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1. Women’s struggles can make sexism history

   stopped rejoicing, remembering the war Gillard has waged on women in government, not least the vicious ... children aged over eight years, parents who are mostly women, on the tiny Newstart allowance is ... caused thousands of women in Australia to call bullshit on being told they cannot walk alone at night, or ...

2. From Gamergate to Clementine Ford: Deep roots of online abuse of women show New Matilda piece's wrong approach

   other women feeling the same. Yet Gamergate's war on women has opened the void of perpetually gross ... The thing is, women on the Internet have been struggling with various ways to challenge their sexist ... by white women and then men of colour), with all the added racist stereotypes heaped on top of the ...

3. Refugees are Abbott's war, but human displacement is a global emergency

   Refugees & migrants Imperialism & war Anti-racism Democracy Jay Fletcher Asylum seekers ... refugees and asylum seekers are treated like the enemy in a war: the target of a highly resourced, ... them, forced deportations and the violent suppression of those who protest. World Refugee Day on June 20 ...

4. Live blog: Refugee activists converge on WA detention centre

   protest ends in dance-off 1:30pm, Sun April 28 Photos taken of refugee rights activists on the Kalgoorlie ... pipeline. refugee-rights-activists-on-kalgoorlie-pipeline.jpg Refugee rights activists on the Kalgoorlie ... released and it seems at least one will face charges. All three have move-on notices and have to leave the ...

5. Report slams Tamil visa freeze

   claims was based on a lie. The International Crisis Group (ICG) released War Crimes in Sri Lanka on May ... 17, a report into the Sri Lankan Army’s assault on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the entire ... extensive evidence that the Sri Lankan military committed war crimes, and massacred tens of thousands of ...

6. Corporate media smears WikiLeaks

   ���������Բ���’s War on Secrecy. The book’s co-author David Leigh is a former confidant of Assange and has written ... evidence of the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s requests for detailed biographic data on other ... mainstream media outlets have profited greatly from reporting on WikiLeaks’ scoops. But this hasn’t stopped ...

7. Tamil refugees face deportation

   The World Today on March 12. Tamils have been escaping Sri Lanka since the government waged ... a full-scale war against the Tamil struggle for independence, which resulted in the massacre of 30,000 people. ... When the bloody war ended in May, more than 300,000 Tamils were locked in government-run concentration ...

8. Afghans to be sent back to danger

   signed the deal with a minister of the corrupt Karzai regime on January 17. Afghan Minister for Refugees ... and Repatriation Dr Jamaher Anwary was in Sydney to take part in talks on “people smuggling”. The ... illegitimate and Afghanistan was still a war zone. The next day, more than 300 Afghan refugees in Curtin ...

9. Tamils flee genocide — refugees should be welcomed!

   has a "tough line" on border control and remains preoccupied with a farcical war on ... "There are women and children on board here. And we are not animals, we are people, but we are being ... Jay Fletcher On October 15, almost 260 Tamil refugees were stranded at an Indonesian port in west ...

10. No need for refugee deaths at sea

    which led to the probable deaths of three and two people respectively, who set out to sea on makeshift ... north of Christmas Island on June 5, but failed to arrive at the island and a search was not launched ... Australian Maritime Safety Authority by Customs on Friday night — almost 12 hours after debris was reportedly ...

11. Refugee policy risks more lives

    island in Indonesia last week. The boat was believed to have women and children on board and had vanished ... Rintoul, on July 7. The AFP sent a text message to alert Indonesian authorities, who launched a search for ... the July 10 Australian. Foreign affairs minister Stephen Smith told Lateline on July 8 the boat had ...

12. Solidarity with refugees can beat Abbott’s plans

    SBS’s Dateline revealed about Nauru's detention centre workers on March 4. Women who have suffered ... Refugees & migrants Jay Fletcher The federal Coalition government is set on a path of ... this is the large-scale selling out of action on climate change along with important natural ...

13. Challenging racism in Australia

    Anti-racism Indigenous Jay Fletcher A new magazine focused on Aboriginal rights, Tracker, was ... launched in Sydney by the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) on April 4. The monthly ... that have UN status, so we’re always over in the UN, New York or Geneva, advocating on issues much ...

14. Pope protest celebrates civil liberties win

    the pope's reactionary policies took place on July 19 against the backdrop of an important civil ... premier John Watkins on June 28, the last sitting day of parliament before WYD and less than one week ... challenge to the government's regulations. In ruling on that challenge, the Federal Court interpreted ...

15. Rudd's policy is racist — refugees are not illegal

    "safety" of the people on board, including five children and five women, the Australian government put ... coast of Sumatra. An Australian customs ship rescued the 78 asylum seekers from their stricken vessel on ... October 18. But the order from the Australian government was to keep them away from the mainland. On ...

16. Drowning tragedy provokes fresh refugee-bashing

    refugees sank off the coast of Java, Indonesia, on November 1. The boat capsized after taking on water for ... about two hours at about 5am local time, the Herald Sun said. Eight people, including two women and four ... government put pressure on the Coalition to agree to legislation stripping human rights and protections from ...

17. Racism kills — Rudd and Abbott’s anti-refugee hysteria

    other men, women and children aboard a wooden fishing boat that had travelled from Sri Lanka and spent ... water for at least eight days before the refugees were finally rescued on May 9. But the Labor federal ... was “being tracked” by Australian customs when it sent out a distress signal on April 30. No rescue ...

18. History of Indigenous resistance

    some Aboriginal people have grown worse. On January 26, 2008, with the newly elected Labor ... continuing culture in human history." Those comments, made on a date that marks the arrival in 1788 of ... issues in the language of "history wars" in which any acknowledgement of past wrongs was ...