First Nations leaders and human rights groups are demanding that a bomb designed, the WA 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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Merri-bek City Council held its annual Day of Mourning Ceremony at Coburg Town Hall on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples. Darren Saffin reports.
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This year's Invasion Day protests, including many young people, were very large. The turnout represents a huge defeat for the racist, pro-genocide offensive by state and federal governments, and the far right.
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese frames Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit as a gesture of solidarity, following the antisemitic terror attack in Bondi, but a growing number argue it is a grave moral failure. Olivia Jurincic reports.
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Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that no dictatorship forms overnight. It happens through laws that restrict public assembly, criminalise dissent, expand police powers and reframe political opposition as a threat to public order.
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Peter Boyle joins Green Left Radio to discuss the grave threats against the Rojava Revolution.
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Richard Marles remains wildly enthusiastic about AUKUS, declaring it to be “full steam ahead” after meeting US war ministers Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in Washington in December. Pip Hinman reports.
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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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The Rojava Revolution, organised around the principles of pluralism and democracy, women’s liberation and ecology, is under existential threat, writes Elise Boyle Espinosa.
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Aiman Farihah, central committee member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia’s youth wing, argues for a socialist alternative to capitalism’s inherent violence and brutality.
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The Invasion Day rally will march from Hyde Park to the Yabun Festival and Blak Caucus is calling for a big show of support. Rachel Evans reports.
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Socialist Alliance calls on those who support democracy and human rights to oppose the genocidal attacks on the Kurdish-led Rojava Revolution and urges the Australian government to send urgently needed funds.