Farmers, businessmen and Traditional Owners from north-west NSW travelled to Adelaide on May 3 to tell Santos and its shareholders at the company AGM it will face a rural uprising if it proceeds with the Narrabri coal seam gasfield.
They were joined by South Australian locals who oppose Santos鈥檚 plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, telling Santos it has 鈥淣o Licence to Drill鈥 because these projects do not have community support.
Emma Wilde Botta听looks at US President Donald Trump鈥檚 latest effort to 鈥渂reak the regime鈥 in Iran 鈥 by renouncing the nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor.
Donald Trump鈥檚 announcement that the US will withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose economic sanctions will intensify geopolitical conflicts in the region. It threatens to spark a wider war, engulfing the region and possibly the world.
British听team听Leeds United FC is under fire after announcing late last month plans to tour听Myanmar听despite the mounting allegations of human rights abuses and 鈥渆thnic cleansing鈥 in the country.
The club revealed its two final post-season games would be in the Myanmar cities of听Yangon听and听Mandalay. The tour will be听sponsored by a bank that has been linked to the government and, consequently, the hundreds of thousands human rights听abuses reported by refugee听Rohingya听Muslims.
A group of young听Palestinians听in听Gaza听has founded 鈥淭he Crutches鈥:听the first听football (soccer) team听for听amputees听injured during the last three听Israeli听attacks on the besieged territory.
Palestinian civil society groups have accused听Giro d鈥橧talia听cycling race, which started its first leg听in Israel on May 4, of covering up Israel鈥檚 war crimes in Gaza and its secret police鈥檚 repression against Giro protests, said Kerry Smith.
Staff and employers of the Murdoch University Student Guild have reached an in-principle agreement in the latest round of bargaining after four weeks of negotiations.
Despite the short time frame, the negotiation team for the workers, which constituted an NTEU Industrial Officer and two Murdoch Guild staff members, were able to keep members in the loop throughout the entire process.
Staff and students at James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville and Cairns have refused to accept course and job cuts proposed by the university鈥檚 management.
The highlight of the campaign was a 120-strong student-led rally on April 30 at the Cairns campus, the largest student protest action in more than a decade at JCU. Students also joined the community protests called by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) branch on April 27.
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More than 50 people attended the annual May Day Dinner held in Geelong on May 5. Speakers at the dinner included Maritime Union of Australia women鈥檚 liaison officer Mich-Elle Myers and Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association secretary Craig McGregor. Former Secretary of Geelong Trades Hall Council (GTHC) Tim Gooden also gave a toast to 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
91自拍论坛 Weekly asked Myers and McGregor, as well as current GTHC secretary Colin Vernon, why it is important to celebrate May Day.
Palestinians in Gaza have defied deadly Israeli repression to continue their Great March of Return protests into their sixth week, writes Lisa Gleeson.
Protracted restrictions on the human rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association are incompatible with the conduct of a credible electoral process in Turkey, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra鈥檃d Al Hussein said on May 9.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an said in a May 8 speech: 鈥淚f one day our nation says tamam (enough), only then will we step aside.鈥 In response, millions of people posted tweets featuring the word 鈥渢amam鈥.
There were more than 1.8 million posts including the word 鈥渢amam鈥, while different versions/spellings of the word were also popular. The hashtag #devam (鈥渃ontinue鈥) started by pro-Erdo臒an groups immediately after lagged behind at 300,000 posts.
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