When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought asylum on June 19, the question many supporters asked was: 鈥淲hy the Ecuadorian embassy?鈥
The simple answer is because the Ecuadorian government has been one of the strongest supporters of WikiLeaks, which reflects its strong stance in defence of media and information freedom.
Much has been made in the media about supposed abuses of media freedom in Ecuador.
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On June 16, 2012, an all-female line-up of artists put on a Sydney gig to raise funds for women prisoners after funding for the charity Sisters Inside was cut by the Liberal state government in Queensland.
Austin Mackell, an Australian journalist based in Cairo who has reported on the Egyptian revolution, speaks about his arrest by the regime, and Egyptian politics around the elections.
The released the statement below on June 20.
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As Julian Assange seeks political asylum in Ecuador, concerned Australian citizens on Thursday, June 21.
Global Friends of WikiLeaks is an independent collective of WikiLeaks supporters. It is not affiliated with WikiLeaks. The letter below was originally on June 20. You can sign an in support of Julian Assange's extradition request.
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Members of Amnesty International Australia鈥檚 Tasmania City Group dressed as bananas and collected signatures on a global petition to help launch Amnesty鈥檚 Arms Trade Treaty campaign on June 16 at the Salamanca markets in Hobart.
There is no international standard to regulate the global trade and transfers of conventional arms.
Amnesty Tasmania City Group鈥檚 Yabbo Thompson said: 鈥淭here are complicated rules on the international trade of many products, such as bananas, but no global treaty controlling weapons or bullets.
Over 2000 people marched in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide to protest twenty years of mandatory detention and to mark World Refugee Day on the weekend of June 16-17.
BORDERS
Rivers don鈥檛 interrupt their flow
at national borders.
Mountain ranges don鈥檛 answer to their names
in different languages.
The air is not confined within the limits
of national air space.
The waves don鈥檛 stay still
to preserve their nationality.
Birds don鈥檛 need a passport
to migrate.
Souls don鈥檛 carry identity cards
to be certified.
And humans live in their parallel world.
But that鈥檚 a different history鈥
WHERE HAS YOUR SMILE GONE? Your smile a mask of despair from an ancient tragedy. Your look
WHERE HAS YOUR SMILE GONE? Your smile a mask of despair from an ancient tragedy. Your look
The below on June 19.
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The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) has strongly condemned today鈥檚 announcement that Premier Campbell Newman may cut up to 20,000 jobs from the public service.
QCU President John Battams says cutting so many permanent and temporary public sector jobs would take billions out of the state economy and have a huge impact throughout Queensland.
Afrodity Giannakis, 91自拍论坛 correspondent in Greece and an activist in SYRIZA, gives her first impressions of the result of the June 17 election where the conservative New Democracy beat the left coalition SYRIZA to the highers vote by just 3% of votes.
Protesters tore through a giant run-through banner that read "free the refugees" as part of World Refugee Day rally in Melbourne. Below the slogan, symbolic bars were broken representing the breaking of the fences imprisoning refugees.
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