Anti-war and peace networks are organising a national protest outside federal MPs’ offices, demanding an end to AUKUS and the billions being wasted on a new arms race. Pip Hinman reports.
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Stop Wapenhandel (Stop the Arms Trade) and The Transnational Institute (TNI) co-produced an important dossier in November that details the enormous funds the West is spending on a new arms race, reports Pip Hinman.
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Raymond “Bubbly” Weatherall, who has been fighting the oil and gas giant for many years, said the fight for culture, land and water was far from over. Pip Hinman reports.
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Grassroots movements have gotten us to the point where governments can no longer deny climate change is happening. Pip Hinman argues that those movements have to grow to avoid being sucked into false solutions.
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Calls are growing louder for charges to be dropped against ADF whistleblower David McBride, who will face a criminal court next year, reports Pip Hinman.
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Danish multinational tugboat company Svitzer has threatened to lock out workers at 17 Australian ports, rather than negotiate an enterprise agreement with the Maritime Union of Australia. Pip Hinman reports.
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“Australia is back as a constructive, positive and willing climate collaborator,” climate change minister Chris Bowen told the United Nations Climate Change Conference. But how true is this, asks Pip Hinman.
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Australia lacks ambition and needs to do more in the global effort to stay below 1.5°C, the United Nations said on the eve of its climate summit in Egypt, reports Pip Hinman.
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First Nations cultural heritage is under threat from multinational mining company Glencore’s coal mine expansion at the site of one of the Frontier Wars at Glendell, reports Pip Hinman.
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Origin Energy’s decision to pull out of exploring and fracking at three sites is testament to the effectiveness of a grassroots campaign led by Traditional Owners. Pip Hinman reports.
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Residents told the Inner West Council it lack of consultation around its rezoning strategy was a serious misjudgement. Pip Hinman reports.
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Australian scientists, led by Tim Flannery, want federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to heed the science and ensure all assessments of new gas and coal projects are evidence-based. Pip Hinman reports.
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A United Nations nuclear weapons ban meeting that concluded at the end of June in Vienna, mapped out a plan for participating states to “free the world” of nuclear weapons, reports Pip Hinman.
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Australians for War Powers Reform have called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to follow through on Labor’s promise to hold an inquiry into war powers reform. Pip Hinman reports.
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The suspension of the national electricity market points to the need to learn from the past. The whole idea of having an energy market for a commodity that everyone needs is a scam, argues Pip Hinman.
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Pip Hinman spoke to members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) on the strike picket line at the University of Sydney.
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A ferocious fire in a neglected boarding house in inner city Newtown has renewed calls for tenants’ rights and greater government regulation of these often neglected places.
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For a fourth time a Senate committee investigating contentious oil and gas exploration in the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory has had to ask for an extension, largely because of corporate favours. Pip Hinman reports.
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Since becoming the minister for offence, Peter Dutton has used every opportunity to spruik Australia’s “need” to prepare for war against China. ANZAC Day provided another opening for the hawk. Pip Hinman reports.
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Anti-war and peace activists are planning to picket a naval arms bazaar, Indo Pacific Expo, being organised in Sydney. Pip Hinman reports.
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Thirteen-year-old Lismore school student Ella O’Dwyer-Oshlack gave a powerful speech criticising the PM for climate denialism at the School Strike 4 Climate. Pip Hinman reports.
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The Tamil Refugee Council held a speak-out to mark Tamil Genocide Day before a refugee rights rally on the UN declared day for the elimination of racial discrimination. Pip Hinman reports.
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Paula Sanchez told an International Women’s Day function, hosted by the Sydney’s Kurdish community, that IWD was for women and men “because equality is something we all have to fight for”. Pip Hinman reports.
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Andrew Chuter, active for public transport and public housing campaigns, will run for the seat of Sydney for the Socialist Alliance. Jim McIlroy reports.
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When former and current ASIO chiefs feel impelled to contradict Peter Dutton’s war mongering, you know the wannabe Australian general has overstepped the mark. Pip Hinman argues that a khaki election campaign could swing it for the Coalition.
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