Chloe DS reports that Sivaguru 鈥淩ajan鈥 Navanitharasa, who endured one of the longest periods inside Australia鈥檚 detention centres, was finally released into community detention on November 25.
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News
The NSW Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 was due to go to a lower house vote. But听a small group of MPs have proposed a host of last-minute amendments to delay its passage, reports Suzanne James.
Despite efforts by librarians and City of Melbourne councillors to provide library services to refugees detained in the Park Hotel prison听it has still not been approved.听Marlon Toner-McLachlan reports.
A Stop the Far Right protest was held in response to the growing presence of far-right protesters on the streets of Melbourne in recent weeks. Conor Bond reports.
The Trans Day of Resistance was marked in Newtown with speakers addressing the ongoing struggle for rights by trans and gender diverse people. Pip Hinman reports.
Supercars, council transparency and Stockton Beach鈥檚 sand erosion problems were key discussion topics at a Newcastle lord mayoral candidates鈥 forum. Kathy Fairfax reports.
Unionists and locals joined Better Read Than Dead workers at a rally in solidarity with their struggle for a new workplace agreement, Isaac Nellist reports.
A counter rally against the far right anti-vax demonstration was organised on November 20. Photos by Alex Bainbridge.
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United Workers Union members听across seven Toll Group distribution centres听accepted a new offer from Toll. Jim McIlroy reports.
Analysis
Not everyone at the 鈥淔reedom鈥 protests is right wing, but the protests are and so are the organisers. Their growth should be a serious cause of concern for the left, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Sue Bolton
The 91自拍论坛 Show features Charlie Murphy of Pride in Protest.
Australia鈥檚 cruel, immoral and illegal refugee policy is supposedly being carried out in our name. Janet Parker argues we must do everything within our power to bring it to an end.
Australia鈥檚 major political parties are leading us down a path of escalating regional tensions. But it does not have to be this way, argues Jordon Steele-John.
In these paranoid times, it is somewhat sobering to acknowledge that the mass monitoring of the population is an offspring of the turn of the century, writes Paul Gregoire.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been promoting 鈥渃an do capitalism鈥 when Australia needs policies that treat all equally, argues Stuart Rees.
There are valid concerns about pandemic lockdowns. But, as Zane Alcorn argues, so-called 'freedom' protestors have never marched for other's rights nor been concerned about keeping people safe from COVID-19.
World
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has wasted no time in deploying defence and federal police personnel to the Solomon Islands. Binoy Kampmark looks at the motivations behind the move.
The United Socialist Party has听landed a comprehensive victory in Venezuela鈥檚 regional and local elections, winning 83% of the governorships, reports Paul Dobson.
Spain is experiencing a wave of industrial unrest, as workers fight for secure jobs and to regain lost wages and conditions, reports Dick Nichols.
The recent criminalisation of Palestinian human rights groups is the logical outcome of decades of impunity and repression against any challenge to Israel鈥檚 regime of apartheid, writes听Maureen Clare Murphy.
Fourteen months after the Narendra Modi government introduced new farm laws, the Prime Minister has had to announce their repeal听 in the face of unprecedented farmers鈥 resistance.
Following the recent Danish municipal elections, Andreas Thomsen interviewed Eva Milsted Enoksen, a long-time member of the Red Green Alliance and a former member of the party鈥檚 Copenhagen leadership.
November 16 marked exactly three months of Taliban occupation of Kabul, reports Yasmeen Afghan. The world cannot turn its back.
A federal judge exonerated Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam for the assassination of revolutionary Black rights leader Malcolm X, reports Malik Miah.
Teenage vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty for the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and for wounding Gaige Grosskreutz at a Black Lives Matter protest last year, reports Malik Miah.
Culture
Suzanne James reviews a new book on the security implications of climate change and the sociopolitical, cultural and scientific factors that influence the black-ops diplomacy of foreign policy.
Alex Salmon reviews an inspiring memoir of the fight against union busting inside a North Carolina carpet mill.