Occupy Wall Street Protests Continue – When Occupy Wall Street began on September 17, the protest consisted of a few hundred people speaking out about corporate greed and inequality. They practiced tai chi in a park near Wall Street, painted homemade signs and discussed what their demands should be. Now, almost three weeks later, the [...]
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Detention Center Protest Continues – Five local residents have travelled Canberra at their own expense in a bid to lobby the prime minister and independent MPs to delay the centre’s opening. Weeks of community mediation over the Inverbrackie centre have failed to quell local concerns that health and education services will be stretched to the [...]
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The commonwealtgames a sham before it even started. Sub standard facilities, an athletes village that was filthy and security concerns made the games a joke before they even started. Withthe poor preparation came accusations of corruption. Hardly any tickets were sold. Even the Indian people didn’t care about the games. Now that the games have [...]
Tags: Accusations, Athletes Village, Australian Athletes, Commonwealth Games, corruption, Extreme Case, india, joke, Major Sporting Events, Opponents, protest, Referees, Rude Gestures, Security Concerns, Sham
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Villawood Detainees Continue Protest – The men, believed to be nine Sri Lankan Tamils, one Afghan and one Iraqi, climbed on to the detention centre roof yesterday afternoon after a Fijian man fell to his death in front of other detainees just hours before he was due to be deported. This morning, the men appear [...]
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Coalition Gains Popularity – The Abbott Coalition has broken through for the first time to a clear election-winning lead of 53-47 per cent in an Age/Nielsen poll that will rattle Labor and intensify pressure to change its increasingly unpopular mining tax. The government is losing the resource tax debate, with support for the tax down [...]
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