Unions NSW organised a “Unions for Peace” rally at Town Hall Square on Gadigal Country/Sydney, the first such action it has organised since Israel ramped up its genocide in Gaza in October 2023. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Judith Treanor, on behalf of Jews Against the Occupation ’48, asked at the Palestine Action Group’s rally: how it is possible that 22 months into a livestreamed genocide, the world is still debating whether it is even happening?
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About 300 people attended a vigil organised by the Sydney Druze community in solidarity with the people of Sweida/Suwayda, Syria, at Martin Place on Gadigal Country/Sydney. Peter Boyle reports.
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Several hundred people attended climate organisation Rising Tide’s Action Camp at the Addison Road Community Centre. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The historic Sydney Harbour Bridge protest on Gadigal Country has thrown up new opportunities to grow the movement for Palestine, argues Pip Hinman.
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Up to 300,000 people marched across Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge in a historic protest to demand Labor sanction Israel and provide aid to deliberately starved Gazans. Rachel Evans and Olivia Iurincich report.
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Mary Kostakidis told a public meeting, called to support her defence against the Zionist Federation of Australia, that everyone needs to stand up for the truth. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Pro-Palestine activists demonstrated outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Gadigal Country/Sydney to demand the Freedom Flotilla activists on board the Handala be released. Suelin McCauley reports.
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The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that Palestine solidarity protesters will have immunity under the NSW Summary Offences Act in the March for Humanity: Save Gaza protest on the Harbour Bridge. Pip Hinman reports.
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The NSW Court of Appeal overturned the 2022 Independent Planning Commission’s approval of MACH Energy Australia’s proposal to expand its Mount Pleasant coal mine in the Hunter Valley. Jim McIlroy reports.
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A packed-out public meeting called for AUKUS to be cancelled, because it makes war on China a greater risk while making Australia more complicit in United States-led war crimes. Peter Boyle reports.
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Hundreds of residents rallied in Marrickville to protest the pro-developer planning proposals being floated by the Labor-controlled Inner West Council. Hall Greenland reports.