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Refugee Watch

Australia鈥揢S deal

Is it back on? No one knows. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told the media that after that phone call with US President Donald Trump his strong approach had led many politicians in the US to call him to say the deal for the US to take up to 1250 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru will go ahead.

The situation is causing a lot of stress to refugees on Manus Island and Nauru. In response, the PNG government is requesting that additional police officers be deployed to Manus Island.

Beeliar wetlands custodian Corina Abraham to stand in WA election

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Corina Abraham is a Bilboolmirn Yorga, and recognised custodian of the Beeliar Wetlands in the lands of the Whadjuk people in the south-west of Western Australia. She is running as a Socialist Alliance WA candidate in the upcoming state election for the lower house seat of Willagee.

She spoke to Chris Jenkins about why she is standing in the election.

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Aunty Corina, what inspired you to run as a candidate?

Global inequality: Capitalism is to blame

The Occupy movement, which started as a protest against Wall Street, but ballooned across the US and internationally in 2011, adopted the slogan 鈥淲e are the 99%鈥 to symbolise the struggle for a better world against the greed of 鈥渢he 1%鈥. Some people at the time thought it was an exaggeration to talk about the 1% versus the 99%, but according to Oxfam, since 2015, that richest 1% has owned more wealth than the rest of the planet combined.

Anglesea Heathlands to be included in Great Otway National Park

The Victorian government has announced it will amend the National Parks Act in May to include the Anglesea Heathlands in the Great Otway National Park.

鈥淧rotection of Victoria鈥檚 richest and most diverse vegetation community, the Anglesea Heathlands, was long overdue,鈥 Victorian National Parks Association executive director Matt Ruchel said on February 2.

鈥淔or decades we have campaigned with the Geelong Environment Council and local group ANGAIR to have the Anglesea Heathlands protected.

WA activists demand details on national disability scheme

The dual trial of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Western Australia has ended with a bilateral agreement signed on February 1 by the WA state and federal governments.

The WA model got the guernsey and will be locally run and administered. Starting in July, it will be rolled out to an estimated 39,000 people over the next three years. WA will pay all the administration and operating costs but governance responsibilities will be shared nationally.

Terry Townsend needs your help

After a 16-month battle to survive and then recover from a major brain hemorrhage in August 2015, long-time 91自拍论坛 Weekly journalist and seller Terry Townsend is at last able to move out of the nursing home to live in his own home again.

Now he needs your help to ensure he is not confined there for the rest of his life, can reconnect with comrades and friends, and participate in political activities again.

Where does right-wing populism come from and how can we defeat it?

The seeds of the current crisis of confidence in the capitalist parties in Australia go back to the 1980s when the Bob Hawke Labor government implemented its version of Margaret Thatcher鈥檚 neoliberal economic policies. The Hawke government also managed to achieve what previous Coalition governments had failed to do 鈥 seriously weaken the union movement.

While these reforms did not immediately create right-wing populism, once the reforms started to really bite by the late 1990s, it began to develop around Pauline Hanson.

Spain: Podemos at the crossroads

The left-wing anti-austerity party Podemos is planning to hold its second country-wide citizens鈥 assembly (Vistalegre II) on February 11th-12th to decide the political direction, organisational structure and its electoral strategy for the next regional and general elections.

Three ingredients for a successful environmental campaign

A battle is raging over a known as Roe 8.

Record-busting heat as climate warming goes extreme

Last year was by far the hottest year in the observation record, with the global average surface temperature 1.24掳 Celcuis warmer than the late nineteenth century, according to . This broke the record set the previous year of 1.12掳C, which in turn broke the previous mark set in 2014 of 1.01掳C.

Although the El Nino conditions of 2015鈥16 had some influence 鈥 perhaps 0.2掳C 鈥 it is clear that the warming trend is 1掳C or more.

Climate change plays havoc with Pacific weather

Global warming has already increased the risk of major disruptions to Pacific rainfall, according to our . The risk will continue to rise over coming decades, even if global warming during the 21st century is restricted to 2鈩僥lcius.

From artisanal to working-class 鈥 Oro shows violent mining struggles on Filipino island

Oro
Written & directed by Alvin Yapan
Feliz Film Productions, 2016

Oro, the Filipino film written and directed by Alvin Yapan released in December, is based on the 2014 murder of four small-scale miners in Sitio, Lahuy.

For 20 years, Elmer (Joem Bascon) and his men have freely mined in the tiny but gold-rich island of Lahuy Island in the town of Caramoan in Bicol.