First Nations leaders and human rights groups are demanding that a bomb designed, the Western Australia Police say, to “explode on impact”, be investigated in the same way that hate crimes against other groups are. Kerry Smith reports.
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Noongar Elder Uncle Hedley Hayward told the Invasion Day protest that it is a Day of Mourning, also because of ongoing settler-colonialism.
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Ahead of the Day of Mourning, January 26, three First Nations Noongar elders are demanding federal and state governments implement all the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Kerry Smith reports.
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Members of Queer Liberation Boorloo sent an open letter to the organisers of Perth’s annual Pride Parade, expressing concern about the inclusion of armed and uniformed police officers. Cas Smith reports.
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Socialist Alliance senate candidate Sam Wainwright talks to the Green Left Show about the campaign to challenge the big mining companies and to “take back the wealth”.
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The queer community organised a number of events for Pride Month, including the annual Pride Parade through the streets of Northbridge. Nova Sobieralski reports.
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Sam Wainwright outlines Socialist Alliance's “Take Back the Wealth” campaign in Western Australia and why you should support it.
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Hundreds of activists from across Western Australia greeted Labor’s conference delegates with concerns over fracking, the AUKUS submarine deal and the refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Riley Breen reports.
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Local councils attitude to the greater presence of nuclear-powered submarines on their doorstep, and to AUKUS more generally, influenced the Western Australian local government elections. Sam Wainwright reports.
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More than 700 people gathered on the steps of WA parliament to demand that Labor ban fracking in the Kimberley. Sam Wainwright reports.
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Western Australian Labor’s proposed amendment to the Criminal Code, dubbed the “post and boast bill”, could easily be used against grassroots groups seeking to force Labor to act on various reforms. Maz Misiewicz reports.
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Disrupt Burrup Hub activist Petrina Harley faced court for blocking access to Woodside’s industrial plant in Western Australia’s Burrup Hub peninsula last year. Paula Green reports the court rejected her “climate emergency defence”.