Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe said a Treaty process that does not address the “continuous theft of our land and destruction of our sacred sites undermines our very survival”. Kerry Smith reports.
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Thousands gathered at Camp Sovereignty to show solidarity with First Nations people against the fascists and racists’ brutal attacks on the camp. Blair Vidak reports.
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Sue Bolton argues that the counter protests to the racist anti-migrant March for Australia protests were necessary and need to continue, but progressives also need to take aim at bipartisan policies that normalise racism.
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Blak Caucus organised a protest outside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electorate office in Marrickville to demand sanctions be placed on the Country Liberal Party government of the Northern Territory over its racism. Zebedee Parkes reports.
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Indonesian security forces opened fire on a peaceful protest in Sorong, West Papua, killing one person and injuring several others, reports Susan Price.
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Far-right-organised “March for Australia” rallies were met by counter-protests across the country. Alex Bainbridge, Jordan AK and Solomon Doyle report.
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A disintegrated left establishment, worsening economic crisis and resurgent right wing marked the first round of Bolivia’s elections, which spelt the end of the Movement Towards Socialism’s 20 years in power, reports Ben Radford.
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Indigenous Wampís leader Galois Flores Pizango spoke to Green Left’s Ben Radford about the struggle to defend territory and advance a vision of sustainable Indigenous development.
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Several hundred people attended climate organisation Rising Tide’s Action Camp at the Addison Road Community Centre. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Mariane Paviasen Jensen, a Greenland MP for the Inuit Ataqatigiit party and prominent environmentalist, has described a 60 Minutes Australia program as a “propaganda broadcast” for Australian mining company ETM, reports Peter Boyle.
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The recent discovery of a mass grave in Sri Lanka has ignited a wave of protests by Tamils demanding an investigation, accompanied by calls for the government to fulfil its pledge to improve the treatment of Tamils. Chris Slee reports.
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Lidia Thorpe and Alex Bainbridge discuss the Red Lines package against genocide and the campaign against Black deaths in custody in the latest episode of the Green Left Show.