As the Nobel Committee announced聽on October 6 in Oslo that聽聽the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons had won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time,聽US President Donald Trump is expected to 鈥渄ecertify鈥 the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal next week. spoke聽with Tim Wright, the Asia-Pacific director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The full transcript follows the video.
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Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance.聽The world鈥檚 third biggest arms manufacturer, BAe Systems, supplier to Saudi Arabia, was promoting its guns, bombs, missiles, naval ships and fighter aircraft.聽聽
It seemed a perfidious symbol of a party in which millions of Britons now invest their political hopes. Once the preserve of Tony Blair, it is now led by Jeremy Corbyn, whose career has been very different and is rare in British establishment politics.
Thousands of people have come out in dozens of locations around Australia to oppose Adani's mega coalmine.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) warned that the Queensland government鈥檚 September 29 proposal to significantly , will further damage the ailing Great Barrier Reef.
Socialist Alliance candidates for Brownbill Ward in the Geelong Council election, Sue Bull and Sarah Hathway, who were among the first women candidates to nominate, have released their preferences, with the top seven positions going to progressive female candidates.
The several hundred men on Manus Island, still detained after more than four years, scattered red petals over pictures of Rajeev Rajendran on the evening of October 2.
A hand-drawn banner, illuminated by flickering candles, spelled out the mood of the memorial.
Below a picture of Rajendran the men wrote: 鈥淩.I.P. We are all in the queue. How many more you want to kill?鈥
So declared George Orwell鈥檚 allegorical Joseph Stalin, Napoleon the Berkshire Boar, in his 1945 classic Animal Farm. In Australia, we鈥檝e declared war on some inequalities, like those contained in the Marriage Act, while we acquiesce to, tolerate, ignore or accept many others. Just like the animals on Orwell鈥檚 Manor Farm, in contemporary Australia, it seems all inequalities are equal but some are more equal than others.
The world media鈥檚 attention has focused on the very real humanitarian crisis gripping hurricane-ravaged nations in the Caribbean and regions of the United States, but the聽鈥渨orld鈥檚 worst humanitarian catastrophe鈥 (in the words of The New York Times in August) is in Yemen.
The unfolding disaster in Yemen is entirely human-made, is worsening and is the result of policies pursued by the United States and Britain.
The United States has been criticised for voting against a United Nations resolution that sought to eliminate the death penalty for the LGBTIQ community. The US was among 13 nations including Saudi Arabia and Iraq to vote down the resolution.
The resolution condemned 鈥渢he imposition of the death penalty as a sanction for specific forms of conduct, such as apostasy, blasphemy, adultery and consensual same-sex relations鈥.
Despite the US vote, the United Nations Human Rights Council approved the historic resolution with a 27-13 margin.
Kone lift workers have won a 16% pay rise after a six-week campaign.
About 200 Kone employees voted to accept in principle the much-improved company offer.
The breakthrough came after ETU and AMWU members took five four-day and one six-day stoppages over six weeks.
Workers will soon receive a 5% increase in pay backdated to March, with instalments of 4.5%, 4.5% and 2% to follow annually.
Activists from all over Australia travelled to be part of the week of frontline action against Adani coalmine. 麻豆传媒 Weekly spoke to Juliette from Gympie in Queensland and asked her thoughts on the protest.
"I have come up to join all these amazing, strong, empowered people to show my opposition to the Adani coalmine because I really care about our planet, I care about our future.
Polls released in the first week of October have shown a surge in support for marriage equality, the result of new Australian Electoral Commission enrolments by young people, women and inner-city residents who are more likely to vote Yes.
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