Australia鈥檚 largest milk processor Murray Goulburn has announced it will close manufacturing plants in three small rural towns: Kiewa and Rochester in northern Victoria and Edith Creek in Tasmania.
Murray Goulburn expects 360 people will lose their jobs. The closures are in areas where there are no other industries.
This will have a huge impact on these three local communities. The 700 residents of Kiewa-Tangambalanga will lose 135 jobs from Murray Goulburn's factory closure.
The huge Labour losses in the May 4 local council elections are just what the Labour Right was hoping for.
The left has to be crystal clear about what is happening here. There are many subsidiary factors, but the root of the Conservative Party's substantial gains 鈥 500 seats won against about 400 losses for Labour 鈥 is the xenophobic nationalism of Brexit which the Tories have used ruthlessly.
Today, it is Timor-Leste that is giving the tutorial in politics. After years of trickery and bullying by Canberra, the people of Timor-Leste have demanded and won the right to negotiate before the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) a legal maritime boundary and a proper share of the oil and gas.
Australia owes Timor Leste a huge debt 鈥 some would say, billions of dollars in reparations. Australia should hand over, unconditionally, all royalties collected since Evans toasted Suharto鈥檚 dictatorship while flying over the graves of its victims.
Media coverage encouraged and inflamed Britain鈥檚 referendum campaign on whether to leave the European Union last year to make it the 鈥渕ost divisive, hostile, negative and fear-provoking鈥 in British history, according to a new report.
King鈥檚 College London鈥檚 Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power (CMCP) analysed more than 15,000 articles published online by 20 national news outlets. It found the media coverage 鈥渁crimonious and divisive鈥 and dominated by 鈥渙verwhelmingly negative鈥 reports about the consequences of migration to Britain.
FIFA, the governing body of world football (soccer),聽has capitulated once more to聽intense pressure聽from the Israeli government. It has removed from the agenda of its upcoming congress the issue of teams from Israel鈥檚 illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land playing in Israel鈥檚 national league.
Fans of Glasgow鈥檚 Celtic football club showed their support for more than 1500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, with large banners and Palestinian flags at Celtic鈥檚 May 6 football (soccer) match against fellow Scottish side St Johnstone FC.
Members of Celtic鈥檚 鈥渦ltras鈥 fan group, the聽, along with聽, lifted a huge Palestinian flag, as well as large banners with the slogans 鈥淔reedom and Dignity鈥 and 鈥淗ungering for Justice鈥.
Women have again been let down by the majority of MPs in the NSW Legislative Council who voted down a Greens鈥 bill to decriminalise abortion on May 11.
The vote was 25 against and 14 in favour of Dr Mehreen Faruqi鈥檚 private members鈥 bill and it was greeted with cries of "shame" from the packed public gallery.
The 聽Anti-Poverty Network South Australia released the statement below on its on May 10 in response to the federal budget, which included 聽a series of attacks on welfare recipients.
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Calls are mounting on聽聽to require Israel鈥檚 national league to exclude teams from West Bank settlements or face suspension from the governing body of world football (soccer).
But there are warning signs FIFA may be succumbing to intense pressure to once again give Israel a pass to continue violating Palestinian rights with impunity.
Italian soccer authorities were branded as 鈥済utless鈥 amid calls for strikes from the league鈥檚 Black players after a Ghanaian player was banned for protesting racist crowd abuse.
During a May 1 match between Cagliari and Pescara in Italy鈥檚 top league, the Serie A, Pescara鈥檚 Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari was given a yellow card for dissent after he protested opposition fans鈥 racist taunting.
Muntari was seen complaining to the referee to stop the game after coping with abuse throughout the game. He shouted at the fans that 鈥渢his is my colour鈥.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez and other ministers from the region kicked off a聽聽of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), on May 2 in San Salvador to discuss recent violence in the South American country.