Women and men have been picketing events at which Queensland Premier Anna Bligh speaks. They are protesting against Bligh鈥檚 refusal to have her attorney-general drop criminal charges against a Cairns couple for allegedly procuring an abortion.
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Freddo Frog charge
A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy in living in Northam in regional Western Australia was charged with stealing a Freddo Frog chocolate. He was told he would face court over this matter. The worse part of this story is that he did
There鈥檚 a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars & the Rise and Fall of 鈥60s Counter-Culture
By Peter Doggett
Canongate, 2008
598 pages, $29.95 (pb)
鈥淭here鈥檚 no village鈥, 75-year-old Sam Telly said. 鈥淚鈥檓 from a hiding place.鈥
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on November 15 that the only 鈥減ractical solution鈥 to tensions with neighbouring Colombia, which escalated as a result of an October 30 military pact between the US and Colombian governments, is an 鈥渋mmediate鈥 end to the deal.
United States: UN investigator slams 'shameful neglect' of homeless
"A United Nations special investigator who was blocked from visiting the US by the Bush administration has accused the American government of pouring billions of dollars into
The article published below is by Santiago Reyes, a representative of the Honduras National Front of Resistance Against the Coup (FNRG) based in Australia. It has been translated from Spanish by Anabel Morales.
The administration of US President Barack Obama has announced it will bring five Guantanamo Bay detainees to the US for prosecution in federal courts.
The Guantanamo Bay prison camp is still open and conditions inside it are reportedly worse than before US President Barack Obama took office. It has been reported that the camp will not be closed by the January deadline set by Obama.
When General Suharto, the West鈥檚 man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered 鈥渁 gleam of light in Asia鈥, rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million 鈥渃ommunists鈥 was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard Nixon called 鈥渢he richest hoard of natural resources, the greatest prize in south-east Asia鈥.
Most people reading or hearing the news story last week about the 12-year-old Aboriginal boy who was taken to court in Western Australia (WA) and charged with receiving stolen goods 鈥 a 70 cent chocolate Freddo 鈥 would have thought this was a sick joke.
Ignoring calls from the Washington-based Human Rights Watch to tie the granting of further money to the Sri Lankan government to demands such as resettling the more than 250,000 Tamils imprisoned in detention camps, the International Monetary Fund has granted the regime a further $329.4 million.
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