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Just three weeks since No Other Land won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Academy Awards, Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten, kidnapped and tortured by Israeli settlers and the Israeli Defense Forces. But the deafening silence from the Academy has drawn condemnation, reports Isaac Nellist.

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Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to the occupied West Bank in Palestine. This is the first part of his account.

workers using vacuums to suck oil out of waterways in Ecuador

Communities in Esmeraldas province in northern Ecuador have denounced the government’s failure to act following one of the country’s biggest oil spills in recent history, reports Ben Radford.

protesters on the streets in Serbia

The wave of student-led anti-government protests continues to grow in Serbia, sparked by an awning collapse at the Novi Sad train station that killed 15 people, reports Sofija Filipovic.

students protesting in West Bengal

Student protesters at India’s Jadavpur University, in West Bengal, were subjected to violent attacks while demanding that student elections be reinstated by the state government, reports Sandip Nayak.

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.

Northern Territory Courts cut the after-hours bail service, creating more danger, particularly for minors. Stephen W Enciso reports on the community push-back.

Rank-and-file activists within the National Tertiary Education Union organised a national day of action for Palestine at nine university campuses. Jim McIlroy reports.

Socialist Alliance national co-convenor Sam Wainwright explains why the Socialist Alliance is campaigning at this election to cut military spending in half on the latest Green Left Show.

Labor has delivered what it hopes will be an election-winning budget, with $17 billion in new tax cuts and $150 in energy rebates to each household for their next two bills. Peter Boyle reports.

A new report found that an income of $130,000 a year is required to avoid rental stress, but Labor has no plan to address extortionate rents, argues Isaac Nellist.