Laws prohibiting the homeless from sleeping, eating, soliciting, or, let鈥檚 face it, being seen in public, are older than most modern institutions.
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"First Melbourne's East-West Tunnel was stopped by people's power, now the Roe 8 has been stopped in WA. Next to go, WestConnex?" Peter Boyle, an activist in the Newtown Residents Against WestConnex, said on March 13.
He was commenting on the decision by the new Labor premier of Western Australia, Mark McGovern, to order the suspension of all work on the Roe 8 section of the Perth Freight Link after the March 11 state election, which saw the Barnett Liberal government decisively thrown out of office.
At 11.22am on March 10, Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Lee Jeingmi announced the court had unanimously decided to dismiss President Park Geun-hye. With that, after a 92-day trial, Park鈥檚 presidency was over.
Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale
Allen Lane, 2016, 354 pages
The German 鈥渟ealed train鈥 that gave Vladimir I Lenin safe passage from exile in Switzerland through wartime Germany to Russia in April 1917, in the aftermath of the overthrow of Russia鈥檚 monarchy that had exiled the Russian revolutionary leader, was historically pivotal.
Mining companies have benefitted over the past few years from rising global demand and prices, but workers have seen little to no benefit from the boom.
Now mine workers are flexing their muscle to demand their share of the spoils.
By now you must have heard. The ACTU has been taken over by a terrorist spouting, in , 鈥渁narchist Marxist clap trap鈥 about destroying the rule of law, and presumably replacing it with a reign of terror in which CFMEU thugs will drag innocent bosses and Liberal politicians to the guillotine.
Can the political debate about Australia's 鈥渆nergy crisis鈥 get any more weird?
Friends of Victoria University and National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) organised a protest outside the university鈥檚 Flinders Street campus during a Victoria University (VU) council meeting on March 14.
The protest was in response to plans by VU鈥檚 management to sack 115 academic staff affecting undergraduate courses in the creative industries, marketing, communication, and professional and creative writing. Six post-graduate courses in communication and education will also be affected.
Much has been made of US President Donald Trump鈥檚 potential impact on Mexico, but one critical story has been largely ignored in the Western media.
Coverage of Mexico in the Trump era has been dominated by speculation over the fate of the stumbling Mexican peso, the possibility of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) collapsing and, of course, the wall.
Meanwhile, a seismic shift is quietly taking place in Mexican politics: the right wing is the weakest it has been in generations, while the left is seeing a historic resurgence.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Labor might be willing to support the deportation of children who commit crimes.
Australia does not currently deport minors.聽
But the Joint Standing Committee on Migration is examining the screening process when people are given Australian visas and聽support services when they arrive in Australia.
They are also looking into聽whether their visa can be revoked if child migrants join gangs.
Shorten said there may be merit in changing the law.
A look at three important new books on the growing global environmental crisis and two that mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
An interim report from the Koala Expert Panel, established by the state government after a catastrophic koala population crash in south-east Queensland last year, has offered little hope for the state鈥檚 faunal emblem.
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