Several hundred people attended climate organisation Rising Tide’s Action Camp at the Addison Road Community Centre. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Mariane Paviasen Jensen, a Greenland MP for the Inuit Ataqatigiit party and prominent environmentalist, has described a 60 Minutes Australia program as a “propaganda broadcast” for Australian mining company ETM, reports Peter Boyle.
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The recent discovery of a mass grave in Sri Lanka has ignited a wave of protests by Tamils demanding an investigation, accompanied by calls for the government to fulfil its pledge to improve the treatment of Tamils. Chris Slee reports.
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Lidia Thorpe and Alex Bainbridge discuss the Red Lines package against genocide and the campaign against Black deaths in custody in the latest episode of the 91̳ Show.
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Members of the Druze community, in particular those of Syrian and Lebanese background, organised a “Stand with Sweida” rally on the steps of Victorian Parliament. Zane Alcorn reports.
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A snap protest opposed Victorian Labor’s bail “reform” laws and called on it to implement an alternative series of reforms, which include the removal of the presumption against bail and for remand to be a last resort. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Organisers are pleased to announce that Ecosocialism 2025 — with the theme “Ecosocialism not Barbarism” — will for the first time feature in-person speakers from the United States and Latin America. Fred Fuentes reports.
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Nilüfer Koç, the foreign affairs spokesperson of the Kurdistan National Congress, addressed a conference on the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and its consequences for the Kurdish people. Peter Boyle reports.
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Aboriginal organisations and independent Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe are calling on the federal government to suspend federal funds for policing and prisons in the Northern Territory until the Country Liberal Party government reduces the incarceration of First Peoples and children. Kerry Smith reports.
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Disrupt Burrup Hub activist Petrina Harley faced court for blocking access to Woodside’s industrial plant in Western Australia’s Burrup Hub peninsula last year. Paula Green reports the court rejected her “climate emergency defence”.
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Thousands of Palestine solidarity activists converged on Parliament House to demand that the Anthony Albanese government sanction Israel for its genocide in Gaza. Jacob Andrewartha and Rachel Evans report.
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Menaha Kandasamy, general secretary of the Ceylon Workers Red Flag Union says tea and rubber plantation workers face new challenges in Sri Lanka. Chris Slee reports.