MELBOURNE 鈥 August 15 marked 47 years since the US, Australia, the Netherlands and the United Nations made the New York Agreement, allowing West Papua to be invaded by Indonesia.
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Environment minister Peter Garrett announced on August 10 that $9 million will be spent on rescuing 100 Aboriginal languages. However, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre condemned the plan as 鈥渃ynical and false鈥.
A 200-strong public meeting that claimed to support the Palestine-Israel peace process was organised by right-wing union leader Paul Howes at the ALP conference in Sydney on July 30.
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CANBERRA鈥 鈥淎LBA (the Bolivarian Alliance for Latin America) is the most rapidly growing regional development in the world today鈥, Dr Tim Anderson, senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney, told a forum at the Australian National University on August 12.
South American presidents have expressed deep concerns over a United States plan to increase its military presence in Colombia. They voiced their fears at a Union of South American Nations (Unasur) summit in Quito, Ecuador on August 10.
A high number of homeless youth in Australia are lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual or intersex (LGBTI).
At 10:40pm on August 1, an unidentified man with a ski mask walked into a weekly meeting of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Trangender teenagers in Tel Aviv and shot indiscriminately with an automatic weapon. Two people were killed and a dozen wounded.
鈥淏HP Billiton and two other leading US energy companies operating in Australia have been caught up in a lobbying scandal that was aimed at defeating the landmark US climate change bill鈥, the Sydney Morning Herald said on August 13.
More than 100 people attended a conference in Belfast on August 8 on political persecution in the Basque Country organised by the Don鈥檛 Extradite the Basques Campaign as part of Feile an Phobail (Festival of the People).
On August 3, Ecuador celebrated a milestone when left-wing President Rafael Correa was sworn in for a second term 鈥 the first president to serve a second term since democracy was restored 30 years ago.
Recalling the words of Les MiserablesVictor Hugo, United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV) leader Heryck Rangel said 鈥渘othing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, and today in Venezuela, the time of socialism has arrived鈥.
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