麻豆传媒 Weekly spoke to national convener Peter Boyle about the political dynamics of the coming federal election and asked him what sort of campaign the Alliance was intending to run.
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The internet protest group Anonymous launched a cyber-attack to protest the Australian government's proposed 鈥渃lean-feed鈥 internet filter on February 10. A number of government websites temporarily became host to pornographic images.
MELBOURNE 鈥 Eighty people rallied on the morning of February 14 to commemorate the 2004 death of Redfern teenager TJ Hickey and demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody. The crowd observed a minute's silence in memory of TJ, who was killed
while being chased by police. It also expressed its support for TJ's mother, Gail Hickey, who has lodged a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
Elaine Peckham is a Central Arrernte woman who lives on homelands in the West MacDonnell Ranges. She spoke at the Prescribed Area People鈥檚 Alliance meeting in Alice Springs on February 12. The speech below is abridged from text prepared by the Intervention Rollback Action Group .
Newcastle Resistance branch has entered a 鈥渟ign war鈥 against federal Labor MP Sharon Grierson.
SYDNEY 鈥 Six Gaza Freedom March activists presented a moving account of their experiences of trying to get into Gaza late last year at a Stop the War Coalition public meeting on February 15.
The Sydney Morning Herald-sponsored 鈥淚ndependent Public Inquiry鈥 into Sydney鈥檚 public transport released its preliminary report on February 13. The report outlined a 30-year strategy to massively improve Sydney鈥檚 public transport infrastructure.
The picket line outside Xstrata Coal鈥檚 Tahmoor colliery is continuing. It marks a continuation of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union鈥檚 (CFMEU) 17-month struggle to negotiate an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) with Xstrata.
鈥淭he law is an ass鈥, said Mr Bumble, in Charles Dickens鈥 classic, Oliver Twist. And more than 150 people agreed as they rallied yesterday on the same site, six years to the day, where 17-year old Aboriginal boy, TJ Hickey, was impaled on fence in Waterloo.
The struggle for wage justice by workers at the Star City Casino in Sydney continued with strikes on February 11 and Chinese New Year (February 14).
On February 13, a neo-Nazi march through the German city of Dresden was prevented when more than 15,000 locals braved freezing temperatures to oppose them.
Bolivia鈥檚 foreign minister David Choquehuanca said on February 8 that Bolivia is very concerned about the inadequacy of the greenhouse gas reduction commitments made by developed countries in the Copenhagen Accord at the United Nations climate summit in December, PWCCC.wordpress.com said.
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