The High Court declared last year's senate election in Western Australia void on February 20. Western Australians will head to the polls as early as March 29 to re-elect six senators, because after 1300 ballots went missing during the count, it was impossible to determine the last two senate spots from the election.
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Three years ago, the Museum of Broken Relationships was set up in Zagreb by former lovers Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisi to display items symbolising the end of various personal relationships.
Sue Bolton was elected to Moreland City Council in north Melbourne in November 2012 on the platform of 鈥渃ommunity need not developer greed鈥. As a member of the Socialist Alliance, Bolton sees it as important to take up the 鈥渂read and butter鈥 issues as well as broader social justice issues.
When is it considered legitimate to try to overthrow a democratically-elected government? In Washington, the answer has always been simple: when the US government says it is. Not surprisingly, that is not the way Latin American governments generally see it.
For days after the National Party (NP) was declared the winner of widely disputed elections on November 24, thousands of people protested on the streets of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa.
In what the Sydney Morning Herald described as the "darkest night" in Sydney Football Club's history, active supporters of the A-League football (soccer) club 鈥 known as "the Cove" 鈥 staged a walkout during the February 8 match against Adelaide United in protest against heavy-handed security tactics.
From its inception, 91自拍论坛 Weekly has reported on the fight against discrimination suffered by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community.
It鈥檚 impossible to ignore any longer just how cruel and irrational the government鈥檚 war on refugees has become after violent attacks in the Manus Island detention centre left one dead and scores injured.
Calls to boycott the Sydney Biennale unless it cuts ties with major sponsor Transfield 鈥 which holds government contracts to provide welfare services in immigration detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island 鈥 have been gaining momentum.
A group of high-profile artists involved in the Biennale have , calling on them to withdraw from the funding agreement with Transfield.
After the collapse of Ansett Airlines and National Textiles in 2001 鈥 both of which owed their employees millions of dollars in unpaid entitlements 鈥 the then-John Howard government was forced to introduce legislation establishing the General Employee Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme, which guaranteed basic entitlements for workers if a company went broke.
You know, unless asylum seekers somehow managed to sneak into this country and made it all the way to Geelong to pose as Alcoa executives to announce yet another plant closure at the cost of nearly a thousand more jobs, then I really think this nation has some bigger goddamn problems than boats carrying refugees asking for help.
The Tony Abbott government has done something no other government in the world has done before, asking UNESCO to take one of the nation鈥檚 unique natural areas off the World Heritage list.
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