Community and disability workers rallied across the country on October 23 to demand fair wages. Angela Carr reports.
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The Capitol Theatre was packed with people wanting to prevent Victorian Labor from demolishing 44 public housing towers. Darren Saffin reports.
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Frances Cheffin, project manager for What Were You Wearing’s national Move For Them day said the event will be a “massive day of support and celebration, and collective strength”. Mary Merkenich reports.
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Veteran socialist activist and filmmaker Jill Hickson will be missed, but her legacy of powerful films, many of which were made with John Reynolds, live on. Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman reflect on her enormous contribution to creating a better world.
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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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Local councils attitude to the greater presence of nuclear-powered submarines on their doorstep, and to AUKUS more generally, influenced the Western Australian local government elections. Sam Wainwright reports.
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This replacement of affordable housing by luxury apartments is starting, as the Inner West Council tells residents to leave. Jamil Stone and Rachel Evans report.
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Legal experts are calling on NSW Police to drop the charges against 129 climate activists after the Newcastle local court found four protesters not guilty. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has welcomed NSW Labor reaching an in-principle agreement for the Northern Beaches Hospital to become public. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Labor’s new housing policy will allow banks pocket billions in extra interest and saddle a generation with more debt, argues Max Chandler-Mather.
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The LGBTIQ community and their supporters rallied outside Queensland’s Supreme Court, hoping to overturn the Liberal National Party’s ban on trans youth receiving gender-affirming care. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Anti-war protesters took direct action on October 21 in several cities to protest the continuing supply of weapons parts to Israel. Alex Bainbridge reports.