Melbourne punk band The Duvtons have come out of a five-year hiatus to record a catchy new anti-Abbott song to hasten the fall of 鈥渙ur very own idiot鈥.
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Australian NGO has launched legal action in Switzerland against the , based in Geneva.
Julian Assange will stay in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London as long as the United States government continues its case against him for his work on whistleblowing website Wikileaks, his lawyers said on March 19.
The recent development of the Swedish prosecutors agreeing to question Assange over two cases of sexual assault in 2010 within the embassy has led to speculation that he could leave the building, where he has taken refuge for over 1000 days, if the Swedish charges are dropped.
Assange, who has never been charged, has always denied the sexual assault allegations.
Pat Eatock truly deserved the title 鈥渆lder鈥. An elder passes on the lessons of the past to the next generation. This was her biggest activist contribution in the last years of her life.
When then-immigration minister Scott Morrison made a video in September last year callously informing refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru that they would never be allowed to settle in Australia, he hoped at least some would ask to be returned to their home country.
But the video failed spectacularly. Not a single refugee or asylum seeker asked to be returned. Instead, angered by the video, they started a series of protests, hunger strikes, attempted suicides and instances of self-harm.
More than 100 people gathered in a park in Katherine on March 24 to launch the Frack-Free NT Roadshow, a group of pastoralists, traditional owners and environmentalists doing community education and outreach in the Roper and gulf country.
鈥淒own The Abbott Hole鈥
By Zelda Grimshaw
A group of musicians in Cairns, Queensland, have released a song controversially calling for the head of Tony Abbott.
鈥淒own the Abbott Hole鈥 refers to Abbott鈥檚 Australia as a bleak and sterile environment, in which fear reigns over logic, and the atmosphere is 鈥渃old as ice, black as coal鈥. The song can be streamed online and was being played by radio stations all over the country just hours after its release.
When neoliberal economics was being established as a hegemonic position in Australia in the late 1980s, 1.2 million workers were employed in the manufacturing industry 鈥 15% of the workforce.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics鈥 (ABS) latest employment analysis shows that 25,000 jobs were lost in manufacturing last year, bringing the total employed down to 920,000 鈥 7.8% of the workforce.
It is a trend that will only continue with the winding-down of the vehicle production industry and its related vehicle components sector.
Hell-Bent: Australia鈥檚 Leap Into The Great War
Douglas Newton
Scribe, 2014
344 pages, $32.99 (pb)
Behind all the froth, then and now, about the noble cause of World War I 鈥 defence of freedom against German aggression 鈥 lay a far less exalted reality, writes retired University of Western Sydney historian Douglas Newton.
The war鈥檚 鈥済rand plan鈥 for Britain, candidly called 鈥淭he Spoils鈥 by the British Colonial Secretary, was to divvy the world up among the victors.
On March 25 university students and supporters of accessible education participated in National Day of Action rallies against the ongoing attacks on education. There were rallies in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Tasmania and Wollongong.
The Australian Conservation Foundation has released a report titled . It reveals that these 10 polluters 鈥 and it鈥檚 no surprise that most are electricity suppliers - are responsible for generating nearly one-third of greenhouse gases through their production and use of energy.
No McDonald鈥檚 in Tecoma campaigner Richard Pearson was cleared of the charge of 鈥渄efacing a public footpath鈥 by a Melbourne Magistrates Court.
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