Several thousand people joined Women's Marches in Sydney and Melbourne on January 21, a part of a global mobilisation to coincide with the inauguration of the misogynist far-right US President Donald Trump.
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Good riddance to former state Liberal Premier Mike "Bad" Baird who announced on January 19 that he was resigning from his position.
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A year ago, Mike Baird was the most popular politician in the country. By the end of last year ose, suffering one of the biggest falls in opinion polls in Australian political history.
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One of the best tennis players and athletes of all time, US star Serena Williams has been scrutinised so much for being a strong, Black woman that she herself began to doubt her own strength and body, the star told her long-time friend and rapper, Common, in a special ESPN interview last month.
鈥淭here was a time where I didn鈥檛 feel incredibly comfortable about my body because I felt like I was too strong,鈥 Williams said during the one hour-long ESPN special, The Undefeated In-Depth: Serena with Common.
Hendrix, possibly the greatest-ever rock guitarist, arrived in public consciousness at exactly the right moment. His music summarised the desire of millions of youth to break through to a new society.
When Fremantle councillors voted in August last year to end the Australia Day fireworks display that it had been running for the past eight years, I fully expected a conservative backlash. But even I was surprised to see the decision featured in news bulletins for months on end.
On one level the whole thing is bizarre. Local governments are not obliged to do anything special on January 26 and most of them don't.
What drove the conservative media and Coalition politicians into a frenzy was the council's reason for doing dropping the fireworks display.
The New South Wales state government has released changes to the state鈥檚 planning law which, if passed, will grant big mining companies more power and reduce communities and councils鈥 already limited rights of appeal.
The government says the changes to the , released on January 9, are primarily about promoting 鈥渃onfidence鈥 in the state鈥檚 planning system.
As Invasion Day approaches, Murri leader Sam Watson told 麻豆传媒 Weekly that January 26 was 鈥渙nly a date when a motley collection of boats made landfall on Gadigal country to establish the colony of NSW鈥.
鈥淚t is important to mobilise and march [on Invasion Day] to remind everyone that an illegal invasion took place on this soil," he said..
鈥淭hey came here to launch a war of genocide against the 500 sovereign nations of this land.
鈥淭hey came to invade as a fully-armed military force. They massacred and slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent people.
Pro-choice activists in Queensland say the campaign for abortion law reform is entering its 鈥渇inal, most important stage鈥.
This was the assessment of Kate Marchesi and Olivia King from about the campaign to support abortion law reform measures introduced by independent state MP for Cairns, Rob Pyne.
Donald Trump may have won the US elections with demagogic, strongman promises to 鈥淢ake America Great鈥, but, in the lead up to his inauguration, the hollowness of such claims is clear as he stocks his Cabinet with oligarchs collectively worth billions.
Last year鈥檚 presidential election was marked by deep divisions in both the Democratic and Republican parties, on top of a stalemate in Congress between the twin parties of US capitalism.
This year will be the year of the showdown between Catalonia and the Spanish state over whether the Catalan people have a right to vote on self-determination in relation to Spain.
The year starts with the final battle lines already drawn in the contest between the right-wing Spanish-patriotic People鈥檚 Party (PP) government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and the pro-independence Catalan government, headed by Carles Puigdemont.
New international talks aimed at ending the Syrian conflict may be unlikely to succeed, but they do mark shifts in the alignment of competing forces.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted on December 31 to support a ceasefire in Syria that started the previous day. The latest round of international peace talks are scheduled for January 23 in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana.
In 2014, Hong Kong was rocked by the 鈥淯mbrella Movement鈥 鈥 an ongoing series of mass protests featuring sit-ins against a series of attacks on democratic rights.
Robin Lee, a British left-wing activist living in Hong Kong who is an editor of the Borderless Movement, was interviewed by 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Alex Bainbridge about the current situation.
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Can you make some comments on the current political situation in Hong Kong since the 2014 democracy uprising?
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