Sydney is the 鈥渟ex capital鈥 of Australia, said an article in the November 12 Daily Telegraph, which called the city the 鈥淎msterdam of the South Pacific鈥.
The article reported recent figures from the Government Interagency Brothels Taskforce that showed 271 legal brothels in the state, as well as claims that 鈥渢he industry is being infiltrated by organised crime鈥. The figures, which were labelled 鈥渟hocking鈥, were blamed on 鈥渄ysfunctional planning laws and legislation鈥 by one figure quoted.
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鈥淢um鈥檚 dead鈥. The gloomy faced Sujendran Gunesekaram greeted me, as we met in person for the first time. His mother died of a heart attack on September 5, after suffering for three years.
Sujendran is a 27-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil originally from Muttur in Trincomalee, the war-hit town in the east. He was one of 254 asylum seekers on the Australia-bound boat Jeya Lestari that moored off at the port in Merak, Indonesia in October 2009.
One of the most vital features of the Bolivarian revolution underway in Venezuela is the development by workers and their organisations of different forms of workers鈥 control in their workplaces and communities.
The increasing participation and control by workers is taking place at the same time as hundreds of companies have been nationalised.
The launch of the community guide to the draft Murray Darling Basin Plan marks the latest step in the largely bipartisan process of water reform that started with the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reforms of 1994.
It also graphically displays the risks inherent in the increasingly centralised, Commonwealth-driven approach to water planning that developed under the Howard government and has intensified since.
It鈥檚 that time of the year again. It鈥檚 the festival of festivals to boost the profits of giant retail stores. The 鈥淪pirit of Christmas鈥 demands to be fed with your maxed out credit card.
There鈥檚 a new desperation to this seasonal message this year. The shoppers are not splurging like they should.
A recent Westpac survey found that consumers would spend 34% less in 2010 than in 2009.
Latin America Social Forum (Sydney) co-founder and respected Latin American community activist Victor-Hugo Munoz was awarded a Diploma of Honour on December 4 by the Guatemala Network for Peace and Development.
The award acknowledged Munoz鈥檚 tireless, decades-long work in defence of human rights in Guatemala.
More than 250,000 confidential files from United States embassies and consulates around the world sit in the database of whistleblower website Wikileaks.
鈥 A secret, US-backed operation had started to remove enriched uranium spent fuel from a Pakistani nuclear reactor research facility.
鈥 The US, Israel and several Middle East countries collaborated to isolate and threaten Iran, and several European countries were revealed to be holding US-owned nuclear weapons on their soil.
Ten activists from the Friends of Palestine WA staged an action outside the Seacret booth at Carousel shopping centre in Perth on November 27. This action was part of the international "boycott, divestment and sanctions" campaign against Apartheid Israel.
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