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The Australian environment movement along with the union movement organised some of the biggest rallies Australia has seen in some time last weekend.
The second in the two-part series from Kim Sauberg on allowing citizens to better use technology to uncover truth.
When I was a child, and the internet was just a bizarre U.S. military experiment, I looked hopefully to computers as a possible future solver of all things factual.
Outgoing senator Guy Barnett chairs an inquiry into film and literature classification, and hopes to extend the scheme to all "artwork".
It is testament to man's tremendous ingenuity that we can harness forces of nature so mighty and terrible they threaten not only humanity, but the very survival of every organism on this earth.
As a child, in the 70s, I remember reading about the labour-saving devices that would make drudgery a historical curiosity. Whether in Omni magazine, or Sunday newspaper liftouts, robots and mechanisation promised that we all could join the chattering classes, with time available for political awareness and participation.
In this the first of a two-part series, theangle.org publishes a summary of Greens policies in the upcoming Victorian state election. This article was originally published at Left Focus.
Greens' candidate for the seat of Macquarie Carmel McCallum talks to theangle's Rich Bowden about her chances of victory in the western Sydney/Blue Mountains seat, the issues that most concern voters and her opinion of the strength of the asylum seeker issue.
John Passant makes the case for the nationalisation of the Commonwealth Bank in his blog En Passant
While water activists and environmentalists have hailed the recent decision by the UN General Assembly to grant access to safe water and adequate sanitation as a human right, Australia and New Zealand followed the United States, Canada and the UK in abstaining from the vote.
Reading back over my very first article for theangle.org it's interesting to note the changes (or lack of them) to Australia’s policies regarding treatment of asylum seekers.
On 9 April 2010, the Minister of Immigration Chris Evans announced changes to Australian immigration processing, whereby the processing of asylum applications for both Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers was stopped.
Melbourne-based writer, blogger and activist Kevin Rennie originally wrote this article on an East Timor solution for refugees for an international audience as part of the European Journalism Centre's Th!nk3 blogging project. We reprint it here with his kind permission.
ADB Assistant Chief Economist Juzhong Zhuang, editor of a new book on inequality and inclusive growth in Asia, says rising growth rates in Asia have masked rising inequality, leading to two faces of Asia - one shining and the other suffering.
In a conference with ramifications in the Asia Pacific region, USAID administrator Rajiv Shah has called on the UN's World Food Program to show leadership in the global battle against hunger.
In the first of a series, theangle's managing editor Alex Schlotzer shares tips and tricks for the use of photo sharing sites for the activist and citizen reporter. This article first appeared in an April 16 post in Alex's blog.
A growing population and increasing industrialisation have been listed as the chief threats to water supply in the Asia Pacific, according to a UN-sponsored report released last month.
By Fausto Belo Ximenes: I do agree to a certain degree that the support from the international community has been very limited. Yet it is paramount importance to understand the nature of the so-called international community and to what extent it could be influential in the world politics. The international community functions largely [if...
Paul Bateson, Associate Consultant at sustainability advisers EcoSteps, talks to Rich Bowden about the recent Tourism Investment for the Development of Enterprise and Sustainability (TIDES) conference in Apia, Samoa.
Sanitation uptake in developing countries can be improved using a more innovative and market-based approach, recent research by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed.
Two researchers from Western Australia's Murdoch University have combined to dispel the myths and misconceptions surrounding those seeking asylum in Australia.
theangle.org proudly announces the latest in our live event coverage -- a live and detailed commentary on Victorian vital Altona by-election. We'll be providing an analysis of the ballot count and the candidates' campaigns in this important pointer to the state and federal elections to be held later in the year.
Regional editor Alex Schlotzer takes a look at what lies ahead for the big, and not-so-big, political players in the Southeast Asia/Pacific in 2010.
