Muruwari and Budjiti man Bruce Shillingsworth appeared on the ABC鈥檚 Q&A program on October 28, but not as a panellist. He was allowed to be a part of the audience, but only after what he described as a 鈥渟truggle鈥. The show, ostensibly about 鈥溾, did not include a single First Nations activist.
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Treasury says the economy is performing 鈥渕odestly鈥, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has dismissed calls for additional stimulus spending & Reserve Bank of Australia chief Philip Lowe predicts growth will return to 鈥渢rend鈥 over the next year.
So nothing to worry about, right?
In 2011, retired British lawyer Rupert Grey and his wife Jan set off on a driving tour of India 鈥 in a 1936 Rolls Royce that he had inherited from his father.聽Filmmaker Oliver McGarvey tagged along for the six-month journey across mountains, deserts, through civil war zones and bureaucratic snafus.
Victorian Police have used maximum aggression to try and prevent activists taking non-violent direct action outside a major mining conference on October 29.
"Art is a weapon in the People's fight" declared an advert for a 1940 production of the play Women by the left-wing Workers Art Guild (WAG) that was active in Perth from 1935 to 1942.
Blinded by the Light is a coming-of-age film set in 1980s Britain during the era of Margaret Thatcher. It revolves around the trials and tribulations of 16-year-old Pakistani teenager Javed as he struggles to deal with his domineering and traditional Pakistani family, racism and Thatcher's聽neoliberal assaults.
David Attenborough: It鈥檚 amazing, the discoveries made in my lifetime. Have you heard of聽hox听驳别苍别蝉?
Andrew Denton: No. (Then didn鈥檛 pursue the matter.) [From an interview a few years ago.]
Bolivian president Evo Morales, whose government has overseen improving living standards and a dramatic reduction in poverty while in power, has been re-elected. This is yet another blow for the ongoing United States campaign to get rid of left-of-centre governments in Latin America and boost their austerity-supporting opponents.
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Or, to be more precise, the border guards opened the gates and allowed crowds from East Berlin to cross into the west. People celebrated by climbing onto the wall and dancing.
The fall of the wall was widely seen as a victory for freedom. But things are not that simple.
In the three decades since 1989, new walls have gone up, and existing walls and other barriers to the free movement of people have been strengthened, in many parts of the world.
Twenty-five thousand Chicago public school teachers, supported by other school workers, went on strike on October 17.聽Their demands were broad in scope, reflecting the demographics of the city.
The population of Chicago is almost equally divided between Blacks, Latinx, and whites. However, its public school student population is 47% Latinx, 37% Black, and 10% white. About 76% are economically disadvantaged and concentrated in the city鈥檚 south and west sides. The north side is more white and affluent.
Martin Monath is one of the great, though barely known heroes of World War II. A German-Jewish Marxist, he fled the Nazis and operated underground, first in Belgium and then in France.
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