On January 26, more than 500 people marched through Melbourne to mark Invasion Day and to call for an end to black deaths in custody and for justice for Mulrunji, who died in the Palm Island police station in November, 2004. Rally chair Brianna Pike announced at the protest that Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley would be charged with Mulrunji鈥檚 manslaughter.
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鈥淐elebrate what鈥檚 great鈥 was the official theme of this year鈥檚 Australia Day, January 26. But for Aboriginal Australians, what was worth celebrating on the day that marks the brutal British invasion of their land was the decision to charge the police officer Chris Hurley with the manslaughter of Mulrunji Doomadgee.
Thousands of Canadian students and their supporters are expected to protest tuition fee hikes at a national day of action on February 7.
At a meeting in Brazil on April 26, 2006, plans moved ahead between Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil for a major transcontinental oil pipeline. The pipeline would be 10,000 kilometres long and would link the four countries plus Paraguay and Uruguay.
A major victory has been won by the Aboriginal movement in Australia. The Queensland attorney-general鈥檚 department has decided that Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley will be charged with manslaughter over the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee. Mulrunji, an Aboriginal man, died in police custody on Palm Island in 2004.
Prime Minister John Howard鈥檚 January 25 announcement of plans to deal with the water crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin contains some measures that are small steps in the right direction, such as the replacement of open irrigation channels with covered pipes to reduce evaporation.
Annette Peardon was nine years old when she and her brother were forcibly removed from their family on Cape Barren Island. They spent their youth in a series of foster homes and institutions around Tasmania. Last November, Tasmania鈥檚 parliament passed the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Bill 2006, the country鈥檚 first compensation law. 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Susan Austin spoke with Peardon about the significance of this law, and her struggle for justice.
聯The goal of socialism is alive; we have
seen the future in revolutionary Venezuela聰, Australian activists Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy told a public meeting on January 26. The two have recently returned from a year in the capital, Caracas, reporting on events for 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
Debra and Jon Cooley met at the Blundstone boot factory, where they have worked most of their lives. They had just taken out a loan for their dream home when Blundstone announced, on January 16, that it was closing up shop. Three hundred and thirty staff like the Cooleys, and Jade Archer and his partner, who are too old to start apprenticeships, now face an uncertain future as their skills are made redundant.
An anti-nuclear Peace Parade and Festival is being planned for Palm Sunday in Melbourne.
Al Gore鈥檚 film An Inconvenient Truth has helped dramatise the enormity of the global environmental crisis. The scale of the threat posed by industrially induced global warming, and the short time in which to take meaningful action to prevent catastrophic consequences, makes the question of how to combat global warming arguably the most urgent one facing humanity.
A 聯freedom ride聰 from Sydney to Canberra will be held on March 25 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Howard government聮s overturning of the Northern Territory聮s voluntary euthanasia law, the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (ROTI).
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