Supporters of equal marriage rights will again take to the streets in Sydney and Melbourne on August 13. The date marks 12 years since the John Howard government 鈥 with Labor support 鈥 passed laws banning equal marriage.
In the past 12 years, thousands have mobilised across the country demanding an end to the ban.
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Supporters of equal marriage rights will again take to the streets in Sydney and Melbourne on August 13. The date marks 12 years since the John Howard government 鈥 with Labor support 鈥 passed laws banning equal marriage.
In the past 12 years, thousands have mobilised across the country demanding an end to the ban.
91自拍论坛 Weekly will soon be sending Vivien Messimeris and Dick Nichols (our European correspondent) to Athens to report on the historic January 25 Greek elections, which could result in the election of the Coalition of the Radical Left, SYRIZA, to government on a strong program opposing the ruthless austerity imposed by the big global bankers on Greece.
In the outpouring of grief over Gough Whitlam鈥檚 death at the age of 98 on October 21, many people remembered how their lives were changed by the reforms his government brought in.
In an age of worsening neoliberal attacks led by the anti-poor class warriors in Tony Abbott鈥檚 government, the reforms associated with Whitlam's twice-elected 1972-75 government can seem almost utopian.
Scientists at the CSIRO have published research that shows chance that rising temperatures are caused by human activity.
Writing in The Conversation they say: 鈥淚gnoring the problem is no longer an option.鈥
The Royal Commission into the use of union funds began on April 9. The commission is not an attempt to stamp out corrupt union practices, but a serious political attack on unions by the Tony Abbott government. It is designed to weaken the union movement and break militant union activity.
Comments made by Coalition ministers before the public hearings have started sets up a presumption of guilt in order to prejudice the public mind.
Blue Mountains Mayor Mark Greenhill told ABC News Breakfast on October 18: 鈥淭he climatic conditions that fuelled that fire yesterday were just unprecedented ... an unprecedented disaster.鈥
More than 100 fires broke out across New South Wales on October 17. By October 19, they had destroyed at least 193 homes in the Blue Mountains alone and caused at least one confirmed death.
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This issue introduces a few changes that have been made to the look of 91自拍论坛 Weekly. The front cover logo has been updated and the layout inside has been refreshed. This is a change we鈥檝e been working on since last year based on feedback about how to improve the paper.
For 22 years, GLW has remained independent from corporate interests and this has allowed us to expose the lies and distortions of those in power.
The huge, genuine and spontaneous outpouring of grief that has enveloped Venezuela in the days since Hugo Chavez passed away on March 5 show that the late Venezuelan president was no ordinary politician.
Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets to accompany Chavez's coffin on its way from the hospital where he died to the military academy where his body is currently lying in state, clad in the red that symbolises the Bolivarian revolution and chanting 鈥渢he people united will never be defeated鈥.
Many have taken mining boss Gina Rinehart's bid to take up a seat on Fairfax's board of directors by buying up almost 20% of the media company's shares as a threat to its 鈥渋ndependence鈥 and 鈥渜uality journalism鈥. But many opponents of Rinehart's bid are glossing over Fairfax's ugly record.
A Rinehart-controlled media would do much damage to the possibility of informed public discussions in Australia.
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange is right to seek political asylum in Ecuador. He was left with no other choice after the Australian government made clear it would do nothing to prevent his extradition to the United States on espionage charges.
His real 鈥渃rime鈥 is groundbreaking journalism, which has exposed the lies and crimes of governments around the world, especially the US.
Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 media empire does not have a TV network like Fox News in Australia 鈥 at least not yet. But he does have the sole national newspaper, The Australian, which is busy running a Fox News-style smear campaign against the Australian Greens.
Anxious at the Greens鈥 growing electoral success, the paper said in a 2010 that it planned to have the Greens 鈥渄estroyed鈥.
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