About 300 people from the neo-Nazi United Patriots Front (UPF) marched in Bendigo on February 27 to launch their new political party, Fortitude. It was the final leg of the UPF鈥檚 tour of the east coast, following gatherings of less than 50 people in Orange and Toowoomba.
It was met by about 100 anti-racist protestors organised by the Bendigo Action Collective, who held a 鈥淢arch Against Fascism and Bigotry鈥.
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Hundreds of pro-refugee protesters rallied in Melbourne on February 27, calling on political leaders to let refugees stay and close the prison camps.
The action was called in response to a visit by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition leader Bill Shorten to the Lonsdale St Greek Festival. People chanted 鈥淭urnbull, Shorten. Blood on your hands鈥 and 鈥淟et them stay" as they arrived on the stage.
The action was called by Refugee Action Collective and First Nations Liberation.
A meeting of 500 First Nations representatives voted on February 3 to reject Constitutional recognition and to begin talks on self-determination and a treaty with the Victorian government.
The proposed treaty would be a legal document covering Aboriginal affairs and services and addressing past injustices. It would be the first such agreement in Australia and follows similar arrangements with First Peoples in Canada, the US and New Zealand.
Dja Dja Warrung elder Gary Murray said the national debate around Constitutional recognition was just "a distraction".
Cizre, March 2. Photo: Hatice Kamer/BBC.
The following report for BBC Turkish by Hatice Kamer in Cizre was translated for 91自拍论坛 Weekly by I Zekeriya Ayman.
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What do politicians do after leaving parliament to earn a few more dollars? They go and work for gas and coal companies.
鈥 Former Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson became chair of Eastern Star Gas 鈥 the company behind the Narrabri Gas Project now owned by Santos 鈥 about 2 years after leaving politics.
鈥 Former National's leader and Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile became a director and then chair of Whitehaven coal.
Why is the government so keen to reform Senate voting with the threat of a double dissolution election hanging in the air?
The government and the Greens are supporting legislation to enact some recommendations of a parliamentary committee into the 2013 election while Labor and most small parties and independents are opposing them.
South-west Victorian farmers have used sheep to spell out their opposition to unconventional gas mining in the region. organised for 2000 sheep to run into a paddock and spell out 鈥淏AN GAS鈥, as a reminder to the Victorian government that they do not want gas mining on their prime agricultural land. It took two weeks to train the sheep to follow the grain trail that spelled out the message.
Dozens of people protested in Bendigo on February 26 for the right to breast feed in public. A Bendigo mother had earlier been after someone complained to a plaza employee.
Kur艧unlu mosque in Amed. Damage is from bombardment by the Turkish military.
The following statement was released by Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Figen Y眉ksekda臒 and Selahattin Demirta艧 on March 1.
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Across 58 separate curfews imposed in several neighbourhoods of the 21 districts of 7 Kurdish provinces, 290 citizens have so far lost their lives.
Protestors knock down police barricade in Amed, March 2. Photo: Kurdish Question.
Thousands of people marched to the Sur district of Kurdish city of Amed (Diyarbakir in Turkish) in Turkey's south-east Sur district from all corners of the city on March 2 to break the three-month siege and curfew by Turkish state forces.
Far right Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic establishment favourite Hillary Clinton were the biggest winners from the "Super Tuesday" caucuses on March 1, but socialist candidate Bernie Sanders won some key states to stay in the race.
Voters took part in the caucuses in 11 states, on a day when a quarter of all delegates, who will vote on who will be the candidate for each party in November presidential race, were decided.
French riot police fired tear gas as they began demolishing the Calais 鈥淛ungle鈥 refugee camp on February 29, .
Tear gas was reportedly used in response to stone-throwers at the shanty town, which is home to about 4000 people. Lines of police vans gathered on the perimeter of the camp's southern section and people were prevented from entering the site.
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