Tag: America
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The Lara Jeffery Show: Just There It’s A Little Different
I couldn’t be called well-travelled. I was born in Australia. I moved from the country WA to the capital when I was three, and from the west coast to the east almost two years ago. I’ve visited every state and territory except the Northern Territory, because when one is from Perth one generally travels through…
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“It is Difficult:” Public Art and Private Minds
Earlier this year at the Americas Summit in Cartagena, Colombia, the United States formally acknowledged the existence of the drug decriminalisation debate throughout Latin America spearheaded by conservative Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina. While Hillary Clinton also garnered just as much, if not more news coverage for dancing the night away at Café Havana, historians…
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Will Obama’s Support for Same-Sex Marriage Cost Him the Black Vote
Many Democratic Party activists remember Wednesday the 9th of May as the day President Barack Obama became the first US President to officially support same-sex marriage. For the Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP), a self-described Democratic grass-roots organisation, however, it was the day Obama started taking black voters for granted and began pandering to the…
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Opinion: Gun Ownership is a Pointless Freedom
Only a few days before James Holmes gunned down 12 people at a midnight screening of Batman, Nathan Van Wilkins went on a shooting spree outside an Alabama bar, injuring 17. Only five months before these shootings, George Zimmerman shot dead Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager for little reason in Florida. Amidst these shooting, John…
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The Lara Jeffery Show: Another Shooting in America
There was another shooting in America. On Friday 20 July, shortly after midnight, in Aurora, Colorado, a single assailant entered a screening of The Dark Night Rises. According to reports he was covered in body armour, including a gas mask. He allegedly threw a canister of tear gas into the audience before opening fire with up…
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Virginia Republicans Probe Women’s Abortion Rights
“If you’ve been listening to the Republican candidates in the primary you know that each and every one of them would criminalise abortion and outlaw quite a few forms of birth control. Whether or not women can determine when and whether to have children is the single biggest element in whether we’re healthy or not,…