Outgoing United States President Joe Biden has a chance to make history of the right sort by pardoning WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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When martial law was declared in South Korea, Melbourne resident Seona Cho immediately booked a flight back to Seoul, where she joined impeachment rallies and labour protests, standing in solidarity with workers fighting for democracy and justice. This is her account.
Construction workers protested outside the Fair Work Commission to demand that Esther Van Arend, a former Construction, Forestry Maritime and Employees Union health and safety organiser who had been unfairly sacked by the CFMEU administrator, be reinstated. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Amnesty International Australia, rights organisations and pro-Palestine solidarity organisers have criticised the NSW Premier鈥檚 call to ban Palestine protests outside places of worship. Pip Hinman reports.
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Protesters made their opposition known as the new City of Greater Geelong Council pushed to undo the former council decision, made with First Nations peoples鈥 support, not to recognise January 26 as 鈥淎ustralia Day鈥, reports Angela Carr.
Despite his failed December 3 self-coup, South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol remains in his post after MPs from the conservative ruling People Power Party (PPP) boycotted a impeachment vote on December 7, reports Won Youngsu.
The New Progressive Party, Puerto Rico鈥檚 right-wing pro-statehood faction, has entrenched itself as a major political force, creating a system that increasingly resembles a one-party state, argues Javier A Hern谩ndez.
While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese鈥檚 new social media ban for young people may appeal to worried parents,听Luka Koerber writes it doesn鈥檛 address the real problems with social media platforms.
Hundreds joined a Human Rights Day vigil to support Uncle Robbie Thorpe's case against former Benjamin Netanyahu advisor Mark Regev, which was withdrawn by the Department of Public Prosecutions. Jacob Andrewartha reports.听
The rapid mass response to South Korea president Yoon Suk-yeol鈥檚 declaration of martial law, which stopped the president鈥檚 coup in its tracks, is explained by South Korea鈥檚 history of military regimes, writes Barry Sheppard.
Paul Gregoire writes that if the attorney general really cared about protecting whistleblowers, he would exercise his power and release Richard Boyle today.
Anti-Zionist organisations condemned the attack on a Melbourne synagogue saying it is 鈥渁n attack on us all鈥. Kerry Smith reports.
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