The Refugee Action Coalition released this statement on March 9.
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A 34 year-old Iranian refugee on Nauru was savagely attacked by two Nauruans on March 5 at about 10pm.
Two Nauruans on a motor cycle approached the man who was walking alone near the Nibok settlement. The man was struck across the top of the head by a machete, while the attacking Nauruans said, 鈥淔uck refugees鈥. The Iranian man was left with a deep head wound that required 8 stitches.
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The United States used drones and manned aircraft on March 8 to drop bombs and missiles on Somalia, ending the lives of at least 150 people.
As it virtually always does, the Obama administration the people killed were 鈥渢errorists鈥 and militants 鈥 members of the Somali group al-Shabaab 鈥 but provided no evidence.
From Hell to Hell is the powerful new work of poems and drawings by S Nagaveeran, also known as Ravi. In detention for 33 months in Nauru, Ravi turned to writing and drawing as a way of dealing with the emotion and despair that overwhelmed him.
The NSW Minerals Council chief executive Stephen Galilee is keen on new anti-protest laws in NSW. He claims to be concerned about the safety of the workers as well as the protesters 鈥渋llegally accessing mine sites鈥.
has been a little more blunt: he says the new law is aimed at better enforcing the protection of private property and 鈥渓awful business activity鈥.
Most, however, can see through the spin.
Protest against visit of Maithripala Sirisena to Britain, March 2015.
The elaborate public facade carefully constructed by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, with the hidden assistance of India and the US, is crumbling by the day. Instead, the discomforting truth is revealed that despite Sirisena becoming president last year, Sri Lanka remains a brutal regime dominated by a military mindset.
Hundreds of people marched for International Women's Day in Melbourne on March 8.
The powers-that-be in NSW have deemed that there are so many examples of 鈥渦nsafe protest activities鈥 across the state that, to make everyone safe, we need new laws that will protect 鈥渓awful business activity鈥.
Protesters will be able to be jailed for up to seven years for 鈥渋ntentionally鈥 or 鈥渞ecklessly鈥 interfering with a 鈥渕ine鈥 鈥 the definition of which has been changed to include an exploratory or test site.
My Friend Hugo, a moving film tribute to former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made by well-known Hollywood director Oliver Stone, was screened at the Resistance Centre on March 4 to mark the third anniversary of the death of the leader of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela.
The showing was organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) and the Latin American Social Forum (LASF), with the support of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Australia.
French President Francois Hollande awarded his country's most prestigious award, the Legion of Honour, to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef on March 4 for 鈥渃ountering extremism and fighting terrorism,鈥 the Saudi Press Agency reported.
This understandably received criticism from Human Rights Watch, but its grisly irony passed was largely shrugged off by the Western media and political establishment.
The HRW statement referenced Saudi Arabia's appalling human rights record. But it did not mention the year-long Saudi-led air war in neighbouring Yemen that has killed thousands.
A recent cartoon by Bill Leake in The Australian gave me a good chuckle, although not for the reason you might expect.
Captioned 鈥淭he Road to Ruin鈥 and featuring references to the recently published book of the same name, there was Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at his local newsagent picking up 鈥渉is鈥 morning papers, sighing while saying 鈥渏ust the papers thanks鈥. The papers were the Sydney Star Observer with the headline 鈥淢arriage Equality special edition鈥 and tucked in behind it was a copy of 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
Childcare workers chained themselves to the entrance doors of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Melbourne office on International Women's Day, March 8 to demand better pay for the mainly women who work in the industry.
Human rights activists protested the visit to Melbourne on March 7 of Israeli war criminal Benny Gantz.
鈥淲e will always live by our sword,鈥 declared Lieutenant General Gantz on his retirement as Chief of General Staff of the Israel Occupation Forces, 12 months ago.
Gantz led two major Israeli military offensives against Palestinians. Operation Protective Edge killed 2200 Palestinians, including 500 children and left tens of thousands of Gaza residents homeless.
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