麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Patrick Harrison spoke to Shamikh Badra, the youth and students coordinator for the Palestinian People Party in Gaza Strip. Badra will speak .
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What is the daily experience of living in the Gaza Strip?
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The editor-in-chief of Wikileaks and Australian citizen Julian Assange has not been charged with any crime in any country yet he now sits alone, abandoned by his government, in the Ecuador Embassy waiting to see if he will be granted asylum.
WikiLeaks Australian Citizens Alliance (WACA) will hold a mass rally on the steps of the State Library in Melbourne on July 1st at noon in support of Julian Assange.
About 80 people gathered at Victorian Trades Hall on June 20 for a public forum about the United States鈥 increased military presence in Australia. The forum was organised by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, with the support of Victorian Trades Hall council, the Philippines Australia Solidarity Association and Spirit of Eureka, among others.
Socialist Alliance member on the Fremantle City Council, Sam Wainwright discusses the "boom", 457 visas, training and migration to Australia.
The NSW Teachers Federation (NSWTF) launched the on June 19. The charter is a response to the state Coalition government鈥檚 plans to radically restructure the education system and cutback teaching an allied support positions.
Teachers called on the government to guarantee it would preserve quality education. The NSWTF warned that if the government refused to give such guarantees, it would ask members to stop work on June 27 to attend protest meetings and rallies.
Stop Coal Seam Gas Sydney activist Pip Hinman gave the speech below at the Marrickville local council meeting on June 19.
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I am a long-term resident in Newtown, a mother and an activist with Stop Coal Seam Gas Sydney.
I want to speak in favor of council supporting this poll.
We did have a win recently with DART announcing that it was not going to drill in St Peters after council decided to add a no CSG condition to Dial-a-Dump鈥檚 development application.
While that was a victory 鈥 it was only a victory of sorts.
The search and rescue of some continues after a boat capsized 200 kilometres from Christmas Island on June 21. Sydney's Refugee Action Coalition released the statement below on June 22.
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From the timeline of contacts between Australian authorities and the capsized asylum boat indicated by Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare, it seems that more timely action by the Australian rescue authorities could have averted the latest asylum boat tragedy.
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Sydney鈥檚 Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) says it will hold . The ceremony will hand the passports to migrants, refugees and Australian citizens who want to give their support to Aboriginal justice.
Refugees will receive the passports for free. Others who want a passport will need to bring a passport photo and pay a $10 fee.
Labor and independent councillors in Marrickville decided on June 19 against holding a poll on coal seam gas at the same time as the local council elections.
This is despite the fact that the council has had two unanimous votes against coal seam gas exploration.
Non-binding polls are available to all councils and have been used to gauge community opinion on a variety of topics.
Greens councillor Cathy Peters put the urgency motion, inspired by Lismore City Council鈥檚 decision to poll its local residents about coal seam gas production and exploration.
Aboriginal speakers lashed out against the Labor government鈥檚 five-year Northern Territory intervention .
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, a former mayor of Barkly shire in the Northern Territory, said: 鈥淎 lot of us are going through severe trauma. We live in terror of our language, ceremonies and land being taken away.鈥
She drew parallels between her people鈥檚 current nightmare and that faced by the Jews during the Holocaust of World War II.
Uncertainty and confusion now surround the Apex/Ormil coal seam gas (CSG) project in the Illawarra. The project includes 16 CSG wells scattered across two Petroleum Exploration Licences (PELs). But according to the project鈥檚 conditions, drilling and operation of the wells must take place within three years and before the expiry of one of two relevant licences, unless the director-general of the planning department steps in.
NSW firefighters went out on strike for the first time in 56 years to protest against attacks on workers' compensation rights by the O'Farrell Liberal-National state government. They converged with their firetrucks on Macquarie St, Sydney, and turned the hose on Parliament House to "wash away the stench" of this anti-worker government.
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