A well-attended meeting at the Victorian Trades Hall endorsed the call for unions to join the National Day of Action on August 24. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Jacob Andrewartha
The global streets’ response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel will seize Gaza City has been huge protests demanding sanctions on Israel. Pip Hinman reports.
Hundreds of university and high school students mobilised for the National Student Strike 4 Palestine to demand universities cut all ties with Israeli weapons companies and that the government sanction Israel. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
A protest was called to oppose Victorian Labor’s destruction and privatisation of 44 public housing towers. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
While recognising Palestinian statehood gives legitimacy to Palestinians’ aspirations, to use it as a bargaining chip, as Australia is doing, is a face-saving exercise, argues Jacob Andrewartha.
A snap protest opposed Victorian Labor’s bail “reform” laws and called on it to implement an alternative series of reforms, which include the removal of the presumption against bail and for remand to be a last resort. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Thousands of Palestine solidarity activists converged on Parliament House to demand that the Anthony Albanese government sanction Israel for its genocide in Gaza. Jacob Andrewartha and Rachel Evans report.
Palestine solidarity activists are organising to converge on Parliament House in Canberra to demand Labor places sanctions on genocidal Israel. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Hundreds of mental health workers took stop-work action to demand better wages and conditions. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
A Voice for Members, a rank and file ticket contesting the Community and Public Sector Union elections, is the first in 32 years to challenge the incumbent union leadership and has activists running for every position. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Hundreds of people joined emergency protests against Israel’s illegal arrest of 12 activists from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. They followed regular weekend protests on the 610th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Pip Hinman, Jacob Andrewartha and Alex Bainbridge report.
A Voice for Members, a rank-and-file ticket contesting the Community and Public Sector Union elections, organised a protest against Labor’s proposed job cuts. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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