While this federal election is heavily focused on cost-of-living pressures, Mark Gillespie argues that candidates cannot ignore the fact that Australia also faces urgent international relations’ challenges.
Indigenous
An alternative ANZAC day ceremony had a focus on peace not militarism. Renee Lees reports.
Peter Boyle argues that Labor and Coalition governments have exploited the ANZAC sacrifice myth to justify and promote Australian participation of, and complicity in, subsequent imperial wars.
In Indonesian-occupied West Papua, soldiers are enforcing the destruction of vast areas of rainforest to be replaced by the monoculture plantations of the government’s “food estate” program, reports Chris Lang.
The controversial Treaty Principles bill has been defeated after the people of Aotearoa New Zealand spoke out against it in record numbers, reports Zara Lomas.
Yorta Yorta, Yirendali and Kalkadoon woman Miss Kaninna performed an electric set to a sold-out crowd at The Vanguard in Newtown, reports Isaac Nellist.
Human Rights Watch criticised the Western Australia government for the alarming rise in the forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families. Paul Gregoire reports.
A ceasefire rally was organised by the Islamic community in Garramilla/Darwin in the wake of Israel’s renewed bombing in Palestine. Stephen W Enciso reports.
Frontline workers in the Northern Territory are pushing back against the Country-Liberal Party’s destructive “tough on crime” policies. Stephen W Enciso reports.
Labor is defying a United Nations order to ensure the Wunna Nyiyaparli people of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region are able to decide how they develop their traditional land. Paul Gregoire reports.
Communities affected by Cyclone Alfred dumped flood-damaged belongings outside parliament and demanded action to prevent future climate disasters. Kerry Smith reports.
The blowback against Rio Tinto for blasting a sacred rock shelter to pieces in the Pilbara was enormous. Cas Smith reports that WA Labor has passed the buck on mega mining approvals to the federal government.
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