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The Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network is campaigning for a ceasefire in Gaza and recently marched in the Tas Pride Parade to promote queer solidarity with Palestine. Janet Hawkes reports.

Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled responds to those who would ban her from Australia in an interview with Peter Boyle.

UQ students protest against Israel's genocide in Gaza

In the largest protest for Palestine in a decade, students rallied at the University of Queensland St Lucia campus in solidarity with Palestine. Sam Morris reports.

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Palestine liberation fighter Leila Khaled has described Israel’s occupation of Palestine as the “peak of terrorism”. This is why Zionist organisations want to stop her from speaking, writes Peter Boyle.

Engineering students at the University of Queensland are encouraged to apply for internships and work for weapons' manufacturing company Boeing. Aisling Geraghty reports.

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Aaron Bushnell became the first active duty United States soldier to use self-immolation to protest the actions of the military he was a part of, reports Peoples Dispatch.

More than 200 social and community workers took unprotected strike action in support of Palestine. Elizabeth Bantas reports.

The Australian Jewish Council said any suggestion that Palestinians arriving from Gaza are a threat to Jews is “outrageous”. Kerry Smith reports.

City of Sydney residents, along with environmental groups, rallied outside Tanya Plibersek’s office in Redfern, demanding she remember her once held pro-Palestine position and speak up for a ceasefire now. Jim McIlroy and Clay report.

 

Labor is under significant pressure to move away from its total support for Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Khaled Ghannam reports.

 

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An eager audience was treated to the award-winning documentary Palestine Under Siege by filmmakers Jill Hickson and John Reynolds in Gadigal/Sydney, reports Jepke Goudsmit.

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Ecosocialism 2024 conference organiser Sam Wainwright believes the far-right objections to even allowing Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khaled to address the Ecosocialism 2024 conference is “fake outrage”, reports Pip Hinman.