Four years ago, 17-year-old Aboriginal teenage Thomas 聯TJ聰 Hickey was impaled on a metal-spiked fence in Sydney聮s inner-city Waterloo suburb after his bicycle was rammed by a police vehicle. Proper medical practices were not followed by the police and TJ died in hospital the next day, February 15. If proper practices had been followed, TJ would probably be alive today.
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聯General [David] Petraeus has warned that too fast a drawdown [of US troops] could result in the disintegration of the Iraqi security forces聰, US President George Bush declared in his January 28 聯state of the union聰 speech to the US Congress.
This is a statement by the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas). One of the main organisations that founded Papernas is the People聮s Democratic Party (PRD), which played a leading role in the mass movement that overthrew Suharto in 1998. The PRD is building Papernas to continue the struggle against the neoliberal anti-poor policies that have been continued by post-Suharto governments.
The United Firefighters Union (UFU) of Australia Tasmanian branch plans to escalate industrial action on February 11 if their demands are not met. Members are calling for a fair resolution to a superannuation dispute from last year and for a proper pay increase. They also want an independent review into workload and other problems at the dispatch and communications centre.
鈥淲e lack everything鈥 Frances Buitrago, a small shopkeeper in the city of Merida, commented to 91自拍论坛 Weekly. 鈥淭here isn鈥檛 any milk, rice, mayonnaise, oil, wheat, or butter.鈥
Genocidal mass murderer and former Indonesian dictator Suharto died in hospital in Jakarta on January 27, aged 86, never having faced justice for the millions of people he killed or the billions of dollars he stole during his three decades in power. While Suharto may be gone, the hypocrisy of his rich-country supporters 聴 especially Australia 聴 lives on.
The February 1 West Australian newspaper聮s website reported that police refused to reveal the results of a post-mortem examination on the body of an Aboriginal elder who died in police custody while being taken to Kalgoorlie in the back of a van.
Demanding, impatient, spoiled, bad at communicating 聴 allegedly these are the character traits of 聯Generation Y聰. Originally used in 1993 to describe children born between 1980 and 2000, the label has been featured in the media quite a lot lately.
The campaign to stop the dredging of a new shipping channel in Port Phillip Bay had a partial victory on January 30 when a Federal Court judge ruled that the Blue Wedges environmental cCoalition must be given at least 24 hours鈥 notice of any plan to begin work on the $969 million project.
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