"Un nuovo patto sociale", questo lo slogan. Il 17 novembre avrà inizio a Melbourne, in Australia, il quinto congresso mondiale della Confederazione sindacale internazionale, Ituc–Csi, l’organizzazione sindacale mondiale più grande, che raggruppa 332 organizzazioni sindacali affiliate, in 163 paesi, con un’affiliazione totale di 200 milioni di lavoratrici e lavoratori.
A Four Corners investigation can reveal the US Air Force is planning to deploy up to six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Tindal air base near Darwin, as fears grow that China is preparing for an assault on Taiwan.
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Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has called on the Prime Minister to use his Washington trip to negotiate the release of Australian journalist Julian Assange with his new partners in the AUKUS alliance.
“Mr Assange should be at home with his young family, watching his two little boys grow up,” Mr Wilkie said. “But instead he’s languishing in one of the United Kingdom’s most notorious prisons after recently losing a British High Court battle to stop the United States Government from expanding its appeal against an earlier refusal to allow his extradition. A full appeal hearing is expected next month.
Professor Drahos: "So farmers, librarians, educators, cultural innovators, young people who want to culturally innovate, who want to parody for example a trade mark and suddenly find themselves threatened become theyre making fun of somebody. I mean there are so many people that have an interest in this. We live in a networked world. I see more and more networking amongst NGOs. I think there is a growing sense in which we have to realize we are not alone. That we can fight back."
Kalam. Comments GE: "India exploded its first atomic bomb in 1974, usingplutonium produced in a research reactor which wasgiven to India as a gift from the Government of Canada. Canada announced that it was breaking off all nuclear cooperation with India
Ruddiman’s findings led to the “early anthropogenic hypothesis”. This is the idea that early agriculturalists caused an anomalous reversal in natural declines of atmospheric carbon dioxide 7,000 years ago and methane about 5,000 years ago.
Since going into voluntary incarceration at the Ecuadorean Embassy in Knightsbridge in July last year, the 41-year-old Australian has devoted weeks, days and hours organising his tilt at one of Victoria's Senate seats. Six of the 12 are up for grabs on September 14. ... A quota for election of a senator is around 16 per cent of the State vote or, after distribution of preferences, some 450,000 votes. ... Assange strategists are focused on not only building a competitive primary vote but also attracting a swag of preferences from disgruntled Labor voters, Greens, former Australian Democrats and even Liberal libertarians.
Australia is working on a legally binding ban on the controversial geoengineering technique known as ocean fertilization, Agence France-Presse reports Wednesday. Ocean fertilization involves dumping iron into the ocean to fertilize plankton on the ocean floor—which, as the theory goes, would absorb carbon dioxide before it is released into the atmosphere.