Legal experts are calling on NSW Police to drop the charges against 129 climate activists after the Newcastle local court found four protesters not guilty. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has welcomed NSW Labor reaching an in-principle agreement for the Northern Beaches Hospital to become public. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Donald Robertson has written a powerful and revealing account of the life of John Maclean, one of the most important but little-known socialist leaders of Scotland and Britain, writes Jim McIlroy.
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Opponents of NSW Labor’s planning law changes say they are a gift to developers and make it easier to approve fossil fuel projects. Jim McIlroy reports.
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A group of Zionists are taking Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane to the Federal Court of Australia, claiming that to be “anti-Israel” is “anti-Jewish” and therefore “antisemitic”. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Nick Riemer and John Keane, long-time advocates of freedom and justice for Palestinians, are being sued in the Federal Court of Australia on trumped-up charges of antisemitism. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Residents protested outside the City of Sydney council meeting to call on Labor councillor Zann Maxwell to repay public funds for his pro-Israel junket. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Latin American solidarity activists called a snap protest against the United States military deployment in the Caribbean and demanded federal Labor publicly oppose the threat to Venezuela’s sovereignty. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The National Tertiary Education Union, together with the Australian Services Union and the Community and Public Sector Union, among others, joined a national protest to demand that Labor impose sanctions on Israel. Pip Hinman, Jim McIlroy, Jacob Andrewartha and Markela Panegyres report.
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Voices for the Valley is a powerful documentary about the “small, but mighty” community of Wollar, NSW, which has spent more than 20 years resisting the relentless damage of coal mining, reports Jim McIlroy.
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More than 100 staff working at the Art Gallery of NSW and their supporters protested NSW Labor’s plan to cut 51 jobs from the gallery workforce. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist from Bethlehem University, was a keynote speaker at a forum on the Palestine ecocide. Jim McIlroy reports.