Tasmanian Police have discontinued their prosecution of former Greens leader Bob Brown, who was arrested earlier this year under controversial anti-protest laws which he went on to challenge in the High Court.
Brown was arrested in January for standing in the way of bulldozers primed to clear forest at Lapoinya, in north west Tasmania.
He was one of the first to be charged under the Workplaces (Protection from Protestors) Act 2014.
The law is part of a controversial series of legislation, which aims at deterring protests that interrupt businesses' activities.
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A community assembly as part of a communal council in Caracas. Photo by Rachael Boothroyd Rojas/Venezuela Analysis.
Leading Marxist author Michael Lebowitz spent six years (2004-2010) in Venezuela working as a director of the program for Transformative Practice and Human Development at the Miranda International Centre (CIM) in Caracas. There, he had the chance to take part in the building of socialism for the 21st century.
Veteran British director Ken Loach has won his second Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for I, Daniel Blake. The film is a warm and realistic drama about a middle-aged widower who, after a heart attack, can neither work nor get benefits.
Anti-coup protesters on the streets of Rio de Janeiro in April.
In what has been widely condemned as a US-backed right-wing power grab to impose harsh neoliberal measures, Brazil鈥檚 Workers鈥 Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff was forced to stand aside by Brazil鈥檚 Senate on May 12 while she faces impeachment procedures.
Two weeks into a protracted election campaign, it is looking ever-more likely that climate change is to be placed way down the order of business 鈥 at least for the major parties.
The contest over climate change that characterised the previous three federal elections seems to have disappeared despite the issue being more urgent than ever.
Striking French workers demonstrating in in Marseille on May 26.
Mass strikes and protests continued to rock France on May 26 as trade unionists ramped up their campaign against hated new labour laws.
A new Climate Council report card on the renewable energy progress of Australia's states and territories finds South Australia and the ACT are topping the class.
NSW received the worst grade due to its low and falling percentage of renewable energy, no renewable energy target and low levels of rooftop solar.
Portuguese politics is in limbo. It has been since elections last October failed to give any party an outright majority.
The Socialist Party (PS) was eventually able to form a minority government after forming an agreement with forces to its left: the Left Bloc, the Portuguese Communist Party and the Greens.
The good news is that this limbo, the thin ice on which this agreement is skating, also presents an opportunity for the left to engage in clear and clean politics with room for actual negotiation.
About 100 members of Fair Go for Pensioners (FGFP) rallied in Melbourne on May 25 to call on political parties to reverse severe funding cuts to welfare, health and education in the federal budget which will condemn more pensioners and low-income families to living below the poverty line.
FGFP president Roger Wilson said the budget focus on giving the business sector generous tax cuts came at the expense of slashing services for the most vulnerable 鈥 pensioners, low-income families, the unemployed and those fearing homelessness.
The Victorian branch of the Country Women's Association (CWA) has voted in support of marriage equality at their latest conference.
The CWA's decision contrasts with its conservative image and defies stereotypes of rural communities as being less accepting of LGBTIQ people.
The motion was titled "That the CWA of Victoria Inc advocates for equality for all Australians under the Commonwealth Marriage Act".
La Trobe University has become the first university in Australia to commit to full divestment from fossil fuel companies.
Vice-chancellor John Dewar said that over the next five years, La Trobe will 鈥渄ivest from the top 200 publicly-traded fossil fuel companies ranked by the carbon content of their fossil fuel reserves.鈥
He said the University was also committed to transparency and 鈥淎ccordingly, we will also disclose the carbon exposure of our investments and provide annual reports of our divestment progress over the next five years鈥.
The overthrow of Brazil鈥檚 President Dilma Rousseff in an institutional coup by right-wing forces has been justified by allegations of corruption 鈥 even though issue Dilma is being impeached on is use of a relatively normal government spending mechanism.
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