Nadia Refaei, co-president of Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network, told the recent national day of protest for Palestine that Labor鈥檚 decision to recognise Palestine is an聽an empty gesture, offering the appearance of progress without changing material conditions.
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Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist from Bethlehem University, was a keynote speaker at a forum on the Palestine ecocide. Jim McIlroy reports.
An all-expenses-paid pro-Israel summit marketed to local government office bearers raises concerns about ethics and politics in their local communities.聽Wendy Bacon听补苍诲听Yaakov Aharon听谤别辫辞谤迟.
More than 200,000 people took the streets across the country in a national day of protest to demand Labor sanction Israel and stop the two-way arms trade.
Justice for Palestine has moved its planned protest to Queens Park, Magan-djin/Brisbane, in response to an anti-democratic move by Queensland police.聽Alex Bainbridge聽reports.
The Communication Workers Union led a rally of independent contractors outside Service Stream鈥檚 office in Naarm/Melbourne, protesting the company鈥檚 proposed 20鈥30% rate cuts for subcontractors. Kalindi Salvo Sampson聽reports.
Unions NSW organised a 鈥淯nions for Peace鈥 rally at Town Hall Square on Gadigal Country/Sydney, the first such action it has organised since Israel ramped up its聽genocide in Gaza in October 2023. Jim McIlroy reports.
Indigenous Wamp铆s leader聽Galois Flores Pizango spoke to 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Ben Radford about the struggle to defend territory and advance a vision of sustainable Indigenous development.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has聽urged a national move towards a four-day workweek, in a proposal put to the federal Labor government鈥檚 Economic Reform Roundtable.聽Jim McIlroy聽reports.
Tasmanian unions鈥 bargaining power has dramatically weakened since the 1970s, writes Solomon Doyle, because of the changing nature of traditionally union-strong industries and the impact of anti-worker laws.
Judith Treanor, on behalf of Jews Against the Occupation 鈥48, asked at the Palestine Action Group鈥檚 rally: how it is possible that 22 months into a livestreamed genocide, the world is still debating whether it is even happening?
About 300 people attended a vigil organised by the Sydney Druze community in solidarity with the people of Sweida/Suwayda, Syria, at Martin Place on Gadigal Country/Sydney. Peter Boyle reports.
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