Rachel Evans

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.
 

Thousands of Palestine solidarity activists converged on Parliament House to demand that the Anthony Albanese government sanction Israel for its genocide in Gaza. Jacob Andrewartha and Rachel Evans report.

Refugees and their supporters rallied at Town Hall, Gadigal Country/Sydney, to demand Labor stop deporting refugees and grant permanent visas to asylum seekers. Rachel Evans reports.

murals on the wall of a hut

The Candy Royalle and Hind Hut was formally opened by muralist Saffaa, in conjunction with the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville, reports Rachel Evans.

Northern Beaches Councillors voted down a ceasefire and divest from Israel motion, with only Greens councillors voting in support of the pro-Palestine resolution. Buffy Mair, Manly and Rachel Evans report.
 

While new research shows that social housing wait lists are rapidly growing, Victorian and New South Wales Labor are pushing ahead with demolitions despite community resistance. Rachel Evans reports.

Hundreds joined in 17 protests organised by What You Were Wearing? in cities across the country to demand governments take real steps to drop domestic and family violence. Rachel Evans and Liv Carney report.

Any party or MP facing off Donald Trump’s attacks on trans, nonbinary people and women will have a fight on their hands, argues Rachel Evans.

The City of Sydney became the first New South Wales council to pass a boycott and divest motion when nine other councillors, with the exception of the one Liberal, supported the move. Olivia lurincich and Rachel Evans report.

Thirty-two mainly older boarding house tenants at 58–64 Selwyn Street, Paddington, are facing eviction after several attempts to stop their homes from being demolished seem to have failed. Rachel Evans and Paula Corvalan report.

Targeting health care workers is a war crime, Naarm/Melbourne, January 5

The first pro-Palestine rallies for 2025 condemned Israel’s attack on Kamal Adwan hospital and the arbitrary arrest of its director, Dr Hussam Abu Safia. Alex Bainbridge reports.

National vigils and rallies organised by What Were You Wearing called on Labor to do more to stop violence against women. Rachel Evans reports.