Search

Enter terms

Search results

1. Pat O’Shane eyes off Canberra: ‘I’m going to be a bulldozer’

   championing of First Nations rights, O’Shane is keen to reform the criminal justice system; she’s specifically ... the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW). Paul Gregoire from Sydney Criminal Lawyers  spoke with ... we treat them like animals, they will behave like animals. The decision by that judge is now laying ...

2. In Spain, the far-right enters Andalusian parliament as left voters abstain

   economic model to animal rights and international solidarity. The program was developed through a lengthy ... was defeated after 40 years in power. Defeat came at the hands of a fractured yet radicalising right ... a minority PSOE government in Madrid in June. That came after the right-wing People’s Party (PP) was defeated ...

3. Coming of age in Enver Hoxha's Albania

   and prejudice, healthy doubt and dogmatic superstition. "We were taught to believe that the right ... individuals must always come to an end, like the lives of insects, birds and other animals. To think that ...

4. United States: Popular rage blazes in New Mexico against failed government fire management

   Aridness. Additionally, long-standing grievances over land ownership and water use rights date back to the ... Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes and many remain displaced. Livestock and wild animals ...

5. 10 new albums that hit back at racists

   for our fellow animals. New albums supporting animal rights include Escalate's The Damage Is ... don't have the right to say it's my country. Before they give in they would rather fuss and fight ... Buffalo," said West. "The Democratic Party was not even able to act decisively to uphold voting rights ...

6. Novocastrian socialist runs for NSW Senate

   be standing on the Senate, with the Socialist Alliance’s two other candidates, human rights activist ... and nurse educator, Paula Sanchez, and NDIS worker and pioneer marriage rights campaigner, Rachel ... be on the Ballot card, representing the Animal Justice Party. While pre-polling has opened for locals ...

7. As the far right grows, its mask comes off

   Far right Phil Hearse Climate change Abortion Women's rights far right The brutal face of ... hard right and fascist reaction has been on vivid display on the issues of women’s rights and the ... facto climate change denial is also a position of the right-wing Liberal-National Coalition in ...

8. Revolution in the hen house?

   Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights & Social Justice By Ted Benton Verso, 1993. 246 pp., ... I reckon that us Homo sapiens need to stick together. Indeed, to claim that animal rights are on a par with ... such "rights" were discovered. For some, to project rights onto animals is seen to enrich our ...

9. United States: Amazon workers fight for a union, dignity

   November to hold the vote and won the right to hold a seven-week postal ballot that ends on March 29. ... Senator Bernie Sanders told the Post: “What you are seeing right now in Bessemer is an example of the ... BLM and civil rights campaigns One Amazon worker, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Verge that ...

10. Gomeroi people reject Santos’ gas plans

    their Native Title rights for the Narrabri coal seam gas project. A similar protest was held in ... the Native Title Tribunal last May seeking approval to extinguish Gomeroi rights. The matter was ... destructive the federal government’s “gas-fired recovery” policy is on First Nations rights. Gomeroi ...

11. Israel terrorises Ramadan worshippers at al-Aqsa mosque

    Center for Human Rights (PCHR), and more than 400 were arrested. The rights group said that the violence ... opposite was the case. Francesca Albanese, the newly appointed UN special rapporteur on human rights in the ... replacement with a Jewish temple offered a cash prize for any attempted animal sacrifices at the al-Aqsa ...

12. Vale Tom McDonald, 1927–2022

    rights, social justice and economic equality. “Tom inspired generations of unionists in leading his own ... of Tom and Audrey McDonald. Steve Frenkel’s review described it as “a clear, animated and absorbing ...

13. Harness racing to ban use of whips

    Kerry Smith Horse, harness and jumps racing whips Animal agriculture, justice and welfare Harness ... on whips. HRA chairman Geoff Want said the decision was taken for animal welfare reasons. "There ... animals," he said. Want said he believed some in the industry would resist change but "people are going ...

14. NSW Coalition and Labor ram through anti-protest laws

    right-wing media, NSW Minister for Metropolitan Roads Natalie Ward on March 24 amended a pre-existing law ... introduced a bill that further restricted the right to protest: it made the blocking of a “major road” or ... day it was made visible, human rights groups and unions were prevented from scrutinising it. Despite ...

15. Aboriginal Tent Embassy marks the illegal 1788 occupation

    ships and their cargoes of hapless humans deemed little better than animals. Behind that journey was ... possessors of the several regions they inhabit … No European Nation has the right to occupy any part of their ... Aboriginal Legal Centre in Redfern. Highly intelligent and committed to the struggle for land rights, equity ...

16. Joining the dots: Pandemics and political economy

    illness have over the past 50 years handed over intellectual property (IP) rights to medicines to ... of public health into a business and in doing so grant big pharma the right to determine who lives ... from the get-go that massive government investment in COVID vaccines could not undermine IP rights ...

17. New South Wales bans greyhound racing

    Kathy Fairfax Animal agriculture, justice and welfare Greyhound racing ban New South Wales has ... by a special commission into the "widespread and systemic mistreatment of animals" in the ... industry. The special commission found overwhelming evidence of animal cruelty. Baird said the inquiry found ...

18. Nup to the Melbourne Cup

    racing business. But animal rights activists it seen as violence, a very public abuse of an animal that ... past, cock fighting and dog fighting were regarded as legitimate sports. Now they are rightly seen as ... to the animals and are appalled by it. Sadly, other so called “sports” using animals to entertain ...

19. Friends of the Earth buzzing about victory for bees and freedom of speech

    Economy Environment Animal agriculture, justice and welfare Friends of the Earth released this ... (BUND) has a right to voice concerns over potential harm to bees from a neonicotinoid pesticide, ...

20. Amid catastrophic floods politicians blame ‘Mother nature’

    Title rights from the dissenting Traditional Owners, the Wangan and Jagalingou people. She granted Adani ... More heatwaves, droughts and floods are already exceeding plants’ and animals’ tolerance thresholds, ...

21. Call to end use of traps

    Call to end use of traps SYDNEY — Animal rights activists demonstrated outside Parliament House on ... theoretically banned under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, but a loophole under the Pastures ... A spokesperson for Save Animals From Exploitation, Scott Cardimatis, said that he had recently collected ...

22. NSW government fails to privatise floodwaters a third time

    communities and the environment downstream would get their share. Labor, Greens, Justin Field and the Animal ... at this — to work with communities right across the basin, irrigators in the south, floodplain ...

23. Blinkered thinking on medical research

    the greed and selfishness of our species is a major imperative. The right of humans to exploit the ... environment and other animals is increasingly being questioned. Most of us are hidebound by established ... own widely held beliefs, seldom questioned, is that laboratory animals are "necessary" for ...

24. India: Human rights activists jailed for commemorating 2009 massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka

    �ղ�����������ܳ����� rights activists, including Thirumurugan Gandhi, Daison Jose, Ilamaran and Arun.  Thirumurugan is ... an internationally respected human rights activists and has strongly championed the democratic ... international forums. He has appeared before the Geneva human rights sessions of the United Nations for the past ...

25. New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern’s Third Way politics

    right – particularly Māori, leftists, Muslims, animal rights groups and environmentalists. In the wake ... right Housing Indigenous Welfare Ani White Ihumatao Christchurch terror attack Aotearoa New Zealand ... decline with the rise of right-wing populism. Although Third Way politics may be preferable to Trumpism, ...

Pages