ADELAIDE: Sun 13 April 2pm, at the steps of Parliament House. Gather there then walk to Light Square via the Immigration office in Currie Street
ARMIDALE: Sun 13 April 11am, Central Park
BRISBANE: Sat 12 April 1pm, King George Square
CANBERRA: Sun 13 April 1pm, Gareema Place, Civic
MELBOURNE: Sun 13 April 2pm, State Library
PERTH: Sun 13 April 1pm, St George's Cathedral
SYDNEY: Sun 13 April 1pm Hyde Park
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Radical punk-metal supergroup Iron Reagan have just released a free 13-track EP and are now playing it live across the US. Vocalist Tony Foresta and drummer Ryan Parrish answered some questions for 麻豆传媒 Weekly's Mat Ward while they were driving to Dallas.
Recent developments in the A-League football (soccer) competition in Australia help to show how the realm of sport entertainment is increasingly colonised by capitalist markets and how popular participation is undermined.
麻豆传媒 Weekly has reported on attacks on the rights of fans. They show how the owners of elite football clubs, the media and the state (particularly in terms of policing) undermine fans' rights, especially those engaged in 鈥渁ctive support鈥 in the stadium (singing, chanting, dancing, and banner waving).
Why does Bosnia-Herzegovina inspire so little interest and curiosity in the media and political class when, on the contrary, Ukraine is front-page news?
Is it because its name evokes the war that, 20 years ago, claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of men and women more than 200,000 dead and 600,000 exiles in the face of virtual indifference in the West as to what was happening one and a half hours by plane from Paris? Or because it often wakes up to the call of the muezzin?
More than 500 Indian migrant workers have died in Qatar since January 2012, The Guardian said on February 19, 鈥渞evealing for the first time the shocking scale of death toll among those building the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup鈥.
The revelation came after The Guardian reported in January that 185 Nepalese workers had died in Qatar last year, taking the total of Nepalese workers to die to at least 382 over two years.
Je yang camp, located a 30 minutes drive on often unpaved or rocky road from Laiza, the capital of rebels in Kachin State in northern Burma, accommodates about 8000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The wild landscape around the camp suggests the scenery would have been far more stunning without the presence of humans.
鈥淚n a few short months,鈥 principle speaker for Left Unity Salman Shaheen said in a March 31 , the new party 鈥渉as attracted more than 1,800 members. With a new member joining every 10 minutes over the weekend, the party is going from strength to strength.鈥
April marks the 50th anniversary of the US-backed military coup d鈥檈tat in Brazil. The coup kicked off a brutal 20 military dictatorship.
Military coups followed in Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. With the support of the US government and Paraguay, under dictator General Alfredo Stroessner, the region's regimes organised Operation Condor, a political repression and terror campaign to suppress opposition.
In New South Wales, politicians have been debating a bill known as 鈥淶oe's Law鈥, originally introduced by Christian Democratic Party鈥檚 Fred Nile.
Zoe鈥檚 Law aim to give legal rights to foetuses older than 20 weeks or weighing more than 400 grams. The law opens up the possibility of a pregnant woman being charged for damaging her own foetus.
More than 1000 people from 50 countries have signed the statement launched by Egypt Solidarity in response to mass death sentences imposed by Egypt鈥檚 military regime on alleged supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
On March 24, a court in Minya province condemned 529 people to death for the murder of a police officer in August last year after a trial which lasted just 45 minutes, where defence lawyers were not allowed to speak.
Despite its secrecy and lack of appropriate media coverage, many people have heard about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the huge free trade agreement being negotiated by some of the biggest economies on the Pacific rim.
Some of it details have been leaked by WikiLeaks, exposing the behind-closed-doors machinations of governments and large corporations.
But very few people have heard about PACER-Plus, a free trade agreement that will include the small island states at the heart of the Pacific.
A decision by the Fremantle City Council at its March 26 meeting to reject a Main Roads WA request to voluntarily hand over land began a dramatic new phase in the campaign against the state government's freeway building agenda.
The state government wants to replace a section of High Street on the eastern approach to Fremantle with a freeway at a cost of more than $100 million. This is intended to be the first link in their plan to build a six lane "freeway standard" route connecting the Kwinana Freeway to the Fremantle container port.
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