To mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on April 30, US rapper Marcel Cartier released the track "The Guns Of The Viet Minh".
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A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found Venezuela cut its military budget by 34% last year, leading the region in arms spending cuts. In contrast, United States political allies Paraguay and Mexico led the region in upping military spending, raising military budgets by 13% and 11%, respectively.
Stop the Intervention Collective (STICS) held a forum last month to update participants on the NT Intervention.
Dr Shelley Bielefeld, lecturer in law at UWS, visiting scholar at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at UTS and the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at ANU, spoke at the forum. Afterwards she spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
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How does the government justify the Intervention?
Activists, students and academic staff met at the University of Sydney on April 29 to discuss the university鈥檚 recent attacks on those involved in a protest against a lecture given by an Israeli colonel on March 11.
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From Darwin to Hobart, Sydney to Perth and all points in between, thousands of people marched in rallies across Australia on May 1 to stop the Western Australian government closing 150 remote Aboriginal communities.
For most teenagers, starting high school triggers mixed emotions 鈥 nervousness, excitement, a sense of adventure. Adolescence is a critical period in everyone鈥檚 life.
This is especially true for LGBTI youth. In the process of coming to terms with our sexuality and gender identity, we must also navigate the hardships that come with existing in a society that overwhelmingly neither accepts nor accommodates us.
In a period of so-called 鈥渂udget emergency鈥 when deep funding cuts are being imposed on universities and scientific research, the federal government has managed to find $4 million for a 鈥渃onsensus centre鈥 headed by advocate for climate inaction Bj酶rn Lomborg.
The $13 million centre will form part of the University of Western Australia鈥檚 (UWA) business school, with the Commonwealth contributing $4 million over four years.
In the AFL鈥檚 nationalistic carnival, the Anzac Round, the Melbourne Demons and Richmond Tigers were lining up for their game on April 24. One of the Tigers players Bachar Houli, is one of the AFL鈥檚 鈥渕ulticultural ambassadors鈥.
He is also the first practicing Muslim to play in the AFL.
Elsewhere, Houli was being described quite differently. John Burns, radio broadcaster for Melbourne鈥檚 3AW was reported to have labelled him a 鈥渢errorist鈥. The comment was overheard at a Richmond Football Club function by a senior club staffer and subsequently reported.
Residents of Bentley, near Lismore in the NSW Northern Rivers district, have vowed to continue their fight against coal seam gas (CSG) mining following the Supreme Court鈥檚 鈥渢echnical鈥 decision to overturn the government鈥檚 suspension of Metgasco鈥檚 gas drilling licence.
Proceedings in the Queensland Land and Environment Court concerning the objection by conservation group Land Services of Coast and Country (LSCC) to the Adani Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin are drawing to a close.
LSCC鈥檚 objection to the mine is based on the claim that it poses an unacceptable danger to climate change, groundwater, the Great Barrier Reef and the endangered black-throated finch.
An irony of the sacking of SBS sports journalist Scott McIntyre for a series of tweets he made on Anzac Day is that the hysterical reaction from politicians and the media, and the consequences he has faced, has only served to prove his initial point.
Anzac Day is not about remembering history. To remember what actually happened at Gallipoli 100 years ago, and in Australia鈥檚 involvement in wars more generally, is not permissible. Whatever the Anzacs fought and died for, it was not free speech.
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