Seven years after he launched a showing how Australia could re-power with 100% renewable energy by 2020, Malcolm Turnbull, now Prime Minister, has announced a 鈥淣ational Energy Guarantee鈥 (NEG) policy that will have no renewable energy target.
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The Spanish People鈥檚 Party (PP) government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has decided to implement direct rule in Catalonia.
In implementing article 155 of the Spanish constitution, which allows central government intervention in regional governments, Rajoy has the full support of the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers鈥 Party (PSOE) and the new-right party Citizens. The unprecedented intervention is the first since the present Spanish constitution was adopted in 1978.
It is approaching crunch time for the Adani mega-coalmine in Queensland鈥檚 Galilee Basin, with the movement against it growing by the day, including in areas that traditionally support mining.
Finally, the federal government has a policy for the electricity sector: the National Energy Guarantee. (NEG. Did it think this one through?)
It is, effectively, an emissions trading scheme applied to electricity. It is similar to other schemes 鈥 the Clean Energy Target (CET) and the Emissions Intensity Scheme (EIS) 鈥 supported by Labor.
The Austrian legislative elections, held on October 15, finished with one clear winner: 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, who leads the conservative Austrian People鈥檚 Party (OVP). His party emerged as the biggest political force in the country, winning 31.7% of the votes and 61 of the 183 seats in Austrian parliament鈥檚 lower house, the National Council.
Kurz is now set to become Austria鈥檚 new chancellor 鈥 the youngest in the country鈥檚 history 鈥 and thereby completing his meteoric rise to the top.
Chevron has become the second big oil company to abandon plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight off the South Australian coast, a year after BP cancelled its plans to drill.
Oil companies say the Bight has similar potential to the Gulf of Mexico, site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, which was the largest marine oil spill in history and killed 11 people.
Veronica Heredia, the lawyer representing missing activist Santiago Maldonado's聽family, has said they will wait for the autopsy results of the body found on October 17 in the Chubut River, in Argentina.
Sergio Maldonado, the brother of the missing activist, also questioned how the body was found upstream, in a previously checked area, where a corpse could easily have been previously found.
The walls of the National Gallery of Victoria ran red on October 14 as activist group the Artists鈥 Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers opposed to the detention of asylum seekers, continued its project to pressure the National Gallery of Victoria to immediately end its contract with Wilson Security.
Wilson Security provides security services to both the gallery and Australia鈥檚 offshore detention facilities on Manus Island and Nauru and is known to have committed human rights abuses against asylum seekers and refugees.
Born in 1872 to a wealthy land-owning family, Alexandra Kollontai was raised in both Russia and Finland, acquiring an early fluency in languages which served her well in her later revolutionary work. She began her political work in 1894, when she was a new mother, by teaching evening classes for workers in St Petersburg.
Through that activity she was drawn into public and clandestine work with the Political Red Cross, an organisation set up to help political prisoners. In 1895, she read August Bebel鈥檚 Woman and Socialism, which had a major influence on her ideas about the emancipation of women.
Those smirking denigrators of the 鈥渘anny-state鈥 who gripe about 鈥渙ccupational health and safety gone mad鈥 would do well to read Kate Moore鈥檚 The Radium Girls. It details a time when a nasty industrial poison, unregulated by business-friendly governments, destroyed countless US women鈥檚 lives.
One of the most important aspects of Venezuela鈥檚 pro-poor Bolivarian Revolution has been its promotion of women's empowerment through community organisation.
To get a sense of how this grassroots process of community organising is developing and the role women are playing in the process, we visited the Ataroa and Lomas de Leon communes as part of the Venezuela Analysis international solidarity delegation in late August.
The predominantly Tamil northern province of Sri Lanka was at a 鈥渃omplete standstill鈥 on October 13, according to Tamilnet. All public and private businesses were shut down.
The strike was called by 20 grassroots movements to demand the unconditional release of all Tamil political prisoners.
Protesters blocked the A9 highway, and blockaded the secretariat of the Colombo-appointed governor of the Northern Province.
The next day protesters with black flags confronted Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena who was visiting a school in Jaffna.
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