Alyawarr elder Richard Downs spoke at the Prescribed Area People鈥檚 Alliance (PAPA) meeting in Alice Springs on February 12. Downs is a leader of the walkoff protest against the NT intervention at Ampilatwatja.
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When the anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson was asked if she was a xenophobe in a 1996 interview on Sixty Minutes, she famously responded: 鈥減lease explain鈥. Now, with the news that she intends to become an immigrant herself, it seems she doesn鈥檛 understand the word 鈥渉ypocrite鈥 either.
Resistance activist Melanie Barnes is standing as a candidate in the upcoming Tasmanian state elections for the Socialist Alliance. She isn鈥檛 running to improve her career prospects or income, but because she wants to get an important message out.
MELBOURNE 鈥 On February 16 a group of peace activists held a vigil outside the Melbourne office of federal finance minister Lindsay Tanner. The protest was the first in a series of monthly vigils aimed at drawing attention to the worsening situation in Afghanistan and to call for the Australian government to bring the troops home.
91自拍论坛 Weekly spoke to national convener Peter Boyle about the political dynamics of the coming federal election and asked him what sort of campaign the Alliance was intending to run.
The internet protest group Anonymous launched a cyber-attack to protest the Australian government's proposed 鈥渃lean-feed鈥 internet filter on February 10. A number of government websites temporarily became host to pornographic images.
MELBOURNE 鈥 Eighty people rallied on the morning of February 14 to commemorate the 2004 death of Redfern teenager TJ Hickey and demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody. The crowd observed a minute's silence in memory of TJ, who was killed
while being chased by police. It also expressed its support for TJ's mother, Gail Hickey, who has lodged a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
Newcastle Resistance branch has entered a 鈥渟ign war鈥 against federal Labor MP Sharon Grierson.
Elaine Peckham is a Central Arrernte woman who lives on homelands in the West MacDonnell Ranges. She spoke at the Prescribed Area People鈥檚 Alliance meeting in Alice Springs on February 12. The speech below is abridged from text prepared by the Intervention Rollback Action Group .
SYDNEY 鈥 Six Gaza Freedom March activists presented a moving account of their experiences of trying to get into Gaza late last year at a Stop the War Coalition public meeting on February 15.
The Sydney Morning Herald-sponsored 鈥淚ndependent Public Inquiry鈥 into Sydney鈥檚 public transport released its preliminary report on February 13. The report outlined a 30-year strategy to massively improve Sydney鈥檚 public transport infrastructure.
The picket line outside Xstrata Coal鈥檚 Tahmoor colliery is continuing. It marks a continuation of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union鈥檚 (CFMEU) 17-month struggle to negotiate an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) with Xstrata.
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