Twenty-five people rallied in Anzac Park on January 24 to call for the return to Australia of Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks, during a visit by federal attorney-general Philip Ruddock.
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The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) is launching a campaign to regulate safety in the power industry following two workers聮 deaths late last year in the Latrobe Valley.
Walter Chavez, an adviser to Bolivian president Evo Morales, has found himself in the centre of a well-orchestrated corporate media campaign aimed at delegitimising the Morales government internationally by linking it to 聯terrorist聰 groups. This accusation comes only a week after attempts by the Spanish media to link Morales聮s party 聴 the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) 聴 with the Basque separatist group ETA.
The announcement on January 30 that Australia鈥檚 first nuclear reactor was to be decommissioned sounded good. But residents and activists hoping for an end to the nuclear industry will be disappointed to hear that this is not the end of Australia鈥檚 nuclear experimentation. The old HIFAR reactor, Australia鈥檚 only multi-purpose research reactor, has been superseded by another reactor in the same suburb of Lucas Heights.
Nobody can quite believe their eyes and ears. More than 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has made it abundantly clear that his country is embarked on a socialist revolution.
On January 31, Bangladesh聮s acting electoral commission chief Mahfuzur Rahman and his four deputies resigned, paving the way for the country聮s caretaker government to appoint new commission members as demanded by the main alliance of opposition parties.
One of the best-known and most successful aspects of Venezuela聮s Bolivarian revolution has been the 聯social missions聰 聴 social programs funded by Venezuela聮s oil wealth aiming to solve the most pressing problems of the nation聮s poor majority. One of the best known and most successful social missions was one of the first to be established, the health program Mision Bario Adentro (聯Into the Neighbourghood聰). Established in April 2003, the mission has brought free quality health care via the establishment of popular health clinics in poor neighbourhoods across Venezuela. Before Barrio Adentro, health care was out of reach for many of the poor, as private health care was too expensive and the public health system was in a state of disrepair.
Global warming has 鈥渧ery likely鈥 been caused by humanity鈥檚 actions. This is one of the main conclusions of the fourth assessment report by the UN鈥檚 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on February 2.
鈥淚t must never again be the case that a death in custody, of Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal persons, will not lead to rigorous and accountable investigations and a comprehensive coronial inquiry.鈥
Mulrunji Doomadgee
I am pleased to see that justice will finally be delivered in regards to the death in custody on Palm Island. This is one victory among many for all those who have been fighting for justice ever since the tragic death of
The Labor and Liberal parties have been falling over each other in their rush to rub out the final vestiges of multiculturalism. In December, newly elected Labor leader Kevin Rudd renamed immigration spokesperson Tony Burke鈥檚 portfolio 鈥渋mmigration, integration and citizenship鈥. In his January 23 cabinet reshuffle, PM John Howard caught up, changing the name of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
At least six people were wounded on January 24, following an operation by the UN peacekeeping force (MINUSTAH). One victim, attended to immediately by Doctors Without Borders, says she was hit by stray bullets, according to the daily newspaper Le Nouvelliste.
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