On September 2, 20,000 teachers across New South Wales stopped work for two hours.
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聯The maximum gusts of 340 kilometers per hour registered at the Paso Real Meteorological Center, San Diego, Pinar del Rio province, during the passing of Hurricane Gustav, is the highest recorded in Cuba聰, a September 3 Granma article reported about the hurricane that hit Cuba聮s western region on August 30.
The federal government鈥檚 climate adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, told the National Press Club on September 5 that while climate change is 鈥渄iabolical鈥, 鈥渋ntractable鈥 and 鈥渄aunting鈥, Australia is a 鈥渟pecial case鈥 and cannot be expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions to the same extent as other 鈥渨ealthy nations鈥.
The overwhelming public opposition to electricity privatisation in NSW has claimed the political scalps of former premier Morris Iemma, hated treasurer Michael Costa and deputy premier John Watkins.
For construction union delegate Howard Byrnes, who is standing for the Socialist Alliance in the Marrickville council elections, the struggle over the privatisation of electricity, the alarming scientific news about climate change, and Labor聮s cuts to services and wages have provided opportunities to talk up the need for a democratic, working-class party.
The prescription of oral contraceptives to a 14-year-old without her parents聮 knowledge has triggered a debate over adolescents聮 access to confidential health care. The student of Bellarine Secondary College in Victoria was taken by a school nurse to a doctor, who prescribed the medication.
Young people 鈥渁re the present 鈥 whether we have a future or not depends on what we as young people do or don鈥檛 do鈥, proclaimed student leader and minister for the presidency, Hector Rodriguez, speaking on August 22 to thousands of members of the youth organisation of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the PSUV Youth (JPSUV).
If the firm Altona Resources has its way, South Australia within five years will have a major new source of base-load electricity, set to feed into the power grid for many decades to come. Not only that, but the firm promises to supply the Australian market with as much as 10 million barrels per year of diesel fuel.
Fairfax journalists, photographers, artists and graphic designers returned to work on September 1 after a four-day strike. The strike affected the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Age, the Illawarra Mercury and the Newcastle Herald.
On August 29, Dr Mohamed Haneef was officially declared聯no longer a person of interest聰 聴 after more than 12 months of 聯investigations聰 that included detention without charge, the then-federal Howard government revoking his visa, and continual insinuations of 聯support for terrorism聰, at a total cost of over $8.5 million.
On September 2, nine Australian soldiers were wounded 聴 one left in a critical condition 聴 in an ambush in southern Afghanistan. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) claims the Australian soldiers killed several of the alleged Taliban fighters responsible for the attack.
Although it is one of the most commonly performed medical procedures in the world, abortion is still a crime in Victoria under the 1958 Victorian Crimes Act. Women have only been able to access abortion because in 1969 Justice Menhennitt ruled that a doctor could perform an abortion if continuing a pregnancy endangered the woman聮s life or health.
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