Gadigal Country/Sydney

  • Day 1 #OccupySydney

    Peaceful occupation against the dictatorship of the world's richest 1% outside the Reserve Bank in Martin Place, Sydney on October 15, 2011. ";i:1;a:1:{s:4:"TYPE";s:After keeping a low profile all day, police moved to disperse the camp at 10pm. However, the participants vowed to be back.

  • Message to Julia Gillard on refugees

    A refugee rights rally and march on June 26 — just two days after Julia Gillard displaced Kevin Rudd as Labor Prime Minister of Australia — sent her a message about refugee policy.

  • Ark Tribe solidarity march in Sydney

    About 3000 building workers walked off their jobs and marched in solidarity with Ark Tribe, the Adelaide construction worker facing jail for standing up to the ABCC industrial Gestapo introduced by the former Liberal-National government of Australia but kept in place by the current Labor government.

  • Anti-coal seam gas protest hits gathering of mining company chiefs

    Video footage of the unfurling of the giant "Enough Is Enough: Stop Coal & Gas Expansion" banner by two activists who abseiled down the front of the hotel where mining company executives were meeting to plan the wholesale exploitation of Australia even at the cost of communities and the environment. This was the highlight Lock The Gates, an alliance of urban and rural groups opposing coal seam gas mining.

  • Arts occupiers stand firm

    As we go to print, the students occupying the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) administration building at Rozelle can proudly say that theirs is the longest occupation in the history of the University of Sydney. It has now surpassed the 10-day occupation, in 1983, of the Department of Political Economy. The occupiers want the university to guarantee it will let SCA stay at Callan Park, drop its proposal for a 60% staff cut and reinstate the Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA).

  • NSW Premier Mike 'Bad' Baird on the skids

    “Beyond the amiable, good-bloke persona, [NSW Premier] Mike Baird is an aggressively neoliberal politician, who has quietly privatised dozens of state entities.

  • First Nations activists support arts students' occupation

    First Nations activists Raymond Weatherall and Ken Canning have sent solidarity messages to the students occupying the Sydney Arts School (SCA) in protest at the University of Sydney's corporatisation plans. * * * I am Ngarr Birriwa Galimaay, I am Gamilaraay, Goonal Goonal clan. Through my uncles I have started my cultural journey and have begun to learn how important art is for expression, story telling and empowering ourselves and future generations.

  • WestConnex facing new hurdles

    While the New South Wales government's disastrous WestConnex tollroad project is facing new challenges, the public campaign against the $17 billion privatised road network continues to grow. The latest headache for the government came about when chief commissioner for the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC) Lucy Turnbull triggered a public outcry after stating she was unaware of any large-scale destruction of houses in the heritage suburb of Haberfield, precisely as homes were being demolished in the inner-western Sydney suburbs.

  • 'Hiroshima Never Again' rally in Sydney

    Despite the rain, about 100 people rallied in Hyde Park on August 6 to declare, "Hiroshima Never Again," on the 71st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. The themes of the rally were: "Ban nuclear weapons," and "No nuclear waste dumps in Australia". A dramatic round of traditional drumming by a local Japanese cultural group and a set by the band Urban Guerrillas kicked off the rally.