By Jon Moore: Part IV There is a mantra amongst the Left Greens regarding energy efficiency and lower energy costs. They believe energy efficiency is the first step to “saving the world”. The argument goes along these lines: If we use energy more efficiently then we will use less, if we use less we...
theangle's contributing regional editor Alex Schlotzer reports on "Share the Spirit" in Melbourne -- an Australia Day festival where Indigenous and non-indigenous people come together to celebrate the sharing the country.
By Kevin Rennie: When the Governor-General’s representative in London visited Oz in 1954, I was six years old. We stood waiting patiently in Mt Alexander Road, near Melbourne’s Essendon Airport for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We had been given little British and Australian flags to greet her passing by. The Union Jack in...
Alex Schlotzer rolls out the crystal ball and gives us a look at what's in store in Victorian politics for 2010.
By Rich Bowden: A report conducted by Wellington’s Victoria University has found young Muslims living in New Zealand have adapted well to society. The study looked at the lives of 180 Muslim youths aged 13 to 19 years and gauged their psychological and social well-being based on life satisfaction, psychological symptoms, school adjustment and...
Resident Earth philosopher Jon Moore questions the role of humanity's aspirations and democratic instincts in Part Three of his series.
In the final installment of his series, Simon Hukin bemoans the lack of focus on true culture - the Arts in Australia.
In his second of a five-part series, Jon Moore explains that it is impossible to revert to a previous "Golden Age" and warns that we must adapt to changing circumstances or perish.
By Alex Schlotzer: The Internet filtering ‘debate’ is pretty much dead in the water. However with the announcement of the mandatory ISP-level internet filter proceeding, the web’s nearly melted down. Australians on Twitter and Facebook began decrying the further erosion of our civil liberties. But just as quickly began an erroneous debate about what...
Simon Hukin, General Secretary of the W.A. Secondary Students' Association and General Manager, Quantum Butterfly Studios has penned the above open letter to Senator Conroy listing his concerns about the recently-announced mandatory Internet filter.
By Rich Bowden: More than twenty percent of the five thousand children who die every year in East Timor, do so through preventable diseases caused by poor sanitation and drinking unclean water, according to a new supplementary report released by aid agency WaterAid Australia. The NGO said despite poor or non-existent sanitation facilities being...
By Rich Bowden: Research conducted in New Zealand has exploded customers’ preconceptions that switching banks is a difficult and expensive procedure. Dr Claire Matthews, who researched the subject for her Doctor of Philosophy in Banking Studies at Massey University‘s Centre for Banking Studies, questioned nearly 3000 New Zealanders on their attitudes to switching banks...
By Alex Schlotzer Okay that might be a bit presumptuous given that polls have not yet closed but that was certainly the major news that energised Green members yesterday at the close of campaigning in the seat of Higgins. With Malcolm Mackerras predicting in his article that voters would give the nod to Greens...
By Rich Bowden: As a special presentation for our readers, theangle.org will be running live coverage of the count from the twin by-elections this weekend in Bradfield (NSW) and Higgins (Vic) using the Cover it Live software. Both seats were vacated by outgoing Liberal party luminaries Brendan Nelson and Peter Costello and are considered...
By Damian Baker: The Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project is the biggest of its type in the history of PNG. Oil was found in the southern highlands 20 years ago but gas has emerged as the energy hope for the future. An Australian company, Oil Search, is in the process of developing its gas...
By Simon Hukin: Why I Love Tax and You Should Too A carbon tax has none of the problems associated with other carbon reduction schemes. The carbon tax is an incentive for polluters to clean up their act and to encourage venture capitalists to invest in innovative clean, renewable technologies, by making them more...
Our love affair with oil, the most glorious and tragic story of our times, but how does it end? Michael Hodgkin looks at the science behind the story.
By Rich Bowden: The Church of Scientology has described a speech by independent Senator Nick Xenophon yesterday outlining allegations against the church as an “abuse of parliamentary privilege.” The Church was responding to Senator Xenophon’s statement in which he said he was “…deeply concerned about this organisation and the devastating impact it can have...
