A man seeking asylum in Australia, who was due to be deported by immigration officials in December, is being held in Villawood detention centre after a protest on December 19 on the plane blocked the deportation. One plane passenger, Steph O鈥橠onnell, said the asylum seeker, Wei Lin, made himself known to passengers on the plane before take-off.
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The National Freedom Movement is planning a second sit-in protest at Parliament House in Canberra when federal parliament resumes on February 9.
Protesters will raise issues, including the large numbers of Aboriginal children being taken from their families and the destruction of homeland communities.
Aboriginal leader Michael Anderson said: 鈥淯nity is how we will achieve anything. We need to come together as nations, support and educate each other on how we take what is ours.鈥
VIGIL FOR BALI NINE HELD
I have decided there鈥檚 no longer any point trying to write these columns while we have a government as truly mad as this one. What鈥檚 the point of trying to think up witty ways to mock this bunch of heartless, cruel, out-of-touch, poor-hating, Tory scum if their leader just wanders about doing bat shit insane things like 鈥渒nighting鈥 Prince Philip?
A 13-day hunger strike by asylum seekers imprisoned by Australia on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, was suspended on January 26 after Wilson鈥檚 Security flew in reinforcement to storm compounds where detainees were on hunger strike.
The hunger strike was in response to plans to move those whose refugee claims had been accepted to a new camp on the island under the guise of releasing them into the community.
This new camp at Lorengau, the Manus provincial capital, differs from the detention centre only in that its inhabitants are more vulnerable to violent attacks by vigilantes.
At least a dozen anti-government protesters were shot dead by Egyptian security forces on the fourth anniversary of the uprising that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak.
More than 15 people were killed in Egypt on January 25 in anti-government protests marking the fourth anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled former dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
The slaughter marks the bloodiest day of protests since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected president in June, with security forces and plain-clothed police officers reportedly firing at demonstrators.
鈥淕reece is turning the page,鈥 SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras told an ecstatic crowd on January 25. The radical left party had just come first in historic elections in Greece with 36.3% of the vote.
鈥淕reece leaves behind the austerity that caused its destruction. It leaves behind fear and intimidation; it leaves behind five years of humiliation and grief. Greece advances with hope, with dignity and steady steps towards a changing Europe.鈥
The news from Greece has spread hope around the world.
The High Court has ruled that Australia's month-long detention of 157 Tamil asylum seekers at sea last year was legal and the asylum seekers were not entitled to claim damages for false imprisonment.
The asylum seekers鈥 boat was intercepted by customs ship Ocean Protector off Christmas Island on June 29, after their boat was damaged by fire and they called for help. The Tamils on board said they feared persecution in Sri Lanka and asked for asylum.
On a blistering hot Sunday in January, a group of Aboriginal activists and allies delivered their impassioned accounts to a captivated crowd at The Block, Redfern. The banners behind them displayed powerful messages: 鈥淛ustice Now! Reopen the TJ Hickey inquest鈥, 鈥淏lack Law on Black Land鈥, and 鈥淵ou may kill our warriors, but you鈥檒l never kill our fight for justice鈥.
One of the pre-election promises of Tony Abbott鈥檚 government was to initiate an inquiry into workplace relations by the Productivity Commission.
But the spectre of former prime minister John Howard鈥檚 WorkChoices, which lost the Coalition the 2007 election and the PM his seat, meant there was no great rush.
The plan was to pave the way for an assault on wages and working conditions by first attacking unions through a Royal Commission specially set-up for the purpose.
KENYAN POLICE FIRE TEAR GAS AT CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND
that Kenyan police fired tear gas into a crowd of schoolchildren in Nairobi as the children protested against what they call an illegal confiscation of a playground.
Around 40 armed police, accompanied by dogs, confronted the children, most of whom were aged between eight and 13.
NSW SHUTS CSG OPERATIONS IN GLOUCESTER The New South Wales government has shut down AGL鈥檚 coal seam gas operations in Gloucester in northern NSW.
Planetary boundaries are those considered crucial to maintaining an environment in which humanity can safely exist.
Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, US climatologist James Hansen and Johan Rockstrom from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, developed an analysis of nine of these boundaries some years ago.
Alongside climate change, they include ocean acidification, ozone depletion, fresh water use, change in land use, biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, atmospheric aerosol loading and the nitrogen and phosphorous cycles.
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