As Ireland prepares for its referendum today, May 25, on repealing the聽constitutional amendment prohibiting free, safe, legal abortion, women and health workers in Rojava, the largely Kurdish area in Syria's north,聽have expressed their solidarity with Irish women鈥檚 right to choose.
With the exception of the Vatican state and Malta, Ireland has the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. It exceeds Saudi Arabia and Qatar in its restrictions on women鈥檚 rights to basic reproductive health.
Unions have condemned the federal government's decision to cut a further $84 million from funding for the ABC in the federal budget announced on May 8.
The budget confirmed the government has frozen the indexation of ABC funding to effectively cut that amount over three years. These latest cuts come on top of the $254 million the Coalition government has already removed from the ABC's revenue since 2014.
Even before Venezuela鈥檚 May 20 presidential vote had taken place, the United States 鈥攈eaded by a president who lost the popular vote in an electoral system that systematically disenfranchises millions of poor and non-white voters 鈥 rejected the elections as 鈥渘either free nor fair鈥.
The Lima Group, a coalition of 13 right-wing Latin American countries plus Canada, also refused to recognise the results. Among its members are:
I鈥檓 late commenting on the royal wedding due to having to recover from a drinking game I invented for the spectacle: you had to take a shot each time you see a parasite. Here鈥檚 a tip for anyone wanting to try this game next time: best play it in the emergency department of your local hospital to save time.
Climate change is 鈥渁 current and existential national security risk鈥, according to a . It says an existential risk is 鈥渙ne that threatens the premature extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life or the permanent and drastic destruction of its potential for desirable future development鈥. These are strong words.
In recent days, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have once again been ratcheting up their clash of the colonisers, writes Marcel Cartier.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who took office in February from Jacob Zuma, is facing a rebellion within the union movement over proposed changes to the labour laws.
How did Murray Goulburn, once Australia鈥檚 biggest milk processor and a successful dairy cooperative since 1950, end up being sold to its international competitor, Canadian dairy giant Saputo? In the final part of this series (read), Elena Garcia provides some answers. [You can also read part one, two and three.]
Despite the profitability of the Australian dairy industry and its claims to support 鈥渋nnovation" and "jobs and growth鈥, the federal government refused to step in and help Murray Goulburn expand into untapped Asian markets.
Hundreds of people linked hands on the shores of Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Newcastle and many other coastal towns across Australia on May 19 to call on Norwegian oil giant Statoil-Equinor to drop its plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight.
The event was organised by the Great Australian Bight Alliance, a convergence of 13 conservation groups, including The Wilderness Society, Sea Shepherd Australia, Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network, Australian Marine Conservation Society, Conservation Council South Australia and First Nations Mirning and Kokatha elders.
聽has formally requested that the聽聽prosecutor investigate the targeting of journalists in Gaza as war crimes.
Yousef Al-Helou is a British-based journalist from Gaza city who has worked with Al Araby TV Network. He currently manages . Al-Helou sent the below greetings to a screening the Palestinian film The Wanted 18 in Geelong organised by Socialist Alliance on May 18.
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The federal government's National Energy Guarantee (NEG) policy, which was announced last year, was given provisional approval by state governments at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in April, subject to further negotiation on details, including the emissions targets. What does this mean for renewable energy and climate action, key issues affected by Australia's coal-dominated electricity grid?