This statement was released by Billy Gordon on April 8.
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Last week I resigned from the Australian Labor Party. I will not resign from parliament.
My decision is based on advice from the clerk of parliament, who gave detailed reasons why I did not have to resign over past events and allegations. I am also determined to honour my commitments to my constituents.
During the election campaign I committed to tackling entrenched social and economic problems in Cook and helping communities seize economic development opportunities.
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The far right Islamophobic 鈥淩eclaim Australia鈥 movement burst onto the streets in what was the biggest racist mobilisation since the Cronulla riots, in 16 places across Australia on April 4.
Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) released this statement on April 8.
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On Saturday, Reclaim Australia were held rallies across the country.
These rallies promoted messages of racism, hatred and oppression. Participants were draped in the Australian flag, were covered in swastika tattoos and carried banners with dehumanising messages.
Sydney Staff for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions sent this open letter to University of Sydney vice-chancellor Michael Spence on March 25. The letter is in response to Spence鈥檚 email of March 19, in which he claimed anti-Semitism was the trigger for the university鈥檚 investigation into the student protest at the March 11 lecture by Colonel Richard Kemp and its sequel.
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We are compelled to write to you to register our serious concern about the concerted campaign being conducted against Palestine activists at the University of Sydney.
Ten years ago, the uranium price was on an upward swing. South Australians were dazzled by the prospect of becoming the 'Saudi Arabia of the South' because of the state's large uranium deposits and the prospect of a global nuclear power renaissance.
Those comparisons didn't stand up to a moment's scrutiny 鈥 Australia would need to over to match Saudi oil revenue.
Two thousand people rallied in Federation Square on April 4 to oppose Reclaim Australia freely spreading racism and fascism on the streets of Melbourne.
At a G20 meeting last October, Rupert Murdoch surprised some with a speech that criticised world leaders for, as it was described in his Australian newspaper, 鈥渢heir policies [that] have caused a 鈥榤assive shift鈥 in societies to benefit the super-rich with a legacy of social polarisation鈥.
In particular, Murdoch criticised youth unemployment: 鈥淭he unemployment rate for Americans under the age of 25 is 13%, which sounds awful until I remember that in the eurozone that number is 23%, and it is twice as high in places like Spain and Greece, and parts of France and Italy.
David Pocock is a rugby player in the Australian national rugby union team. He was also recently arrested. In reacting to his arrest and the reason for it, some have suggested that Pocock may not be the right man to captain the Wallabies in the future.
ADELAIDE
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BRISBANE
This speech was given at the Refugee Action Collective protest in Melbourne on April 8.
Why would a 54 year-old woman make a decision to lock herself onto the train tracks of the world鈥檚 biggest coal port? Annette Schneider, an artist and farmer from Monaro in NSW, explained to 麻豆传媒 Weekly that her action on March 31 was a direct result of her fear of catastrophic climate change.
Former workers from the Nauru detention centre say the Australian government has 鈥渢olerated the physical and sexual assault of children, and the sexual harassment and assault of vulnerable women in the centre for more than 17 months鈥.
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