Andrew Chuter, a public and active transport campaigner, has warned that Labor’s decision to temporarily halve the fuel excise may worsen the impact of the Iran war fuel crisis. Peter Boyle reports.
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Josef Benedict is a researcher covering the Asia Pacific region for the CIVICUS Monitor, a publication of the CIVICUS global civil society alliance that is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. He spoke to Green Left’s Peter Boyle on March 3.
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An exhibition of recent works by Gazan artist Majed Badra and a selection of historic Palestine solidarity posters was opened at the Muloobinba/Newcastle Resistance Centre on March 28, reports Peter Boyle.
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“Cuba is in desperate need of our solidarity and it’s time for us to return it to Cuba, who has been offering solidarity with countries all around the world since the revolution started”, Lia Weitzel told Peter Boyle.
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The full extent of the human and environmental costs of the latest illegal imperial war launched by the United States and the racist settler-colonial state of Israel will be difficult to determine. Peter Boyle reports.
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Peter Boyle pays tribute to Salih Muslim, one of the key leaders of the Rojava revolution in northeast Syria, who died in Erbil, Iraq, where he was being treated for kidney failure.
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Peace and solidarity activists took to the streets to demand the Labor government pull back from its support for Israel and the United States’ illegal strikes on Iran and push for the US and Israel to halt all military action. Peter Boyle reports.
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Labor’s handling of the so-called “ISIS brides” issue is the latest example of its willingness to fan the flames of racism and division, argues Peter Boyle.
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Multiple government agreements have been made to “close the gap” but, as Peter Boyle writes, the 2025 Closing the Gap report reveals that most measures will not be reached by 2030.
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Activists Gabi McCutcheon and Paula Corvalan share their accounts of the NSW Police violence at the Sydney protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
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An agreement was made under pressure between Rojava’s Syrian Democratic Forces and the United States-backed Syrian Transitional Government (STG) for a permanent ceasefire and integration of Rojava into the STG. Peter Boyle reports.
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Kurdish communities around the country have responded to the genocidal war against Rojava with multiple protests in several cities. Peter Boyle reports.