Across the world, governments are targeting climate change protesters, while allowing fossil fuel companies to continue to pollute. In Australia such arrests are above the international average. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Australia
Disrupt Burrup Hub climate campaigners defiantly pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and will return to court to fight other charges. Riley Breen reports.
Activists again stopped logging in the West Kunanyi Range, part of the Wellington Range, following a call from Uncle Jim Everett to protect Country in the lead-up to Invasion Day. Kerry Smith reports.
Forty-nine activists fronted the Melbourne Magistrates Court on a variety of charges related to organising and participating in the Disrupt Land Forces protest. Chloe DS reports.
The Chris Minns government has known for at least 16 months about the 140 vacancies in the psychiatry workforce, but rather than rectify this it has gone on the offensive against public health professionals. Jim McIlroy reports.
The Jewish Council of Australia has warned politicians not to use antisemitic attacks to point-score or spread other forms of hatred, such as Islamophobia or anti-Palestinian racism. Kerry Smith reports.
Pro-Palestine protesters around Australia mobilised on the 471st day of Israel’s genocide, expressing their guarded relief at the ceasefire deal. But they vowed to keep demanding justice for Palestine and for the criminals and conspirators to be held to account. Alex Bainbridge, Isaac Nellist, Peter Boyle and Niko Leka report.
Djab Wurrung Gunnai Gundjitmara woman and independent Senator Lidia Thorpe spoke to Chloe DS on the latest episode of the Green Left Show about resisting racism, the importance of truth-telling and Labor and Liberal’s refusal to deliver justice for First Nations people.
NSW Greens MLC Sue Higginson has spoken out about dangerous “lynch mob politics”, saying it is “stupidly ignorant” and leads to laws that don’t work. Paul Gregoire reports.
Jews against the Occupation ’48 is calling on the international community to demand Israel be prevented from imposing a ban on the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, due to take effect on January 30. Jepke Goudsmit reports.
While NSW Labor claims it cannot afford to pay medical professionals the same rates as their counterparts in other states, the public doesn’t buy it. Suzanne James reports.
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network and the South African Boycott, Divestment and Sanction Coalition were among many pro-Palestine organisations around the world that responded positively, yet cautiously, to news of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Pip Hinman and Susan Price report.
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