Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance.
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As the Nobel Committee announced聽on October 6 in Oslo that聽聽the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons had won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time,聽US President Donald Trump is expected to 鈥渄ecertify鈥 the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal next week. spoke聽with Tim Wright, the Asia-Pacific director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The full transcript follows the video.
Thousands of people have come out in dozens of locations around Australia to oppose Adani's mega coalmine.
Socialist Alliance candidates for Brownbill Ward in the Geelong Council election, Sue Bull and Sarah Hathway, who were among the first women candidates to nominate, have released their preferences, with the top seven positions going to progressive female candidates.
The several hundred men on Manus Island, still detained after more than four years, scattered red petals over pictures of Rajeev Rajendran on the evening of October 2.
So declared George Orwell鈥檚 allegorical Joseph Stalin, Napoleon the Berkshire Boar, in his 1945 classic Animal Farm. In Australia, we鈥檝e declared war on some inequalities, like those contained in the Marriage Act, while we acquiesce to, tolerate, ignore or accept many others. Just like the animals on Orwell鈥檚 Manor Farm, in contemporary Australia, it seems all inequalities are equal but some are more equal than others.
The world media鈥檚 attention has focused on the very real humanitarian crisis gripping hurricane-ravaged nations in the Caribbean and regions of the United States, but the聽鈥渨orld鈥檚 worst humanitarian catastrophe鈥 (in the words of The New York Times in August) is in Yemen.
The United States has been criticised for voting against a United Nations resolution that sought to eliminate the death penalty for the LGBTIQ community. The US was among 13 nations including Saudi Arabia and Iraq to vote down the resolution.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) warned that the Queensland government鈥檚 September 29 proposal to significantly expand the Port of Townsville, will further damage the ailing Great Barrier Reef.
Workers at the Streets ice-cream factory in Minto are planning a boycott of Streets products 鈥 including the iconic Paddle Pop 鈥 if Unilever continues its efforts in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to end their enterprise agreement.
In echoes of the case of Ms Dhu, a Noongar mother-of-five called police for help during a family violence incident, but they instead ran a background check on her. They found an outstanding warrant for $3900 in unpaid fines, relating to an unregistered dog in 2012. She was jailed for 14 days in lieu of payment.
The National Liberation Army (ELN) has announced a temporary and bilateral ceasefire with the Colombian government.
The group said the ceasefire, agreed to in September during peace talks in Quito, Ecuador, will be implemented from October 1 to January 9, 2018.
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