On Wednesday 15 July, Rev Dr Gordon Moyes will be hosting a Public Forum on “A Decade of Persecution of Falun Gong 1999 to 2009”. The theme of the public forum is to address how the impact of China’s oppression affects Australia, China and the world.
A number of major international aid agencies have expressed their frustration at the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel. There are lamentable consequences for the population there, they claim. Over the past two years there has been less and less employment available, with resulting increased poverty and hardship for the community of 1.5 million. And wherever there is deprivation the children and the elderly are the most vulnerable.
By opening the National Parks for recreational hunting, allowing hunting of native species, and expanding the list of game species, all of these actions would be a real step backwards for the people, birds and animals of NSW.
In March 2008 New South Wales government voted to allow the five-year ban on the growing of Genetically Modified (GM) crops to lapse, much to the chagrin of many concerned farmers and consumers across the state.
On Thursday 4th June over 150 farmers and concerned citizens from Gloucester and Gunnedah (The Liverpool Plains) descended on New South Wales Parliament in a peaceful demonstration aimed at supporting the Mining Amendment (Safeguarding Agricultural Land and Water) Bill.
The Rees Government will be forced to release all departmental documentation relating to asbestos in Wallaga Lake following a successful call for papers moved by NSW Liberals Shadow Minister for the Environment Catherine Cusack and supported by the Shooters, the Greens and Independent Member the Hon. Gordon Moyes in the New South Wales Legislative Council.
On Tuesday 9th June, Tony Blair and the Faith Foundation launched a global education program with the aim of fostering understanding between the world’s major religions.
Watching your own flesh and blood retreat from reality to a world that seems unbearable is a pressure that no human being should have to bear. Pamela Burfield-Mills is a mother who had to do just that. She has agreed to share her story.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the term used for heart, stroke and blood vessel diseases. It is the leading cause of death in Australia, accounting for about 35% of all deaths in Australia every year. It seems that most Australian women are not aware that heart disease is the number 1 killer of other women like themselves.
May 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the Great Hunger, a cycle of famine in Ireland caused by the potato blight
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