It was always ambitious to try and overhaul WA’s biggest union in one electionÌýand Team Fenn did well considering the incumbent’s resources. Chris Jenkins reports.
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A rank-and-file ticket is contesting executive and council positions in the WAÌýbranch of the Australian Nursing Federation in late October. Chris Jenkins, who is part of it,Ìýreports.
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Activists were treated to an early-morning raidÌýby an anti-terrorist outift forÌýchalking a protest sign against oil and gas giant Woodside Energy, reports ChrisÌýJenkins.
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It is clear the federal government has badly mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic, with doctors now warningÌýAustralia is on track to be in a "worse position than Italy is currently in". But humane alternatives are possible, arguesÌýChris Jenkins.
As people were fleeing their burning homes and volunteer firefighters were crowdfunding basic supplies in December, Australia’s Pentecostal Prime Minister was busy working on safeguarding the rights of a handful of bigoted institutions to discriminate, writes Chris Jenkins.
The Traditional Owners of the Tjiwarl native title claim lost their Supreme Court appeal to have the approval for the Yeelirrie uranium mine revoked on July 31.
It’s a strange thing, scrolling through the options on Netflix and seeing a documentary on the Miami Showband.
On March 15, students organised the biggest global strike for real action on climate change ever seen. More than 80 countries took part. In Perth, 3000 students and supporters marched through the CBD, joining an estimated 150,000 people around the country. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly’s Chris Jenkins caught up with Mandurah high school student and protest organiser Chaela King about the strike and what is being planned next.
An online crowdfunding campaignÌýset up to help Aboriginal women in Western AustraliaÌýavoid jail for unpaid fines has raisedÌý$230,000 in its first four days and already settled the debts of 30 imprisoned women, with another 50 expected to be free in coming weeks.
The Western Australian Labor governmentÌýannounced it is opening up 5.2 million hectares — an area roughly the size of 75% of Tasmania — to potential fracking operations on November 27.
Noongar elders, activists and supporters marched through Perth CBD on November 8 in opposition to the planned sale of Native Title by the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC) to the Labor state government.
Anti-poverty campaigners braved the rain on October 13 to march through Perth's CBD, calling for an immediate rise of the Newstart allowance, social housing and an end to welfare drug testing and income quarantining. The protest was part of Anti-Poverty Week events being held around the country until October 20.
This is the second year in a row that the Rally Against Poverty has been organised by the newly-formed Anti-Poverty Network (APN) Perth.
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