More than 110 booksellers from Berkelouw Books and Harry Hartog stores across New South Wales went on strike for better pay, penalty rates and to end casualisation, reports Isaac Nellist.
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Palestine activists say South Australian Labor’s self-promotion as a “defence state” makes it complicit in the Gaza genocide. Markela Panegyres reports.
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The queer community organised a number of events for Pride Month, including the annual Pride Parade through the streets of Northbridge. Nova Sobieralski reports.
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Join your nearest Invasion Day protest on January 26 to demand justice for First Nations peoples, by ending paternalistic policies, including racist ‘tough on crime’ laws.
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The New South Wales Labor government is failing to protect the state’s rapidly declining koala population, which is under threat from logging, climate impacts and disease. Ben Radford reports.
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The Australian Institute of Criminology has just released a report showing that 33 First Nations people died in prison custody, police custody and custody-related operations and youth detention over 2024–25 — the highest such number since 1979–80. Kerry Smith reports.
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A mass meeting of the Victorian branch of the Community and Public Sector Union drew more than 1500 workers to discuss government recommendations to cut the public service and a campaign against it. Brandon M reports.
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Protesters condemned the threats by United States President Donald Trump and his administration to attack, and perhaps invade, Venezuela. Kerry Smith reports.
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Nearly 100 delegates from two dozen unions and peace organisations discussed the need to build the peace movement and how to go about it. Tim Gooden reports.
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The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party government has prevented United Nations human rights experts from accessing prisons, youth detention centres and police watch houses, reports Kerry Smith.
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Palestinian Australian Shamikh Badra and his brother Majid are determined to campaign to make sure the law against hate crimes applies equally for all sections of the community. Peter Boyle reports.
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Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza, despite the so-called ceasefire and “stage one” of a US-brokered “peace” plan, was the trigger for another national day of action across Australia. Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle, Elizabeth Bantas and Sarah Hathway report.