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1. NSW government forced back to drawing board on floodplain harvesting

   irrigators. But she was defeated by Labor; the Greens; Shooters, Fishers and Farmers; the Animal Justice ... floodplain harvesting property rights could expose the public purse to multi-million-dollar compensation ... claims.  “Issuing permanent property rights to irrigators is a huge transfer of public wealth that should ...

2. Sam Wallman: A people’s comic artist

   detention. The piece was nominated for a Walkley Award and won an Australian Human Rights Award. Winding Up ... upon. A high point is the 1973 Broadmeadows Ford factory strike that led to women winning the right to ... produced animations for the Victorian Aids Council and a short animated history of the Green Bans in ...

3. Surviving the COVID-19 and climate crises requires radical solutions

   such as AIDS, Ebola, SARS, MERS and Zika also originated in animals. Spillover is a higher risk today ... environments, such as deforestation and urbanization. This brings wild animals in closer contact with human ... two options: go extinct or jump.” The relentless commodification and caging of wild animals adds to ...

4. Australia breaks Convention on the Rights of the Child

   prisons are incarcerating children as young as 13. The major obstacle for human rights advocates ... the rights of these children), the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Australian Medical ... Gillard and foreign minister Kevin Rudd were very concerned about the rights of a 14-year-old Australian ...

5. A-League fans rebel for democratic rights

   sporting-related protests in Australia's history. The issue at stake is basic democratic rights denied to fans ... right-wing media engaging in outrageous and slanderous attacks on football fans than with actually promoting ... weeks, A-League fans have been slandered in the media and by police as “thugs”, “grubby pack animals” and ...

6. Bolivia: Right-wing violence as draft constitution approved

   right-wing attacks campesinos (peasants) were violently attacked when they arrived to defend the besieged ... by right-wing students. Evo Morales, the democratically elected indigenous president, moved the ... led by right-wing civic committees — tied to the eastern-based oligarchy — are active in Surce. ...

7. Bangladeshi women organise for their rights

   FERNANDES and MICHAEL TARDIF talked to KHUSHI KABIR, women's rights activist and chairperson of ADAB ... fundamentalists want to suppress. Tasleema Nasreen has been portrayed as a champion of women's rights in the ... of the rights of lower class women. How successfully has the left taken up the challenges that the ...

8. What’s right with Bill Gammage’s book

   land for more than 60,000 years right across the continent. Obviously their complex methods of land ... plants and animals. Further information on this topic is contained in the book Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, ... fault of Gammage that right-wing organisations such as the Institute of Public Affairs and Jennifer ...

9. Palestine's struggle for human rights

   because not in my wildest dreams could I ever think that you have an area where you have food for animals ... after 1967. The Israeli government does not want to give us legislative rights over our land and its ... Likud and the right. The whole government might collapse because the left is not strong enough to ...

10. New bill looks set to overturn NSW’s archaic abortion law

    Liberals, Labor, NSW Greens and the Animal Justice Party. It is the first co-sponsored bill to ever be ... in a July 28  statement: “It's past time for women to have the right to make decisions about ... Association NSW branch, the Human Rights Law Centre and NSW Pro-Choice Alliance, a newly formed coalition of ...

11. Why eat meat?

    non-human animals. However, such a perspective fails to understand the many benefits involved with being ... half the water used in the United States is used for raising animals for food. It takes 210 litres of ... and untreated animal wastes. It is estimated that 105,000 kilograms of livestock excrement are ...

12. Orwell's true heir

    the anti-socialist right. Conservatives promoted Animal Farm as a political fable about the ... reveals the dark political shadow to the Orwell icon. Socialists have rightly valued Orwell's ... self-proclaimed socialist, Animal Farm and 1984, have seen long service as noisy, ideological battering rams for ...

13. Friendly fire in the war on climate change

    to confront — animal rights, a cleaner environment, social justice, income inequality, the list goes ... various infectious diseases from animals to humans. Mann, who is a vegetarian, validates the assertion on ... provide conservatives with ammunition against climate action by “reinforcing the right-wing trope that ...

14. Knitting Nannas protest Santos gas plan

    expressed to the IPC right now, Flood said. Nick Clyde from Lock the Gate Alliance told the gathering that ... ALP MP Trish Doyle, Independent MP Justin Field and Animal Justice Party MP Mark Pearson expressed ...

15. United States: Biden’s ‘bullshit’ climate promises

    a small scale because of its high cost. Right now, there is zero prospect of using this on a large scale. ... capitalism had created a “metabolic rift” between the cities and the countryside. Plants and animals grown ... to zero by 2030, to avoid catastrophic climate change. Greta Thunberg (right) and Joe Biden. Morrison ...

16. Elder keeps on fighting for the Darling-Baaka River

    Ngiyaampaa elder Dr Beryl Carmichael or Yungha-Du is still fighting for the rights of her people and country. ... amongst the lore people.” “Everything is connected the birds, the animals, the land, the sky, everything. ... any. Soon we we’ll have to put out cardboard cut-outs of the birds and animals so our young people will ...

17. Speciesism is prejudice

    plight of the most oppressed group of all — non-human animals, notably those exploited by the animal ... agriculture industry. The horrors perpetrated by intensive animal farming — hens de-beaked and crammed into ... pregnant sows immobilised in steel crates — have been widely reported. Even where the welfare of animals is ...

18. Lynas plans permanent radioactive waste dump in Malaysia

    — plant, animal or human. This takes place when they decay in the surviving cells damaging the DNA — the ... back down and accept this search for a “safe” permanent waste dump. Right now, through AidWatch, we are ...

19. 10 new albums that oppose all forms of war

    A week later, protesters took to Sydney's streets to oppose a bill by far-right politician and ... men's rights advocate Mark Latham that aims to prohibit teachers from educating students about trans and ... farm animal. We're not bitches or nags or psycho or hysterical. We're not bimbos or slags or ...

20. Egypt and the global fight for women’s rights

    on February 11 — have highlighted the ongoing struggle for women’s rights around the world. One ... It was organised in support of the right to vote and equal pay for women. Through protests and ... relentless campaigning, women have won many gains over the last century, including the right to vote, work ...

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