Pensioners rallied in Melbourne on May 20 to protest against the federal government's budget. The rally was organised by the Fair Go for Pensioners Coalition.
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A Friday night march through Sydney city streets marked the 67th anniversary of Al Nakba, 鈥渢he catastrophe鈥, the beginning of the violent dispossession of the Palestinian people.
NETHERLANDS鈥 SOLAR BIKE PATHS
A Dutch project to turn has just cleared its first major test.
Who the hell cares how old Rebel Wilson is?
In recent days, online media began running strange stories 鈥 the exact relevance of which was unclear to anything but these site's Google analytics 鈥 claiming that Australian comic and actor Rebel Wilson was really in her mid-30s, not 29 as officially claimed.
This is how Tony Abbott explained the new work-for-the-dole measures in the latest federal budget to the Queensland Chamber of Commerce: 鈥淭hat person can do up to four weeks of work experience with your business, with a private sector business, without losing unemployment benefits so it gives you a chance to have a kind of try-before-you-buy look at unemployed people.鈥
In January this year, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott drew attention to the 鈥渦nfolding tragedy鈥 of violence against women and vowed to put the issue of what he misleadingly calls 鈥渄omestic violence鈥 on the national agenda.
Members of Latin American solidarity organisations from various Australian cities met in Canberra on May 9 for a Gathering in Solidarity with Latin American Struggles and in Defence of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. Around 40 representatives attended from Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.
The open letter that is abridged below was first published at literary magazine , where the full letter and its hundreds of signatories can be read. Artists and arts organisations can add their names to this list of signatories by emailing: overland@vu.edu.au.
If you would to like to sign the general petition, you can do so at the .
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Rallies were held around the country on May 22 to demand that Australian government end its inhumane policy of turning back refugees and rescue the thousands of Rohingyan refugees abandoned at sea before they starve to death.
Will Greece's SYRIZA-led government reach a last-minute deal with its creditors, the European Union (EU), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - the 鈥淭roika鈥 - to release the last 鈧7.2 billion owed to the country under Greece's second bail-out agreement?
More than 250 farmers and their city cousins rallied at Queensland Parliament House on May 21 calling for an end to unconventional gas production and coal mining.
The rally was organised by Lock the Gate (Queensland). Farmers from the Bentley Blockade and Northern Rivers in NSW travelled to Brisbane for the rally.
A 23 year-old Iranian asylum seeker has been savagely attacked on Nauru.
The young woman had been on day-release from the detention centre on May 16, visiting refugees in the community. She was expected back at 5pm so at 4.30pm she left the house she was visiting to catch the bus back to the detention centre.
She never arrived.
At about 8pm Nauruan police were seen wrapping the woman in a blanket and trying to place her in a police car. She had been found naked, distressed and disoriented.
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