Australia

A vigil mourning the murders of several sex workers demanded full decriminalisation so that sex workers have control over their workplace conditions. Jacob Andrewartha reports. 

With Fox News raking in viewer numbers, seizing some 70% of the market in November, Rupert Murdoch is keen to ensure the profits continue to roll in by entrusting Lachlan Murdoch full control. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Outgoing United States President Joe Biden has a chance to make history of the right sort by pardoning WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Protesters rallied against Israel’s genocide in Gaza for the 62nd week in a row, defying Jillian Segal’s call for rallies to be banned. Peter Boyle and Adam Bremner report. 

Construction workers protested outside the Fair Work Commission to demand that Esther Van Arend, a former Construction, Forestry Maritime and Employees Union health and safety organiser who had been unfairly sacked by the CFMEU administrator, be reinstated. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

Amnesty International Australia, rights organisations and pro-Palestine solidarity organisers have criticised the NSW Premier’s call to ban Palestine protests outside places of worship. Pip Hinman reports.

 

Climate campaigner, unionist and Socialist Alliance member Zane Alcorn is a guest on the latest Green Left Show to discuss the People’s Blockade of the world’s largest coal port.

Protesters made their opposition known as the new City of Greater Geelong Council pushed to undo the former council decision, made with First Nations peoples’ support, not to recognise January 26 as “Australia Day”, reports Angela Carr.

Speakers told a rally that gendered violence is a “national emergency” and called on government institutions “to treat it as such”. Kerry Smith reports.

 

Suzanne James talks to Dying With Dignity Victoria president Jane Morris about defending the important right of end-of-life choice through voluntary assisted dying laws.

A Katoomba showing of The Last Sky, a documentary made by Rihab Charida and Nicholas Hanna, raised $400 for Palestinian refugees. Jessica Steele reports.

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Veteran journalist and best-selling author TJ English tells the life story of Augusto Guillermo “Willy” Falcon, who grew his Florida-based gang Los Muchachos (The Boys) into a major international drug-smuggling operation netting profits in the billions. Bill Nevins reviews.