Oro
Written & directed by Alvin Yapan
Feliz Film Productions, 2016
Oro, the Filipino film written and directed by Alvin Yapan released in December, is based on the 2014 murder of four small-scale miners in Sitio, Lahuy.
For 20 years, Elmer (Joem Bascon) and his men have freely mined in the tiny but gold-rich island of Lahuy Island in the town of Caramoan in Bicol.
First Nations-led water protectors have called for mass protests after the US Army Corps of Engineers granted the final approval on February 7 for Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) to resume building the widely opposed Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL).
The approval came after President Donald Trump overturned an Obama administration order to halt construction under Lake Oahe, a large reservoir connected to the Missouri River that provides water to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota.
Time to Draw the Line
Directed by Amanda King & Fabio Cavadini
2016, 58 minutes
A new documentary examines the largely overlooked story of the dispute between Australia and its near neighbour 鈥 the new state of East Timor.
In an article for The Conversation, Daryl Adair, a professor of Sport Management at the University of Technology, Sydney, makes a pertinent observation regarding the interaction between sport and politics: 鈥淚t is sometimes said that sport ought to be separate from politics, or that politics should be removed from sport. These sentiments are well meaning 鈥 if idealistic.鈥
English singer unveiled a haunting cover of 's 2007 song along with a stark video of her performance of the track at the against Donald Trump in London on January 21,
The family of TJ Hickey is still being denied justice, 13 years since the 17-year-old died after being impaled on a fence in Waterloo during a police chase.
The refusal by successive NSW governments to bring the police officers responsible to court 鈥 and allow the family some closure 鈥 is testimony to the endemic racism First Nations people have to endure.
NSW police refuse to concede their officers were responsible for Thomas James Hickey鈥檚 death. They claim it was an accident.聽
As economists debate whether this year will be economically better or worse for Australia, one thing is certain: we will all get screwed even more this year.
Last week, issued its survey of 27 leading economists from financial institutions, academia and consultancies.
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Grassroots voices express support the the on Thurs 16 February (5pm, Thurs 16 Feb, Speakers Corner - near Parliament House).