Queensland is the biggest coal producing state in the biggest coal producing country in the world, John MacKenzie of Friends of the Earth told an August 6 Socialist Alliance forum.
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South Australian teachers undertook four days of rolling stoppages and community rallies across the state from August 4-7 in an attempt to force the state government to re-negotiate its pay and funding arrangement for public schools and TAFEs. Eighty-three per cent of teachers voted in favour of the stoppages in workplace ballots in late July.
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Palestinian refugee Akram al Masri, 31, who was deported from Australia in 2002, has been shot dead in his homeland less than six months after Australian authorities allegedly refused him a visitors visa.
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The fourth annual Equal Love rally and exchange of Midwinta vows was held in Melbourne on August 3.
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Abolish the ABCC! Support rights of building workers! was the message on protesters placards outside PM Kevin Rudds electorate office in Morningside on August 8.
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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.
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From indigenous rights to liberation theology, Brisbanes third Latin American Film Festival will showcase inspiring films.
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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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Fifty people took part in a discussion around the topic Sex, sexuality and the church hosted by the Socialist Alliance on August 6.
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If only 0.3% of the worlds current nuclear armaments were used, it would create a nuclear winter, and the end of humanity on this planet, Dr Marianne Hanson, senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Queensland, told the Brisbane Hiroshima Day rally on August 3. The rally attracted 100 people.
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With the impact of global warming already being felt, it can be hard to feel positive about the future. However, an August 2 climate justice seminar at Melbourne University provided some positive directions for the 140 people who attended.
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Farmers in Liverpool Plains, south of Tamworth, are taking on BHP Billiton’s drive for black gold.