Australia

Rally calls for action on renewables
‘Change the rules for refugees’
Bank scandals fuel calls for radical new system
'Justice for Josh' rally
'America and Me' David Bradbury’s new doco looks at US’s permanent wars — and Australia’s role

Renowned filmmaker David Bradbury (twice Academy Award nominated) is in Parramatta for his latest documentary, America & Me, which chronicles his time in the US during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Communities protest NT government’s betrayal on fracking
Adani’s Godda power project bad news for Bangladesh
Loopholes in Queensland’s proposed law will allow ongoing clearing
New Greens Manifesto points to founding principles

In April, NSW Greens MLC David Shoebridge launched a Greens Manifesto in which he sets out a political vision that he says is in tune with the party’s founding four key platform points. Green Left Weekly’s Pip Hinman caught up with Shoebridge on April 18 to ask about the thinking behind the document.
What would the right to strike look like?
When the student press shook established power

Dissent didn’t obey strict decade-demarcation lines on Australian campuses in the radical 1960s, writes Sally Wood in Dissent: The Student Press in 1960s Australia.
‘The Death Of Stalin’ has laughs, but its satire falls short

Despite his great CV, Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin doesn’t quite reach its satirical pretensions.