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No to the NT intervention! Protest on June 21

On May 23-25, 160 Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists gathered in Sydney for the Unite and Fight conference, organised by the Sydney Aboriginal Rights Coalition. The conference was intended to update people on the impacts of the ongoing Northern Territory intervention and plan the campaign against it. A key priority coming out of the conference was to build large community rallies around the country on June 21, the anniversary of the announcement of the NT intervention. Natasha Moore and Wayne Collard, two Nyoongar members of the West Australian Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC-WA), attended the conference and caught up with 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Annolies Truman, also an ARC-WA member, on their return to Perth.

Qantas engineers threatened with strike breakers

Qantas engineers stopped work for four hours at Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney airports over May 29-30. The workers are campaigning for a 5% wage increase.

Of bread, circuses and clanging symbols

Joseph Bryan, Kevin Rudd聮s, politicians, tax cuts, Stolen Generation, Northern Territory, 2020 Summit

Germany: 'We have the wind of history in our sails'

After a year of stellar successes, almost 600 delegates from Germany聮s new left-wing party, Die Linke, came together for the party聮s first ever congress, held in the east German city of Cottbus on May 25 and 26.

Nepal: Republic begins, monarchy ends

On May 28, Nepal entered a new era when the constituent assembly 聴 in its first meeting since the April 10 elections 聴 overwhelming voted to abolish the 240-year-old monarchy and declare Nepal a democratic republic.

War poet's words still resonate

On April 28, an Australian soldier died in Afghanistan 聴 the fifth since the US-led invasion in October 2001. He was part of an international invasion force to impose a colonial occupation on the Afghan people.

Defend artistic freedom: The case against censorship

鈥淏eautiful鈥, 鈥渉aunting鈥, 鈥渄ark鈥, 鈥渆vocative鈥 or 鈥渞evolting鈥, 鈥渋ndecent鈥, 鈥渆xploitative鈥 and 鈥減ornographic鈥? The May 22 seizure of 20 photographs by Australian artist Bill Henson from Sydney鈥檚 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, and the subsequent NSW police investigation, have provoked an extreme response.

Change is on the agenda

Sounds like change
3CR radiothon
June 2-13

On the box

UFOs, Lies and the Cold War 鈥 Argues that from 1947 into the 1960s, US intelligence was able to use UFO paranoia strategically to cover up secret weapons testing. SBS, Friday, June 6, 2.30pm. Embassy Days 鈥 Follows the evolution of the

Petrol populism and public transport

Petrol prices have sky-rocketed in the last six months. The cost per litre now pushes $1.60, with predictions in some quarters of a $2 per litre price by the end of the year.

Sydney on the streets

Sense of a City
Regard Gallery, 372 Wilson Street, Darlington
June 13-29, 11am-5pm daily
Opening June 12, 6pm

'Enough of these fools': French students on the move

鈥淓nough of these fools who shut factories and shut schools!鈥 was a chant of thousands of student protesters as they marched on May 18 against the neoliberal education reforms in France. The conservative government of President Nicolas Sarkozy鈥檚 restructure of the education system will mean 11,200 teachers will lose their jobs as well as the cutting of 鈥渙ptional鈥 subjects, such as foreign languages and art.