After 40 years, The Pursuit of Happiness is being relaunched. Originally screened across the country and on the ABC, this feature film is about the ties that bind couples and nations. Kerry Smith reports.
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In the second of our two-part interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to Elias Jaua — Chavista, socialist and former vice-president of Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez — about the response inside the country to the January 3 US military assault, the Nicolás Maduro government, the state of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and popular participation today.
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International Day Against LGBTIQ discrimination was marked for the first time in Blacktown, with a community democracy theme. Paula Sanchez reports.
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This year's Sydney Film Festival, running from June 3–14, features films about First Nations resistance, a Palestinian uprising and communities seeking justice, writes Ben Radford.
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The inaugural Hazara Culture Day, supported by many community organisations, drew thousands to the Fairfield Showgrounds. Paula Sanchez reports.
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The Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group defended a NSW Court of Appeal ruling in the High Court that the climate change impacts of fossil fuel projects have to be taken into account. Kerry Smith reports.
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Shamikh Badra asks if “securitisation”, when a political or social issue becomes framed as an exceptional security matter, is being used to shut down freedom of speech over Israel's war on Gaza.
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A vigil for Isla Bell, who was murdered in 2024, was held at the State Library of Victoria. Darren Saffin reports.
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Members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) working for Brownes Dairy launched an 84-hour strike for fair wages and job security. Maz Misiewicz reports.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Elias Jaua, who explained how Venezuela came to be “militarily occupied and subjected to a policy of coercive tutelage” and why Venezuelans will need to wage a struggle for national liberation.
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Three pro-Palestine activists in Singapore have been found guilty under the Public Order Act and fined, after the High Court upheld an appeal on April 30, overturning their earlier acquittal, reports Susan Price.
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A recent High Court case, over undercover footage filmed inside a Victorian slaughterhouse, matters because whistleblowers have long played an important role in exposing exploitation that powerful interests would prefer to keep hidden. Greg McFarlane reports.