In an interview with 91自拍论坛 Weekly, one of the Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who have been stranded on a boat at the Indonesian port of Merak since October 11, Sanjeev 鈥淎lex鈥 Kuhendrarajah, said conditions on the boat are dire.
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A speak-out against the Labor-Liberal dirty deal on the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was held in Perth on November 26. The action was organised by the Coalition for a Safe Climate.
On November 26, Paddy "Joe" Hill and Gerry Conlon told a transfixed audience their experience of unjust imprisonment. The event, at the Perth Irish Club, was part of a tour profiling the British Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (MOJO).
Five years ago, Mulrunji Doomadgee was arrested by senior sergeant Chris Hurley for 鈥渄isorderly conduct鈥 and taken to a police cell on Palm Island, near Townsville. Within an hour, the Aboriginal man was dead.
The Sydney-based Refugee Action Coalition's Ian Rintoul has sent a letter to the International Organisation of Migration in Indonesia asking that it urgently intervene to provide medical care to the asylum seekers on the boat at Merak.
A statement of support for refugees has received wide support from left parties and unions in the Asia-Pacific region.
CANBERRA 鈥 On November 23, 130 climate change activists were arrested as they blockaded the front doors of Parliament House.
Socialist Alliance members Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes live in Caracas, where they maintain 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Venezuela bureau.
You could be forgiven for missing the good news this month.
Teacher unions have reaffirmed their opposition to the publication of school league tables, which rank schools by the results of their students in the same way that league tables rank football teams after each round of competition.
SYDNEY 鈥 Fifty people gathered outside federal government offices on November 26 to protest the Northern Territory intervention against Aboriginal communities.
FOOTSCRAY 鈥 On November 21, more than 200 inner-west Melbourne residents rallied against state government plans to build a tunnel, freeway and truck route through residential areas.
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