Protesters chanted “Nine years too long, free the refugees” while marching through the streets of Brisbane on July 23, reports Alex Bainbridge.
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Nearly two months after the May 24 shooting in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, part of the truth has been released, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
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Very few people know that an Aboriginal Tent Embassy was also set up in Adelaide in July 1972. Don Longo writes that this important protest event needs to be recused from historical obscurity.
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Western Australia’s most vulnerable regional children are still being jailed at Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre. Gerry Georgatos is organising a class action to close it down.
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Close Don Dale NOW! activist Natalie Hunter has denounced that “our kids are crying out for help and it is falling on apathetic ears”. Stephen W Enciso reports.
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Kaepernick & America portrays a person of courage and commitment while revealing the racist sickness at the heart of US culture, writes Barry Healy.
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Every Black person knows the double standards in policing and the legal system, writes Malik Miah.
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An estimated 5000 people took part in the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee march, reports Sue Bolton.
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More than 100 members of Western Australia’s Tigrayan community marched on July 8 to protest the war being waged against Tigray since November 2020. Alex Salmon reports.
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Human rights activist Stephen Langford has finally been acquitted of “malicious damage” for his pasting of the words of Governor Lachlan Macquarie on his statue in Hyde Park. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Muslim leaders accused of participating in and stirring protest against Islamophobic attacks in India are having their homes bulldozed by HIndu nationalist authorities in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, reports Binoy Kampmark.
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On the heels of its decision to overturn 50 years of abortion rights and blunt the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Supreme Court has announced it will take up a case that could upend the country’s electoral laws, reports Malik Miah.
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Gideon Polya writes that free speech faltered and falsehood triumphed at the University of Melbourne, after the student union was forced to withdraw a motion condemning apartheid Israel.
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First Nations peoples have historically been excluded from Australian universities. Even the so-called “sandstone universities,” were built on a foundation of invasion, genocide and land theft, writes Markela Panegyres.
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More than a dozen people blocked the entrance to the Nioa munitions company on June 16 ahead of a national day of action with Northern Territory First Nations communities. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Refugee activists gathered on World Refugee Day to call for permanent protection for refugees and an end to the country’s racist and cruel migration policies. Andrea Bortoli reports.
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Protesters gathered at Sydney Town Hall on Gadigal Land on Saturday June 18 to demand the removal of police guns from remote First Nations communities and demand justice for Kumanjayi Walker, who was killed by police officer Zachary Rolfe in 2019.
The rally heard from Yuendumu woman Aunty Audrey, the grandmother of Kumanjayi Walker, as well as a number of other speakers, including family members of others killed in custody .
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Hundreds marched through Sydney as part of a National Day of Action on June 18 to demand justice for Kumanjayi Walker, justice for the many deaths of First Nations people in custody, an end to the discriminatory Intervention powers and reassertion of community control.
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The Kurdish community and their supporters joined a global day of action against Turkey’s war on the Kurds. Chloe DS reports.
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Indian-Australians and anti-racist supporters are continuing to organise against the Hindutva hate movement being promoted in Australia. Rachel Evans reports.
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Confusingly, Labor’s Defence Minister Richard Marles told the Shangri-la Dialogue that Australia needs a good relationship with China while also letting it be known he supports the United States’ anti-China campaign. William Briggs reports.
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Justice campaigners are renewing their calls for Don Dale Youth Detention Centre to be closed, following reports of an attempted suicide by a child detainee. Stephen W Enciso reports.
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The Labor government has reignited hope that First Nations peoples will be included in decision-making. But the lasting impact of colonisation in how laws are applied also has to be addressed, argues Isaac Nellist.
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Paul Silva talks to Paul Gregoire about prospects for real change for First Nations peoples under the new Labor government.
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Hundreds joined a demonstration outside the Thornbury Theatre to say “no” to Hindutva hatred and to oppose fascist Tejasvi Surya from speaking at a conference. Chloe DS reports.
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When it comes to the business of politicising the right to asylum, no country jettisons the key principles of international law better than Australia, argues Binoy Kampmark.
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Detainees on 501s, some of whom are mentally unwell, continue to be forcibly flown from Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre in Melbourne to the Christmas Island detention centre. Chloe DS reports.
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