Secondary Students for Refugee Rights (SSFRR) is a group that was founded by Caitlin Woodland and Lucy Dodd, both students at Princes Hill Secondary College, to advocate for refugees鈥 rights.
It formed during the federal election campaign in response to refugees being demonised by politicians during the campaign.
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Selected people in Australia recently received the following invitation from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: 鈥淒ear TPP Stakeholders, As part of the Australian Government鈥檚 ongoing public consultation process on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations, the TPP negotiating team will be visiting Sydney on 30 October 2013 to meet with interested members of the public, and business and civil society stakeholders.
鈥淭he meeting will provide an update on the negotiations and an opportunity for further stakeholder input.鈥
Just what questions can you be asked when you apply for a job? According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald on October 12, global energy company Chevron asks some intrusive reproductive health questions of women applicants in its recruitment process. Questions include whether an applicant has been sterilised, their pregnancy history, how many abortions and stillbirths they have had, the number of 鈥渘ormal鈥 children they have and any birth defects their children may have.
Reclaim The Night has a proud international history as an annual protest of women and their supporters demanding an end to violence against women, and to the sexism and misogyny that underpin it. As shown by a 2012 globally focused study by US political scientists Mala Htun and S. Laurel Weldon, a key factor in reducing violence against women is strong feminist movements.
This statement was released by the Socialist Alliance on October 28
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The passing of the ACT assembly's bill to allow same-sex marriages on October 22 is a significant win and a step towards full, federal marriage equality.
The win is a result of long, hard-fought, grassroots campaigning. The federal government's bid to quash it with a High Court challenge is testimony to its bigotry and hostility to equality. We must defend the bill against the federal government's attack.
More people die from air pollution in Australia than the road toll, Greens Senator Richard Di Natale told a public meeting in Melbourne鈥檚 inner-west municipality of Maribyrnong on October 23.
Di Natale instigated the recent Senate inquiry into the effects of air pollution on human health, which concluded in August. He said there had been a 鈥渃atastrophic failure in this country to monitor air quality鈥.
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Multi-lingual multi-instrumentalist Pat Marks fronts the multi-faceted Melbourne band Pataphysics. As the "guerilla hip-hop" outfit prepare to launch their new EP, 麻豆传媒 Weekly's Mat Ward spoke to Marks about his multifarious pursuits, from refugee rights to juvenile justice.
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You've worked with refugees for a long time. Tell us a little about the work you do.
Several thousands of people marched and rallied in the United States鈥 capital on October 26 in protest against the mass surveillance of almost all Americans and hundreds of millions of citizens of other countries.
The huge Big Brother program, conducted by the US National Security Agency (NSA), has been exposed by Edward Snowdon, considered a hero by those demonstrating.
Beginning in May last, Snowden鈥檚 trove of revelations keeps coming through releases by Glenn Greenwald in the British Guardian.
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The Big Truck That Went By, How the World Came to Save Haiti and left Behind a Disaster
By Jonathan M. Katz
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
282 pp., $24.95
On January 12, 2010, Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, was devastated by a huge earthquake.
Death toll estimates range from between 100,000 to more than 300,000. Nobody really knows, because Haiti was poorly governed beforehand and virtually taken over by foreign governments and non-government organisations (NGOs) afterwards.
I was introduced to Gazan hip-hop act Revolution Makers when I saw them perform in Gaza City during PalFest in May.
A details genocide against the indigenous people of West Papua carried out by the Indonesian government, which has occupied the territory since the 1960s.
The report, 鈥淎 slow-motion genocide: Indonesian rule in West Papua鈥, was written by Dr Jim Elmslie and Dr Camellia Webb-Gannon, both visiting scholars at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University. It was published in the Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity.
Recently, Mamamia editor Mia Freedman wrote railing against Kim Kardashian. While by no means do I hold Kardashian up as a demonstration of feminism, I think that Freedman has this wrong, very wrong.
From the title 鈥淎re you a mother or a porn star?鈥, which degrades the ability of women who work in the porn industry to be effective parents, Freedman projects some extremely backward views on motherhood, sexuality and body image.
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