British filmmaker Ken Loach鈥檚 decision to withdraw his film Looking for Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has led to a storm of debate.
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International students are big business in Australia. Enrolments peaked at a record 543,898 and generated $15.5 billion in export income in 2008.
On July 21, Access Economics released its forecasts for the Australian economy. It predicted Australia was through the worst of the recession.
A damning report from the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) has revealed widespread misconduct by Queensland police in recent years
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) hosted a forum on the jobs crisis in Sydney on July 20. The Jobs Summit: Pathways to Recovery brought academics, economists and trade unions together to discuss the effects of the global financial downturn on working people, and solutions to the resulting jobs crisis.
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Fifty people attended a rally at Redfern station on July 18. The protesters said Railcorp鈥檚 proposed staffing cuts were unjustified and put commuters at risk.
On July 22, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez again declared his complete support for the proposal by industrial workers for a new model of production based on workers鈥 control.
The first All-Stakeholders鈥 Conference aimed at drafting a new constitution in Zimbabwe was held in Harare on July 13-14. The constitutional reform process is the result of the agreement reached between President Robert Mugabe鈥檚 ZANU-PF party and the Movement for Democratic Change, when they formed a power-sharing government in February.
Workers at Britain鈥檚 only wind turbine factory, on the Isle of Wight, launched an indefinite occupation on July 20 to protest its pending closure and the loss of more than 600 green jobs.
Three weeks after the June 28 military coup that expelled Honduran President Manuel 鈥淢el鈥 Zelaya, the Central American country remains shaken by a profound and dynamic popular upsurge demanding Zelaya鈥檚 return and the restoration of democracy.
Around 60 people protested outside parliament house on July 25 in solidarity with recent democracy protests in Iran. They demanded the release of political prisoners, an end to censorship and the rejection of the recent presidential elections as a fraud.
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