The battle over the controversial $18 billion WestConnex tollway project through the inner-western suburbs is heating up.
The Sydney Motorway Corporation has been granted conditional approval by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment to commence work in Sydney Park, meaning dozens of trees are set for removal.
Arguably, the University of Sydney鈥檚 decision to give former Prime Minister John Howard an honorary doctorate on September 30 has backfired badly.聽
Academics and students spoke eloquently against the award before and during the ceremony, prompting some students who had just been given their degree to join in.
The university had cited Howard鈥檚 鈥渨orld-leading gun law reform, leadership in East Timor and contribution to Australia鈥檚 economic reform鈥 as reasons for the award. While many would question these, the elephant in the room was Iraq.
Three hundred workers assembled at the entry of the Geelong oil refinery on October 7 for a community protest against unsafe conditions at the refinery.
The 60-year-old refinery, previously operated by Shell, was bought by Viva Energy Australia in August 2014, and it immediately pledged $150 million for maintenance work.
On October 6 NSW Supreme Court Judge Natalie Adams reserved her decision on Kurdish journalist Renas Lelikan鈥檚 bail appeal until 14 October. Lelikan, who is charged with membership of the Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party (PKK), has been remanded in custody since July 20.
Originally held in Sydney鈥檚 Silverwater Prison, he was transferred to isolation in the Goulburn 鈥淪upermax鈥 jail following death threats against him by ISIS sympathisers.
On October 6, students took part in banner drops, live artwork and marches at Sydney University's Camperdown campus to save the Sydney College of the Arts.
New reports of police murdering Black people seem to occur daily. Three recent police killings that have sparked huge protests took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Charlotte, North Carolina; and El Cajon, California.
The Charlotte murder and demonstrations have received the most coverage. Before he was shot dead on September 20, Keith Scott, a 43-year-old African American, was sitting in his car waiting for his child to come home from school.
Three hundred workers assembled at the entry of the Geelong oil refinery on October 7 to start a community protest against unsafe conditions at the refinery.
The 60-year-old refinery, previously operated by Shell has been operated by Viva Energy Australia since August 2014, with $150 million immediate pledges for maintenance work.
Poland鈥檚 ruling far-right Law and Justice party has reversed its support for a draconian abortion ban after women across the country went on strike to protest the proposed law.
Jaros艂aw Gowin, the minister of science and higher education, said that large protests and strikes on October 3 had 鈥渃aused us to think and taught us humility,鈥 The Guardian reported.
Wearing black as a symbol of mourning for lost reproductive rights, tens of thousands of women in Poland and beyond took to the streets on October 3 to protest a聽.
Peace supporters react to the plebiscite result.
The "No" vote was won by a half of a percentage point in a聽Colombian plebiscite on October 2 on a peace deal between the government and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which aims to end more than five decades of civil war.
Ecuador鈥檚 ruling party, the leftist Pais Alliance of President Rafael Correa, has elected disability rights activist Lenin Moreno to be its聽next candidate for president聽during its October 1聽congress, TeleSUR English said. Presidential elections are scheduled for February 19 next year.
Staff and Students at the University of Sydney on 30 September held a protest against fromer prime minister and war criminal John Howard on campus as the university awarded him an honorary doctorate. Aborigianal rights, refugee rights and the invasion of Iraq were among the issues raised.