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The spectrum of Palestinian groups have expressed gratitude to late Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro as a friend of Palestine鈥檚 struggle for liberation, .

In a rare move, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called out Saudi Arabia on September 22 for in Yemen that killed dozens of civilians, including children.

The US-backed Saudi coalition, which has been bombing Yemen since last year, struck a house in a residential area in western Yemen on September 21, killing 26 people, according to medics and residents.

In a new leadership election for the leader of the Britsh labour Party sparked by a right-wing, corporate media back assault on incumbent Jeremy Corbyn, the socialist leader was re-elected with an even larger majoroty of almost 62% of the vote. Corbyn聽stunned the political world when he won Labour's leadership in September last year聽with a "from nowhere win" on the back of anti-austerity politics.

The Green Party of England and Wales has that Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as leader of the Labour Party.and called for him to form a grssroots-led progressive alliance with other left forces.聽

Some of Australia鈥檚 most respected investigative journalists have signed an open letter to the federal government urging it not to privatise the corporate registry held by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). They have urged the government to make access to the database free, as it is in New Zealand and Britain.

Just-released modelling from BP has revealed that an oil spill from an uncontained blowout on its proposed Stromlo-1 well is guaranteed to impact the South Australian coast. It is possible that anywhere across the southern Australian coast could be impacted, from Western Australia across to Tasmania and NSW.

In light of this, the Wilderness Society has called on Australia鈥檚 offshore oil and gas authority, National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA), to reject BP鈥檚 application to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.

Connect Settlement Services, the company that provides welfare services for refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru, has told the federal government it will not re-apply when its contract lapses in December.

The company, which has about 100 staff on the island, provides health and education services and helps refugees look for work in the Nauru community.

On September 20, days after the passage of the 鈥渙mnibus鈥 legislation that enabled the implementation of the federal budget, Minister for Social Services Christian Porter released the Baseline Valuation Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), as part of the federal government鈥檚 鈥淧riority Investment Approach鈥.

In what amounted to a financial audit of the welfare system, the report focused on the costs to the welfare system over a prolonged period of three categories of recipients: young carers, young parents and students.

The Environmental Defenders Office Queensland (EDO), on behalf of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), lodged an appeal on September 19 against the Federal Court鈥檚 finding in August that then-environment minister Greg Hunt鈥檚 approval of Adani鈥檚 Carmichael coalmine was lawful.

The appeal challenges the lawfulness of the court鈥檚 finding that the minister was entitled to find the impact on global warming and the Great Barrier Reef from the Carmichael mine鈥檚 4.6 billion tonnes of carbon emissions was 鈥渟peculative鈥.

After Sustainability: Denial, Hope, Retrieval
By John Foster
Routledge, 2015
230pp, $53.95

Just thinking about the global ecological crisis is enough to make you worry. So what is it like when a professional philosopher, theologian and academic starts mulling it over?

Unfortunately, what results is this utterly despondent book by Lancaster University鈥檚 John Foster. It is, however, a sophisticated work and activists will no doubt encounter people quoting it in years to come.

Police dragged local residents out of a Sydney Park protest camp at 3am on September 20 so WestConnex contractors working for the private Sydney Motorway Corporation (SMC) could set up a construction site and begin work destroying thousands of trees in the park.

WestCONnex Action Group spokesperson Colin Hesse said: 鈥淭he police had assured us numerous times that we were camping lawfully on public land, therefore they wouldn鈥檛 be taking any action to remove us from the site.

Papua New Guinea marked its independence from Australia 鈥 achieved in 1975 鈥 on September 16. But West Papua, a province on the same island, continues its struggle for self-determination in one of the world鈥檚 least publicised and longest-running independence struggles.

West Papuans won their independence from Dutch colonialism in 1963, but the country was invaded by Indonesia and officially annexed in 1969 after a controversial referendum in which just over 1000 people voted.