Police on horseback and riot officers violently broke up a student protest in Melbourne on October 30. The demonstration was held to oppose federal government threats to higher education, and was part of a national week of student action, called by the National Union of Students.
Just two days before the protest, education minister Christopher Pyne told the ABC鈥檚 Q&A the government was investigating the possibility of selling off student HECS debt to private companies.
987
Comedian, Hollywood star and former host of MTV and Big Brother's Big Mouth Russell Brand in a Newsnight interview subsequently viewed millions of times on YouTube.
The journalist, veteran of many bruising encounters with politicians of all stripes, decisively lost.
The Country Liberal government of the Northern Territory announced on October 26 it was extending a reservation over Darwin鈥檚 rural area to 鈥減rotect rural and rural-residential areas of the Greater Darwin region .
鈥淲hilst the Country Liberal government is open for business, we know it is not practical to have oil and gas development in the middle of the Greater Darwin Region鈥, said mines and energy minister Willem Westra van Holthe.
Reclaim The Night has a proud international history as an annual protest of women and their supporters demanding an end to violence against women, and to the sexism and misogyny that underpin it. As shown by a 2012 globally focused study by US political scientists Mala Htun and S. Laurel Weldon, a key factor in reducing violence against women is strong feminist movements.
The ANZ announced a full-year cash profit of $6.5 billion on October 29.
Two days later, the NAB posted a profit that was not quite so big. It had only managed $5.94 billion in the year to September.
Banks make their profits in a number of ways. One is a sort of bankers鈥 version of two-up, betting on foreign exchange rates. This is the world鈥檚 largest market.
Reserve Bank of Australia figures for April put the average Australian foreign exchange turnover at US$181.7 billion a day.
Despite a Victorian state moratorium since last year barring the use of 鈥渇racking鈥 (hydraulic fracturing) to extract gas, communities across the state continue to protest against gas drilling and exploration.
Sixty locals protested at a test drilling site in Yarragon in Gippsland, east of Melbourne, on October 19, where Greenpower Natural Gas holds a licence to explore for coal seam gas (CSG). The moratorium on fracking does not prevent exploration works such as drilling and flaring off.
Multi-lingual multi-instrumentalist Pat Marks fronts the multi-faceted Melbourne band Pataphysics. As the "guerilla hip-hop" outfit prepare to launch their new EP, 麻豆传媒 Weekly's Mat Ward spoke to Marks about his multifarious pursuits, from refugee rights to juvenile justice.
Several thousands of people marched and rallied in the United States鈥 capital on October 26 in protest against the mass surveillance of almost all Americans and hundreds of millions of citizens of other countries.
The huge Big Brother program, conducted by the US National Security Agency (NSA), has been exposed by Edward Snowdon, considered a hero by those demonstrating.
Beginning in May last, Snowden鈥檚 trove of revelations keeps coming through releases by Glenn Greenwald in the British Guardian.
鈥橳hank you鈥
The Big Truck That Went By, How the World Came to Save Haiti and left Behind a Disaster
By Jonathan M. Katz
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
282 pp., $24.95
On January 12, 2010, Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, was devastated by a huge earthquake.
Death toll estimates range from between 100,000 to more than 300,000. Nobody really knows, because Haiti was poorly governed beforehand and virtually taken over by foreign governments and non-government organisations (NGOs) afterwards.
I was introduced to Gazan hip-hop act Revolution Makers when I saw them perform in Gaza City during PalFest in May.
Recently, Mamamia editor Mia Freedman wrote railing against Kim Kardashian. While by no means do I hold Kardashian up as a demonstration of feminism, I think that Freedman has this wrong, very wrong.
From the title 鈥淎re you a mother or a porn star?鈥, which degrades the ability of women who work in the porn industry to be effective parents, Freedman projects some extremely backward views on motherhood, sexuality and body image.
A details genocide against the indigenous people of West Papua carried out by the Indonesian government, which has occupied the territory since the 1960s.
The report, 鈥淎 slow-motion genocide: Indonesian rule in West Papua鈥, was written by Dr Jim Elmslie and Dr Camellia Webb-Gannon, both visiting scholars at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University. It was published in the Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity.
- Previous page
- Page 3