Socialist Alliance opposes Labor’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill. Jonathan Strauss argues that those who want the right to oppose genocide, or to defend democratic rights more generally, should reject these laws.
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Three activists partially won a case in the Federal Court against Victoria Police’s extraordinary powers over designated areas in the CBD. Chloe DS reports.
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First Nations leaders and human rights groups are demanding that a bomb designed, the Western Australia 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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On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left, giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country.
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Noongar Elder Uncle Hedley Hayward told the Invasion Day protest that it is a Day of Mourning, also because of ongoing settler-colonialism.
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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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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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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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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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To mark 10 years since his uncle, Dunghutti man David Dungay jnr, was murdered at Long Bay jail, Paul Silva organised a protest at Hyde Park, which also challenged the NSW’s new draconian anti-protest laws. Rachel Evans reports.