鈥淐ourage is contagious.鈥
When journalist Glenn Greenwald spoke via Skype to the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago in June last year, it was just three weeks after he had begun reporting on the leaks provided by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden that revealed the massive scope of government surveillance.
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A Brisbane court has upheld the state government's application for a permanent stay on legal action by Aboriginal elder Uncle Conrad Yeatman for retrieval of stolen wages.
This was a blow to an elders group that has been campaigning for many years for payment of stolen wages, taken under the Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Act 1939. Between 1904 and 1972, the state controlled the wages and savings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
World Refugee Day is dedicated each year to raising awareness about the more than 43.7 million refugees and internally displaced people around the world. The United Nations and non-government organisations usually share refugee stories and make pleas for compassion and empathy.
But in Australia, refugees and asylum seekers are treated like the enemy in a war: the target of a highly resourced, military-led 鈥渄eterrence鈥 strategy complete with arbitrary detainment, detention camps, guards to terrorise them, forced deportations and the violent suppression of those who protest.
Big business and mining giants are the acknowledged big winners of the recent federal budget, and it is Aboriginal people who will be the hardest hit.
The transformation of the Australian health and education systems as well as the cuts to welfare proposed by the federal budget will have particularly bad effects on Aboriginal people: whether living in remote communities, in cities or regional centres.
The global financial crisis had its origins in the US when interest rates fell from 6% in January 2001 to 1% in mid-2003. This led to banks and other financial institutions awash with cheap money to conclude that lending to home buyers at obvious risk of defaulting their repayments was a safe bet.
Australia is at risk of becoming a scientific backwater due to the federal government鈥檚 budget cuts to the CSIRO.
The government has proposed a $111 million cut to CSIRO funding in the May budget 鈥 about 20% of its total funding 鈥 and at least 1000 full-time staff will lose their jobs over the next four years.
Eight CSIRO sites around the country will close. Many are in regional country towns, which rely on the sites for employment.
Over 100 people rallied in Sydney on the anniversary of Eddie Murray鈥檚 death in police custody in a northwestern New South Wales town of Wee Waa 33 years ago.
Murray's murder was one of the black deaths in custody that led to the historic Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
鈥淎t the end of the day,鈥 Bella Bropho of the Swan Valley Nyungah Community told 麻豆传媒 Weekly, 鈥渨e want that land returned to us.鈥
She was referring to the Lockridge camp site which was home to the community until it was closed by the Western Australian government in 2003.
Despite the closure, the community has maintained a continuous connection with the site and still meets there every week.
At 5pm on June 10, government contractors moved in to remove fences and 鈥渄esecrate鈥 vegetation that was planted by community members.
Indian feminist and socialist Kavita Krishnan was the keynote speaker at the People's Power in the 鈥淎sian Century鈥 seminar in Sydney on June 7. The seminar was held as part of the Socialist Alliance鈥檚 10th national conference over the weekend of June 7-9.
Around 250 people attended the conference to hear Krishnan speak on the anti-capitalist struggle in India, and on capitalism, misogyny and sexual violence.
Sham contracting 鈥 when a company lists employees as contractors to avoid having to pay tax and benefits 鈥 and charging workers illegal fines are widespread practices in the sex industry.
It is understandable that Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has come out swinging.
Given that strikes, land occupations and protests are ripping out across the country in advance of the World Cup; given that a Pew Research Poll found 67% of the country is dissatisfied with her handling of the tournament organising; and given that Rousseff faces an election later this year, she is fed up and ready to play the conspiracy card about the turmoil gripping the country.
The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has again found former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid guilty of corruption.
On June 5, he was found corrupt over the non-disclosure of the ownership of cafes at Circular Quay and attempts to renew the leases without them going to tender.
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