The Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (YACV) is calling on the Victorian government to consider lowering the voting age, following the tabling of a report in the ACT parliament recommending 16- and 17-year-olds in the territory be given the vote.
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In the latest attempt to intimidate forest protesters and restrict freedom of speech in Tasmania, the state government聮s Forestry Tasmania agency is suing forest activist Allana Beltran, who is also known as the 聯Weld Angel聰.
On October 5, Resistance held a protest outside the US consulate to offer solidarity to the people of Bolivia and Venezuela in the face of the campaign against their democratically elected governments by the US. Both countries are targets of Washington for their refusal to allow foreign oil and gas corporations to control their natural resources and determine their future.
On October 5, 350 union members and their supporters marched through Fortitude Valley to rally at a park in the north Brisbane suburb of New Farm to protest the refusal of Foster聮s Yatala brewery to negotiate with unions over the latest pay agreement.
The surprise decision in August by Colombian President Alavaro Uribe to allow the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to mediate in negotiations for a humanitarian exchange of 45 hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC 聴 Colombia聮s largest guerrilla group), for 500 guerrilla insurgents held in Colombian jails, has given many Colombians hope that a humanitarian accord to swap prisoners could develop into broader and lasting peace negotiations that would put an end to more than 40 years of civil war.
A statement by federal ALP leader Kevin Rudd that a Labor government would seek to have Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad charged with 聯inciting genocide聰 attracted front-page coverage in the October 3 Australian and ridicule from foreign minister Alexander Downer.
Venezuela鈥檚 Bolivarian revolution, led by socialist President Hugo Chavez, has captured the imagination of people around the world and sparked widespread commentary on the nature of the process of social change under way in the oil-rich South American nation.
Forty years after his assassination, Ernesto 鈥淐he鈥 Guevara remains ubiquitous. His image is familiar to everyone. Taken by Alberto Korda, the famous photo of Che shows a young revolutionary looking into the middle-distance with an expression of intense, steely determination. The image has come to symbolise the struggle for Third Wold independence, and is synonymous with the Cuban Revolution, which overthrew a US-backed dictator to institutionalise people鈥檚 power.
Class-free analysis seeking to justify Beijing聮s pursuit of capitalism with a human face will likely find a place in the Communist Party of China聮s constitution at the party聮s 17th congress, which begins on October 15. A scheduled constitutional amendment is expected to be couched in such terms as the pursuit of a 聯socialist harmonious society聰 and a 聯people-centred聰 聯scientific concept of development聰, which will be credited as 聯major theoretical developments聰 of CPC general secretary Hu Jintao.
The message of the new CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology report to the Australian Climate Change Science Program, Climate Change in Australia, couldn聮t be simpler: Stop fiddling while Australia burns!
As the October 24 hearing approaches for the Perth-Mandurah railway tunnel construction workers 聴 who are being prosecuted by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) for taking 聯unlawful聰 industrial action in February 2006 against the sacking of the health and safety union representative 聴 new research has exposed 聯critically high聰 levels of injury in the construction industry.
The federal government should restore Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef聮s work visa immediately, and pay him compensation for distress and financial loss, Jim McIlroy, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the south Brisbane seat of Griffith, told Green left Weekly. Griffith is held by ALP leader Kevin Rudd.
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