Australia

Climate, environment and water campaigners are fighting what they see as Labor’s walk back on its promised reforms to the main environmental law, the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Tracey Carpenter reports.

Efforts to unearth details of the defence relationship between Australia and Israel are proving difficult. Binoy Kampmark reports that defence is continuing to deny information due to alleged damage to international relations.

Blockading the offices of Mediterranean Shipping Company

Protesters blockaded the offices of Mediterranean Shipping Company as part of an international economic blockade against Israel. Alex Salmon reports.

Social worker students are struggling to complete the required 1000 hours of unpaid placement work and want the unpaid scheme ended. Cody Jensen reports.

The Jewish Council of Australia and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Australia are among many condemning efforts to weaponise the tragic stabbings at Westfield shopping Centre in Bondi. Kerry Smith reports.

Maintaining the pressure on the Albanese government, Gadigal/Sydney, April 14

There was a defiant mood at the April 14 protests, marking 27 consecutive weeks of protest against Israel's genocide in Gaza. Alex Bainbridge reports.

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The Art of Banksy: Without Limits is a wild ride into the anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist artistic world of Banksy — the British creator who put progressive politics into street art internationally. Jim McIlroy reviews.

The First Wave, a new film by environment group Rising Tide, was launched by an enthusiastic crowd. Jim McIlroy reports.

Binoy Kampmark writes that caution should be exercised in response to the US President's remarks on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case. Nothing should be considered in earnest until signatures are inked and dried.

Refugees have been protesting outside the office of Home Affairs minister Clare O'Neil in Oakleigh to demand permanent visas.

Sit down protest

Thousands of people joined protests on the weekend of April 7, marking six full months of Israel's intensified genocide against the people of Gaza.

Colombian Guillermo Andres Mosquera Miranda has spent his life working to help others. Now he is seeking political asylum in Australia after becoming a target for assassins. Fred Fuentes reports.