ShareIt has been a monumental week for LGBT rights in Australia – and Queensland in particular – although Matt Williams says it could have been a whole lot better.
Qld Premier Anna Bligh addresses a pro-equality rally outside the Qld Parliament....
4 December, 2011 8:52 am / 1 comment
ShareThe Queensland Government seeks to massively expand CSG development in Queensland despite real environmental risks. Tim Badrick explains.
Anna Blgh is up close and personal with CSG developer (photo courtesy Murray Ware)
How dare Queensland...
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ShareNews Ltd’s coverage of the Government’s carbon price policy has been so negative and one-dimensional that some papers in the stable are misleading the public by doing partisan campaigning rather than balanced reporting, says a new...
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ShareAmendment currently before Congress seeks to re-establish newly outlawed US torture techniques. Jeffrey Kaye from Truthout reports.
Artist's rendering of a detainee in goggles and earmuffs used for sensory deprivation. (Image: Jared...
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December 1s t this year is 157th the anniversary of the Eureka Stockade — which was a truly defining moment in the history of this land, says Kim Peart.
On the 1st of December 1854 the first Southern Cross flag was raised at...
1 December, 2011 9:46 pm / 5 comments
ShareIt didn’t take long for the Murdoch press to start the “let’s get Peter Slipper” ball rolling. Senior correspondent Barry Everingham comments.
The Liberal Party’s Melbourne newspaper, published under the banner of “Herald...
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ShareSenator Bill Heffernan, the Chairman of the Senate Standing References Committee on Rural Affairs & Transport yesterday released the Committee’s report on the Impact of Coal Seam Gas Extraction on the Murray-Darling Basin. The...
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PETA says we shouldn’t wear fur under any circumstances, but what about when the fur is the unavoidable by-products of vermin eradication? Emily Osmond reports.
Victorian university student Molly Herben attracted...
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