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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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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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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A report says the combined revenue of the world’s 100 largest weapons corporations reached a record US$679 billion. Peter Boyle reports.
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A Palestine solidarity activist’s home was attacked in Katoomba. Kerry Smith reports.
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Pro-Palestine community members, including a local basketball coach, shut down the Ferra weapons factory. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Community members protested outside the United States’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — over its role in the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine. Kerry Smith reports.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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Celebrate Palestine South West drew around 200 people to the national day of action protest in early October in Wooditjup/Margaret River. Hannes Nitzsche reports.
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Sydney's Maroubra Beach hosted a poignant and beautiful memorial for the children of Gaza, murdered since October 2023 by the genocidal state of Israel. Judith Treanor reports.
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Protesters are gearing up for a three-day arms bazaar, which will host some of the biggest weapons’ corporations that have profited from two years of genocide in Gaza. Pip Hinman reports.
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Senators Lidia Thorpe and Fatima Payman, who introduced the “Genocide Red Lines Package” in the last parliament, are working on a new version aimed at ensuring Australia meets its obligations under international law to prevent genocide. Alex Bainbridge reports.