Recently, an organised criminal group called 鈥淩oastbusters鈥 were exposed as a gang-rape organisation who targeted intoxicated and underage girls, then publicly shamed them online.
The police knew about this group鈥檚 action since 2011 but failed to stop them. Police claimed they were powerless to act because none of the girls who were raped are 鈥渂rave enough鈥 to lay a formal complaint. It has since transpired that four complaints were ignored.
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Malaysia's Belum-Temengor rainforest is a place of amazing natural wonders. More than 130 million years old, this 300,000 hectare forest is home to a vast number of species of animals and plants, many of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
This pristine forest remains one of the largest untouched forest reserves in Peninsular Malaysia. It is home to 14 threatened species and may lead to the discovery of more new species.
New at LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal.听Socialist strategy and 'left reformism'听补苍诲听'Growth imperative' versus 'climate imperative'.
The statement below was released by the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM, a Filipino socialist party) on November 10 in response the huge humanitarian disaster caused by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. Details on how to donate to the PLM's relief efforts at at the bottom. You can also initiated by the Philippines Movement for Climate Justice.
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Let Our People Live! Save Lives, Redistribute Food, Stop the Economic and Environment Plunder! Climate Justice Now!
Jahangir Hosseini has been on hunger strike outside the immigration offices in Melbourne since September 19. He has been joined by his wife and five other Iranians. He is drinking water but is refusing all food.
Hosseini feels dizzy and has lost a significant amount of weight but he is determined to remain on hunger strike until seven Iranian hostages being held in an Iraqi jail have been freed.
Hosseini told 91自拍论坛 Weekly this is his fifth hunger strike.
The company responsible for running many of Australia鈥檚 refugee detention centres, Serco, has been accused of ordering asylum seekers not to speak to the media as the federal government moves to deport more asylum seekers to their country of origin.
Asylum seekers in the Darwin Airport Lodge (DAL) detention centre have been subject to intimidation and several have been moved to Christmas Island after speaking to the media.
The Australian mainstream media publishes a 鈥渟ubstantial amount鈥 of articles critical of the scientific consensus on climate change, says . The report has found that Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 News Corp publications have a high rate of climate change scepticism, which leaves a large section of Australia without information on climate change science.
WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam was officially re-elected on November 4 after an historic recount of WA Senate votes from the September federal election. He and the Sports Party鈥檚 Wayne Dropulich won over the ALP's Louise Pratt and Dio Wang from the Palmer United Party.
Before the recount, a 14 vote difference between the Christian Democrats and the Shooters and Fishers Party led to a preference flow that supported Pratt. After the recount, a 12 vote margin favoured Ludlam.
It was nice of former prime minister and spending his politician's pension wisely by flying to Britain to give a talk insisting the threat of climate change was 鈥渆xaggerated鈥.
Howard gave the keynote address at the Global Warming Policy Foundation on November 5. The foundation was set up by climate 鈥渟ceptic鈥 and former chancellor in Margaret Thatcher's government Nigel Lawson.
Unity negotiations between Australia's two largest socialist organisations, the Socialist Alliance and Socialist Alternative, ended after the latter's National Committee decided on October 26-27 that the unity process had 鈥渞eached an impasse and consequently we are for ending the negotiations with the Alliance鈥.
Over the past few months there were tactical disagreements between the two groups over how to advance the movements for the rights of asylum seekers and for women's liberation.
There is one obvious answer to the climate change crisis that is rarely up for discussion 鈥 the government has to take the lead with a huge green public investment drive.
About 100 Aboriginal people and their supporters gathered at Hyde Park fountain in Sydney on November 1 to protest against the continued desecration of Aboriginal sites across NSW by coal and coal seam gas mining companies Boggabri Coal, Whitehaven Coal and Santos.
The rally was organised by Gomeroi people from Gunnedah in north-west New South Wales. People of all ages were present, from young children to elders.
Steve Talbott spoke to the crowd informing them of the cooperation between the state government and mining companies.
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