that named Johns as part of an alleged sexual assault in 2002 β Paul βFattyβ Vautin slapped him on the back and declared: βWell said, now letβs get on with the show.β
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has criticised the fast-tracking of approval for a 3km tunnel under the Ranger uranium mine operated by Energy Resources of Australia.
The victory for Greens candidate Adele Carles in the May 16 by-election for the WA state seat of Fremantle is a breakthrough for the progressive movement and a testament to the Greensβ consistent efforts to raise a left alternative to Labor.
Plans are underway for the fifth national day of action for same-sex marriage rights. Rallies are already planned in seven cities across Australia on August 1.
Last weekβs university staff strikes across Victoria were in response to decades of attacks on higher education.
SYDNEY Β Mohan Rajan, a young Tamil activist, told ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly he was concerned that two violent incidents between the Tamil and Sinhalese communities in Sydney on May 18 Βovershadowed the human catastropheΒ in Sri Lanka.
Opinion polls in both the Fairfax and Murdoch dailies on May 18-19 show voter support for PM Kevin Rudd has fallen. Rudd, who scored a 74% approval rating in the Fairfax Nielsen poll on March 30, dropped 10 points in the May 18 poll, down to 64%.
βI believe that we must reject torture without equivocation because it does not make us safe, it results in unreliable intelligence, it puts our troops at risk, and it contradicts core American valuesβ, US President Barack Obama said while campaigning for the White House in March last year.
Schools and clinics in many Aboriginal homelands and outstations are likely to close under proposed changes announced by the Northern Territory government on May 20.
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