The Queensland Land Court delivered its judgement on Hancock Galilee鈥檚 proposed Kevin鈥檚 Corner coalmine on July 4. Hancock Galilee is a wholly owned subsidiary of the GVK Group, which also owns the adjacent Alpha mine.
Land court member Wayne Cochrane determined: 鈥淭here is no basis upon which I should recommend refusal of the grant of the mining lease, notwithstanding that it will convert otherwise useful grazing land into a coalmine.鈥
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in the Turkish city of Istanbul after a 280-mile Justice March against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The demonstration was in response to the widespread jailings and dismissals authorised by the Turkish government after last year鈥檚 failed coup attempt.
鈥淭he revelation that Sydney is set to become the 鈥榯oll road capital of the world鈥 shows the madness,鈥 said Pip Hinman, Socialist Alliance candidate for Stanmore ward in the September Inner West Council elections.
鈥淭he disastrous $17 billion WestConnex tollway is just the latest in a string of tollroads around the city, and should be halted immediately,鈥 she told 91自拍论坛 Weekly on July 15
Arab women have announced the foundation of 鈥淢artyr Amara Arab Women鈥檚 Battalion鈥 under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ANF News said on July 12.
Formed in 2015, the SDF is an alliance of progressive armed groups 鈥 the largest of which are the Kurdish-based People鈥檚 Defence Units (YPG) and Women鈥檚 Defence Units (YPJ), although including a growing number of other groups聽 鈥 that is subordinate to the grassroots structures of the Democratic Federation of North Syria.
In no breast did the prodigious financial corruption of world football鈥檚 administrative elite beat more vigorously than that of Chuck Blazer, the head of football in the North and Central American and Caribbean regional body.
Chuck was not called American soccer鈥檚 鈥淢r Big鈥 for nothing. His bottomless appetite for high-calorie nosh gave him a gargantuan girth, which was matched financially in size by his tax-sheltered bank accounts. These bulged with millions of dollars received through fraud, embezzlement, bribes, perks, gifts and inducements.
Not only could he afford to rent an entire floor of luxury apartments in the prestigious Trump Tower in Manhattan, but he preserved one of them solely for the use of his cats.
It was in the autumn of 2014, only months after Islamic State (ISIS) achieved huge territorial gains inside Syria and Iraq, committing genocidal and femicidal massacres, that a revolutionary silver lining arose from the little-known town of Kobane in Syria鈥檚 north.
Having overrun聽Mosul, Tel Afar and Sinjar in Iraq, as well as a vast expanse of territory inside Syria, ISIS prepared to launch an attack on the north of Syria, known by Kurds as Rojava.
What ISIS did not anticipate in Kobane was that it would encounter an enemy of a different kind 鈥 an organised, political community that was ready to defend itself courageously by all means necessary, and with a worldview that turns ISIS鈥檚 death ideology on its head.
My bias is real. When it comes to tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams, they have never been just athletes to me, but people. I have felt an imperative to defend them against detractors, know-nothings and dime-store bigots.
The reasons are obvious: they were once two Black teenagers from the public courts of Compton, treated with contempt 鈥 of both a race and class variety 鈥 by their sport. They not only survived but thrived.
National secretary of the Finance Sector Union Julia Angrisano gave this speech at the CFMEU鈥檚 National Day of Action to Stop the Attacks on Workers on June 20. It was an inspiring speech that raiased some key issues affecting bank workers today.
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Superannuation should provide a comfortable retirement for the several million workers who signed up to the 1983鈥95 鈥渟uperannuation revolution鈥 by the ACTU and Hawke-Keating Labor governments. But what should be in a super account to provide a comfortable retirement for this 鈥減ioneer鈥 generation?
Hundreds of Haiti's factory workers protested in Port-au-Prince on July 10 against the government鈥檚 proposed paltry rise in the minimum wage.
Currently paid US$4.75 a day, workers mainly from factories outsourced to foreign companies are demanding wages rise to US$12.75 dollars for eight hours of work.
However, the government has said the minimum wage should only rise by 55 cents.
Thousands of landless workers marched on July 12 through the streets of the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion, to demand the cancellation of debts contracted with the national bank.
The demonstrators have been blocking the centre of the capital since July 10, setting up their camp in front of the National Congress.