I believe we鈥檙e going to win this postal survey and, probably after some period of delay from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, we will win marriage equality too.
And when we do, Turnbull is going to want us to remember him as the prime minister who gave us marriage equality.
So let鈥檚 put something on the record: This community was never given anything by Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition.
A hydroelectric company that environmental activist Berta Caceres had fought, plotted with Honduran military and security forces to kill the Indigenous leader in March 2016, an independent commission has found.
The investigation was carried out by the International Group of Advisors and Expert Persons (GAIPE), comprised of several lawyers from Guatemala, Colombia, Holland and the United States. Its findings were based on dozens of interviews, court records and partial access to evidence provided by government investigators.
The first LGBTQI rights march in Parramatta since 1983 was held on October 29.
It attracted more than 200 people to Centennial Square outside the Parramatta Town Hall before marching to the annual Parramatta Pride Picnic on the River Foreshore.
The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the first socialist revolution in world history, was marked on October 25 鈥 the date the Bolsheviks led the revolutionary seizure of power by the soviets (elected councils of workers, peasants and soldiers).
Angered by the latest round of cuts, staff at Victoria University (VU) held a protest outside a university council meeting on November 2.
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) national president Jeannie Rea told protesters she had worked at VU for 20 years. She said that more than 100 people have lost their jobs at VU this year, with another round of redundancies still to come.
The results of the 2017 City of Greater Geelong Council elections have been declared, with Greens candidate Sarah Mansfield being聽elected in Brownbill Ward.
Mansfield won聽more than 17% of the primary vote. Her聽election was aided by a strong preference flow from residents who voted for Socialist Alliance (SA) candidates Sue Bull and Sarah Hathway.
Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain鈥檚 National High Court 鈥 direct descendant of the fascist Franco-era Court of Public Order 鈥 took the war of the Spanish state against the Catalan pro-independence government to a new level of judicial violence on November 2.
The Socialist Alliance is running in the November 25 Queensland state elections to help build an anti-capitalist alternative to the two-party system. We are also supporting the re-election of progressive independent MP Rob Pyne in Cairns and calling for a vote for the Greens in other seats.
A concerted campaign to stop Gloucester Resources Limited鈥檚 open-cut coalmine on agricultural land in Gloucester has been rewarded. The NSW Department of Planning and the Environment recommended on October 23 that GRL鈥檚 Rocky Hill mine not be given approval.聽
New Zealand Labour leader Jacinda Ardern, who says capitalism has been a 鈥渂latant failure鈥, became the country鈥檚 new, and youngest ever, prime minister on October 19.
Asked a few days after becoming PM if capitalism had failed New Zealanders, 37-year-old Ardern responded: 鈥淚f you have hundreds of thousands of children living in homes without enough to survive, that鈥檚 a blatant failure. What else could you describe it as?鈥
Victoria became the first state to have a Renewable Energy Target (RET) written into law on October 20. The Victorian RET has been set at 25% renewable energy by 2020, and 40% by 2025.
Writing in the October 28 New York Times, conservative columnist David Brooks said the preceding week was 鈥渨hen Donald Trump and Steve Bannon solidified their grip on the Republican Party and America鈥檚 national government鈥.
Brooks speaks for the Republican establishment 鈥 and sorely deplores this development.