In Copenhagen, Sydney-based climate justice advocate Natasha Verco, as well as US activist Noah Weiss, faces charges under Denmark鈥檚 鈥渢errorism鈥 laws. Verco faces up to 12-and-a-half year jail for her role in organising protests against the United Nations Copemnhagen climate summit in December.
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鈥淭he free, sovereign and independent homeland of our dreams will only come true if we radicalise the process and speed up the transition to socialism鈥, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wrote in his March 14 weekly column 鈥淐havez Lines鈥.
鈥淭he feminist movement was one of the strongest parts of the radicalisation of the 1960s and 1970s鈥, said Carla Gorton, a pro-choice activist and Socialist Alliance member from Cairns. She addressed a March 16 forum called 鈥淔eminism: Theory and Action鈥, presented by Resistance and the Socialist Alliance.
Journalists at the ABC have come under strong pressure from the organisation鈥檚 chairperson to give more weight to the views of climate change deniers.
In the Christmas Island detention centre's Alpha Compound 鈥 a maximum security-style section holding refugees from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka 鈥 Tamil refugees are desperately appealing to the Australian government not to send them back to Sri Lanka.
The inquest into the fatal boat explosion involving Afghan asylum seekers and the Australian navy in April 2009 has ended with appalling conclusions. Despite evidence suggesting the five deaths and extensive injuries could have been avoided if defence personnel had operated differently, the refugees received sole blame and may face criminal charges.
On March 15, opposition leader Tony Abbott said the shadow cabinet would support the federal ALP government鈥檚 extension of 鈥渋ncome management鈥 to more welfare recipients in the Northern Territory 鈥 not just those living in targeted Aboriginal communities.
Victorian fuel supplies could be threatened if agreement is not reached in an industrial dispute between Shell and tanker drivers at its Newport depot.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Niko Leka spoke with Professor Louise Newman Friday, chair of the Detention Expert Health Advisory Group (DEHAG) following her recent visit to immigration facilities on Christmas Island.
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On March 16, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib won his case for defamation against an article by Piers Akerman in February 2005 in the Daily Telegraph.
CAIRNS 鈥 Three Queensland doctors published a letter in the international medical journal The Lancet on March 6, highlighting the difficulties women in the state face accessing medical and surgical abortions.
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