PEN America reported on April 24 that authoritarian regimes around the world jailed more journalists and writers last year than ever before, writes Julia Conley.
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Abortion rights activists rallied in Martin Place to support NSW Greens MLC Dr Amanda Cohen’s bill to make abortion more accessible to regional and remote communities across New South Wales. Zebedee Parkes reports.
Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance candidate for the NSW Senate, joins the Â鶹´«Ã½ Show to discuss the result of the May 3 federal election, in which Labor won a landslide victory after a disastrous result for Peter Dutton and the Coalition.
Nala Mansell, spokesperson for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, has demanded the Tasmanian government immediately close the Ashley Youth Detention in Deloraine. Kerry Smith reports.
Novelist, filmmaker and academic Tracy Sorensen, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014, passed away on May 5.ÌýNeville Spencer writes about her life, which included a strong focus on social justice.Ìý
Labor has secured a second term, with a landslide victory, but unless unions, social and community movements organise for real change, it will continue to bend to the will of the billionaire class, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Isaac Nellist.Ìý
Thousands of trade unionists went on strike and marched to New South Wales parliament on May Day, International Workers’ Day, to remind Labor of its need to provide safe working conditions and better pay. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Australia’s undemocratic voting system works to funnel small parties’ preferences to the Coalition and Labor. Zane Alcorn argues that aÌýproportional voting system in the House of Representatives would be more democratic.
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WhenÌýIstanbul Mayor Ekrem Ä°mamoÄŸlu was detained by the Turkish state, the country was rocked by its largest protests in a decade, which, despite a violent crackdown, have only grown more creative and resilient, writesÌýEla Buruk.
The anti-union Coalition wants to attack workers’ rights and conditions, but Labor’s attack on the Construction Forestry and Maritime Employees Union shows it is no friend to workers, argues Isaac Nellist.
The re-election of far-right President Daniel Noboa has prompted allegations of electoral fraud and calls to publish the full results, reports Ben Radford.
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