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Prisons in New South Wales are rife with COVID-19. Michael Hatrick reports activists demand the government follow its own laws and release prisoners to keep them safe.

The far-right Freedom Convoy has been calling for PM Justin Trudeau to resign. Instead, Conservatives leader and convoy supporter Erin O’Toole has fallen, writes Jeff Shantz.

Is Australia a “lapdog” for the United States or is it also an imperialist power — albeit smaller — looking to grow its own interests? Felix Dance looks at the evidence.

After a series of setbacks in 2015-19 suggested to many observers that the era of leftist governance in Latin America was over, the picture today is very different. A recent Alborada forum looked at what lies behind the Latin American left’s resurgence.

Despite promises to respect the right to seek asylum, Washington has been denying migrants that right by invoking a provision allowing it to limit travel under the pretext of mitigating COVID-19, writes José Luis Granados Ceja.

Government spokespeople and the media have been a little coy, but now the gloves are off: China is the enemy. William Briggs argues that the Quad meeting is the latest propaganda assault.

An online petition has been launched calling on the Australian government to de-list the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a “terrorist organisation”. Peter Boyle reports.

Hundreds of people turned out at short notice to protest federal government's religious discrimination bills. Elizabeth Bantas reports.

With the government in a spot of bother, expect some rather extravagant public spending promises. The Great Barrier Reef is not one that has been spared. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Leftist Xiomara Castro has been sworn in, marking the first time since 2006 that Honduras has a legitimately-elected president. Ben Radford reports.

Former Citipointe Christian College student Jared Mifsud spoke out against the so-called religious discrimination bill at a Brisbane rally on February 9.

No right to discriminate banner at February 9 protest

Alex Bainbridge reports more than 700 people attended a February 9 rally in Brisbane, called at two day's notice, to protest the Religious Discrimination Bill.

Anand Gopal's No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes, published seven years before the Taliban took control of Kabul for a second time in 2021, helps explain their victory, writes Chris Slee. 

Aged residents in care are dying at alarming rates from COVID-19, while the Prime Minister wastes precious time trying to convince us that the system is not in crisis. Jackie Kriz argues for a complete overhaul.

A group representing councils across NSW that want to demerge has urged Inner West Councillors to work together to force the NSW government to pay for the demerger. Peter Boyle reports.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney is being replaced by a new, centralised discipline structure, reports Georgie Dixon.

 

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