Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist round up the latest news from Australia and around the world in this new podcast.
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Anti-war protests outside MPs’ offices demanded that AUKUS be scrapped and the $170 billion allocated to nuclear-powered submarines be instead spent on human need, reports Pip Hinman.
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Livestream of the forum on Treaty, Sovereignty and First Nations justice with Lidia Thorpe, Uncle Gary Murray and Sue Bolton.
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Neo-Nazi extremist Desmond Liddington has been sentenced for his part in an attack on the home of anti-racists. Kerry Smith reports.
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The practice of stealing Aboriginal children from their families has continued since Kevin Rudd’s apology and it needs to stop, a Sorry Day protest was told. Rachel Evans reports.
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The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is facing the terrible prospect of having to close its doors in six weeks due to funding shortages caused by cost-of-living pressures impacting on donors. Sue Bolton reports.
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Djab Wurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara Senator Lidia Thorpe should be congratulated for putting a Treaty with First Nations people on the political agenda. Progressives need to support that campaign, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Sue Bolton.
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There is a disconnect of time scales between the relatively short-lived exploitative mining and Traditional Owners’ ancient connection to Country. Susan Norrie writes about her and artist colleagues’ approach to a commission.
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The Australian Tamil community and supporters rallied outside the Sri Lankan High Commission on the 75th anniversary of Tamil Oppression Day. Stanley Blair reports.
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The 20th anniversary of the then largest protest in world history is on February 15. As time passes, memories fade. But the 2003 protest against the Iraq war was huge and worth remembering.
Looking back on, three things stand out.
The scale
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British comedian Kate Smurthwaite discusses the power of comedy as a force for good, with Alex Bainbridge.
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Canadian police need to come clean about their own use of deadly force, writes Jeff Shantz.
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Reza Berati’s death has become a symbol of the brutality and impunity of the offshore imprisonment of asylum seekers and refugees, argues Janet Parker, on the ninth anniversary of his brutal death on Manus Island.
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First Nations people and organisations have continued to propose solutions and call for genuine consultation between affected communities at all levels of government. But, as Jacob Andrewartha reports, they are being sidelined.
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About 100 refugees and supporters gathered outside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electoral office in Marrickville, to call for permanent protection for all refugees.
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Coroner Simon McGregor, who conducted the inquest into the death in prison of Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson, said Victoria’s Bail Act needs to be “urgently” amended. Chris Slee reports.
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Donna Nelson, the mother of Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson, has spoken out about the failures of the system and called for changes to the bail laws. Kerry Smith reports.
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Malik Miah asks what this latest cop killing says about policing and why abolition is the only answer.
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Jorge Escalante discusses the protest movement, the nature of the Boluarte coup government and what it might take to bring it down.
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The current frenzy around the Alice Springs crime wave risks risks repeating the same moral panics and deployment of top-down policies which disempower First Nations people, write Thalia Anthony and Vanessa Napaltjari Davis.
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A small number of neo-Nazis tried but failed to stop the Merri-Bek City Council’s Day of Mourning ceremony from going ahead in Coburg on January 26. Sue Bolton reports.
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It took a mass civil rights movement to end legal racial segregation in the United States, writes Malik Miah. The same must happen to abolish policing and the corrupt criminal “justice” system.
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How can we prevail on Labor to admit that realpolitik is obscene as a frame for its Israel relations? How can we force it to see the Israeli colonising project as unacceptable in today’s world, asks Ken Blackman?
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Alex Bainbridge spoke with Kurdish-Iranian activist, author and film producer Behrouz Boochani about his latest book Freedom, Only Freedom and Australia’s refugee detention regime.
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A ceremony marking the 181st anniversary of the execution of freedom fighters was held at the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner monument on the corner of Victoria and Franklin Streets. Darren Saffin reports.
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Here’s a list of Invasion Day protests and events happening across Australia this year.
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