During Easter, refugee-rights activists will converge on the Baxter Immigration Detention Centre near Port Augusta, South Australia, to protest against the ongoing human rights abuses of asylum seekers. Green Left Weekly's Virginia Brown spoke to
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BRISBANE — A Socialist Alliance forum on February 8 screened videos on the history and current stage of the Acehnese national liberation movement, and heard two speakers recount stories of recent upheavals and past conflict.
Coral Wynter
BRISBANE — The new wave of struggle for Aboriginal rights in Australia that began in the 1960s was launched by the Freedom Ride led by Charlie Perkins in February 1965, Murri activist Sam Watson told a solidarity night at the Jagera Centre,
SYDNEY — On February 12, exactly 40 years after the legendary 1965 Freedom Ride, 200 supporters farewelled the Freedom Ride 2005 bus as it departed from Sydney University to follow the original route. After a welcome to Gadigal Land of the Eora
On February 9, the French National Assembly passed a bill to significantly weaken the 35-hour work week won in 1998. The bill, passed four days after 300,000 people marched to defend the 35-hour work week, will now go to the Senate, where it is
Within his first 100 days in power, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono broke his election promise not to increase the price of petrol, kerosene and natural gas. Yudhoyono announced in early February that oil prices would increase this
Stuart Munckton
In an editorial on January 14 attacking the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Washington Post wrote, "Mr. Chavez has pushed through a new law that allows the government to fine or shut down private media for
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1916: Emma Goldman is arrested in New York for lecturing on birth control.
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1938: The Amalgamated Engineers Union is deregistered after refusing to discontinue a strike in Sydney.
1942: Black Panther Party founder Huey
Paul Oboohov, Canberra
Activists in Canberra were shocked to learn of the January 19 death of Charlie Pahlman due to a snorkelling accident in Samoa. Charlie was deputy director of the ACT Council for Social Services (ACTCOSS), an ACT Greens
Michelle Brear, Sydney
The coronial inquest into the death of Thomas "TJ" Hickey was a "whitewash", Ray Jackson, president of the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA), told the 150-strong crowd that packed Redfern Town Hall on February 8.
Alex Salmon, Perth
The campaign for the February 26 Western Australian election has become dominated by the issue of how to solve the problem of water supply in the state's south-west, including metropolitan Perth.
In the drought-stricken farming
Blaktrax: Gumbainggir Lady — Features Emma Donovan, a young Gumbainggir woman from an Aboriginal family well-known in the music scene. Her vocal style is influenced by country, gospel and soul. SBS, Saturday, February 19, 5.30pm.
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