Video of the proud and dignified Coloured Diggers March through Redfern by Peter Boyle.
News
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Rallying against a transition from coal to weapons industry in Muloobinba/Newcastle. Video by Peter Boyle.
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Six Australians participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla are among those kidnapped by Israeli naval forces on international waters, reports Caroline Smith.
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Protesters gathered outside the venue where multinational arms manufacturer Thales was hosting drinks with defence, industry and government leaders. Leo Earle reports.
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The tragic killing of five-year-old Warlpiri girl Kumanjayi Little Baby exposes systemic failures in the justice and policing systems and the need for Aboriginal-led alternatives. Kerry Smith reports.
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Join rallies across the country to mark 78 years since the Nakba, the original ethnic cleansing and occupation of Palestine.
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Thirty-five years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the situation remains dire across Australia, with one prison in Western Australia reporting the deaths of two women in as many months. Blair Vidakovich and Cas Smith report.
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On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss anti-war campaigning and international solidarity with Cuba, Iran, Lebanon and Palestine.
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Uncle Ray Minniecon was booed by some in the crowd at the ANZAC Day dawn service in Hyde Park, but he persevered with his address, later saying people have to understand that this always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Peter Boyle reports.
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On this episode of On The Streets we discuss the nationwide protests to stop violence against women and children and resisting repression of the Palestine solidarity movement.
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The Sydney for Global Sumud Flotilla organised a solidarity and fundraising event for the Australian delegation joining the international aid flotilla. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Anti-war protesters held a snap action outside the Downing Centre court to demand that charges against people protesting Israeli President Isaac Herzog are dropped. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Socialist Alliance is standing housing campaigners Rachel Evans and Isaac Nellist in the inner-Sydney seats of Heffron and Balmain in the March 2027 state election.
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A 200-strong crowd braved the rain to protest outside Woodside’s annual general meeting at the Crown Casino, Perth, to demand it stop destroying the environment. Petrina Harley reports.
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A community gathering outside a well-preserved apartment block in Marrickville heard from tenants and housing campaigners, who stressed the need for the block to remain accessible for low-income people. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Justice for Palestine Magan-djin organised a weekend of action to protest draconian new laws which target the Palestine solidarity movement. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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A huge vote against the Labor and Liberal candidates in the by-election for Newcastle lord mayor largely went to independent Gavin Morris. Steve O’Brien reports.
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Palestinian Prisoners’ Day was marked at protests and rallies across Australia over April 17-19, reports Kerry Smith.
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Sarah Williams said that the national “No More” rallies were designed to “amplify survivors’ voices and push for policy changes”. Portia May reports.
Analysis
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Twenty Palestine justice activists were arrested by Queensland Police at a Not Our Law rally in Magan-djin/Brisbane. Paul Gregoire talks to Alex Bainbridge, an arrestee, about the campaign against the LNP’s criminalisation of Palestine freedom slogans.
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The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council has lodged a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission over the NSW Labor government’s threats to the land claim and land return process. Paul Gregoire reports.
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I was one of 22 people arrested in Magan-djin/Brisbane. Whether it was necessary for so many police to arrest one 73-year-old Jew, I’ll let you decide. Stephen Heydt reports.
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Defence minister Richard Marles’ announcement that he plans to raise military spending by $53 billion will help boost weapons’ company profits and shore up Australia’s position as deputy sheriff for the United States in the Asia Pacific, argues Isaac Nellist.
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The call for a tax on gas corporations’ exports is growing louder by the day. Despite 80% of gas production being sent offshore, the government receives almost no return. Cas Smith reports.
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The National Disability Insurance Scheme was built by decades of activist struggle. It will not be dismantled without a fight, argues Gabrielle McCutcheon.
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Shamikh Badra pays tribute to Caroline Graham, an activist who turned solidarity with Gaza into a living act of hope and resistance.
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The Anthony Albanese government’s decision to savage the National Disability Insurance Scheme ranks high in the scale of betrayals by neoliberal Labor governments, argues Graham Matthews.
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Chris Minns told a business summit last year that Labor’s planning changes were designed for them, which, as Ben Radford explains, means less public oversight and community engagement.
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Many nurses and midwives in NSW are unhappy with the Industrial Relations Commission's pay ruling, saying it does not address an undervalued profession. Pip Hinman spoke to Viola Morris.
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The premise that sex work is inherently and inevitably high risk leads to a lack of support for legal reform. Barbarella Karpinski argues that danger is structured and sustained by law, stigma and urban planning.
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Jacob Andrewartha argues that Angus Taylor’s “values-based” migration scheme is the latest example of the ruling class’ bid to ramp up racism and distract people from government failures in a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
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The symbolism of the Anzac Day legend from the very start has always obfuscated and minimised the truth of the 20th century wars, writes James Wyner.
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Hannah Jamal writes that every Palestinian and Lebanese person in the diaspora knows the feeling of seeing yourself and your family mirrored in every martyr, every injured and displaced person.
World
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Death penalty abolitionist and social justice activist Kokila Annamalai Parvathi was charged over her refusal two-and-a-half years ago to comply with a government censorship order, reports Susan Price.
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Médecins Sans Frontières has released a report documenting how Israel is deliberately depriving Palestinians in Gaza of water and sanitation, reports Kerry Smith.
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Peaceful protests against the worsening human rights situation in occupied West Papua were attacked by security forces, reports Susan Price.
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Human rights advocate Suhad Bishara, from Adalah — The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, unpacks Israel’s new death penalty law and how it targets Palestinians.
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Jacob Andrewartha speaks to Neysia Novaristia and Rizaldi Ageng Wicaksono about the ongoing struggle for democratic rights in Indonesia.
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Hungarian far-right president Victor Orbán’s fall represents a stinging ideological defeat for global neofascist and far-right movements and parties, argues Kevin B Anderson.
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Israel’s attacks humanitarian aid workers while continuing its blockade of Gaza, seven months into the so-called “ceasefire”, reports Tareq S Hajjaj.
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Women are at the forefront of struggles in Balochistan, a province in Pakistan that has long struggled for self-determination. Peter Boyle speaks to Sammi Deen Baloch, a young Baloch woman activist, about challenging state repression and patriarchy.
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Jonathan Strauss and Clive Tillman attended the First International Anti-Fascist Conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which brought together 4000 activists from more than 40 countries.
Culture
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Mat Ward looks back at April’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
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Mark Gillespie writes about the inaugural radical 78er History Walk, where he links past struggles to the present, including the ongoing police violence against peaceful protesters.
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Marxist economist Michael Roberts recently spoke to ecosocialist Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus about his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.
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Students, staff, volunteers and supporters of Sydney’s community radio station 2SER have launched a campaign to save the station from closure, following a major funding withdrawal, reports Andrew Chuter.