In August 2004, around the same time as the Howard Coalition government banned same-sex marriage, the religious right held an anti-gay marriage forum at Parliament House in Canberra. It was attended by about 2000 people.
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The Beijing Olympic games, which began on August 8, are shaping up to be a perfect reflection of our times — taking place against a backdrop of human rights abuses, terrorism scares and under a blanket of chemical smog.
Cups with no Handles: Memoir of a Grassroots Activist
By Carolyn Landon
Hybrid Publishers, 2008
288 pages, $29.95 (pb)
By Carolyn Landon
Hybrid Publishers, 2008
288 pages, $29.95 (pb)
The conservative Christian group Hillsong has launched a controversial new youth program Shine, aimed, it says, at promoting self-esteem in teenage girls considered to be at risk, due to personal problems or behavioural issues.
Like the good Count of Transylvania, the so-called Doha Round of trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) collapsed twice in Cancun in 2003 and in Potsdam in 2007 only to come back from the dead.
@details = Growing up Asian in AustraliaEdited by Alice PungBlack Inc, 2008, $27.95 (pb)
Hydrologists such as professors Peter Cullen, Richard Kingsford and Derek Eamus, speaking at public forums in NSW earlier this year, warned that Australians are extracting water from stressed rivers and artesian systems faster than it is being replenished.
A bombing that killed five Hamas members and a five-year-old girl on July 25 in the Gaza Strip has escalated tensions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories between the Hamas government in Gaza and the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA), based in the West Bank.
The following call to action has been issued by the Adelaide-based Stop the War Fair committee.
The defeat of the Colorado Party (PC) in the April presidential election meant much more than a change of government in Paraguay.
Unionists protested on July 20 in San Francisco against the decision by Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut the wages of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of US$6.55 per hour, alleging he must do so because the state legislature has not passed a budget.
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