On January 29, woodchipping giant Gunns Limited has dropped its law suits against the last four defendants in the 鈥淕unns 20鈥 case and agreed to pay the four $155,088 for legal costs.
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Although New Zealand, like Australia, has not been as badly affected by the global economic crisis as the US or Europe, workers are facing hardship.
The Men Who Killed Qantas: Greed, Lies and Crashes and How They Destroyed the Reputation of the World鈥檚 Safest Airline
By Matthew Benns,
William Heinemann, 2009,
307 pp, $34.95 (pb)
On January 26, three refugee advocates 鈥 Sydney-based Tamil community activist Sara Nathan, Pamela Curr from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Melbourne, and Jessica Chandrashekar from the Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for Relief of Tamils 鈥 were arrested in Merak, Indonesia.
The Live Red Art Award and Festival, an initiative supported by Cultural Dissent seeks to promote and recognize art that investigates a radical social and political perspective.
The article below is abridged from a statement by the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) on the ending of its seven-week industrial dispute with hotel and gambling company Sun International.
More US soldier deaths by suicide than combat
"[Mental health expert] Zul Merali said while more than 4,500 U.S. military personnel have died in combat since the beginning of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, 'a larger number are falling when
鈥淲e are human beings, why are we ignored?鈥, a Tamil refugee inside the Christmas Island detention centre told 91自拍论坛 Weekly on the night of January 28.
Incumbent and Sri Lanka Freedom Party candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa has won the January 26 presidential election, receiving 58% of votes cast.
The coronial inquest into the fatal explosion onboard a boat carrying Afghan asylum seekers in April 2009 began on January 25. Five people died and many were injured.
Sri Lanka was guilty of crimes against humanity for their war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that concluded last May, a People鈥檚 Tribunal in Dublin on January 14-16 found.
You鈥檝e got to love Fox News. It鈥檚 like the saying on the t-shirt: 鈥淚s that the truth or did you see it on Fox鈥?
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