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WEBGreen Left News Podcast Ep 53: Venezuela’s election results & Sue Bolton on community campaigning. Green Left is not-for-profit, activist media, carrying the news, analysis & debates of environmental and social justice campaigns and movements.
Racism in Australia: 1788 to today - Green Left
WEBJan 26, 2000 · The victims of racism in Australia have not been limited to indigenous people. Between 1837 and 1844, approximately 500 Indian labourers arrived in the Australian colonies, along with a small number of Melanesian and Chinese workers. Between 1848 and 1852, 3000 Chinese labourers arrived. This number increased substantially between 1850 and the ...
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WEBPhotos: Tens of thousands walk for Yes to the Voice. Green Left is not-for-profit, activist media, carrying the news, analysis & debates of environmental and social justice campaigns and movements.
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WEBGreen Left News Podcast Ep 54: Israel attacks Lebanon & building a mass climate movement. Isaac Nellist discusses Israel’s latest attacks on Lebanon and talks to Zack Schofield, an activist with Rising Tide, about Labor’s expansion of coal mining in New South Wales and how we can resist.
Gary Foley: Aboriginal Tent Embassy a 'stroke of genius' - Green Left
WEBJanuary 13, 2022. Issue. 1329. Analysis. Graphic: Isaac Nellist. On its 50th anniversary Green Left ’s Markela Panegyres and Chloe de Silva spoke to Gumbainggir activist and historian Gary Foley about the history and significance of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. What led to the Tent Embassy being set up and how did it develop into such a ...
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WEBAug 11, 1993 · The Green Left Weekly fund appeal is a special fund established at the beginning of every year to raise the funds needed by Green Left Weekly to cover its production costs. This year we need to raise $100,000 to keep the Green Left going. By the end of July the Green Left Weekly fund appeal had …
Why Nazis still call Australia home - Green Left
WEBJun 6, 2001 · By Mark Aarons. Black Inc, 2001. 649 pp, $34.95 (pb) When justice minister Amanda Vanstone said that the alleged Latvian war criminal Konrads Kalejs was "welcome" to stay in Australia, it was a revealing slip of the tongue. Since 1947, when the first Nazi war criminals arrived in Australia, "successive governments have knowingly allowed ...
Historic Cummeragunja Walk-Off remembered - Green Left
WEBFeb 14, 2019 · February 4 marked the 80th anniversary of the little-known 1939 Cummeragunja Walk-Off, when 200 Yorta Yorta people left the Cummera mission in southern New South Wales in protest against their mistreatment by mission bosses and the theft of their land. Dr Wayne Atkinson, an elder of the Yorta Yorta nations of the Murray-Goulburn region, was one ...
The spirit of Eureka and Australia’s working-class struggles
WEBDec 1, 2017 · Those rousing words of C Drake, written in 1890, remind us that the tradition of courageous and militant struggle shown by the Eureka rebels in Ballarat has always had a powerful influence on Australia’s working class and our unions. Indeed, the Eureka rebellion is the spiritual birthplace of Australia’s union movement as we know it today.
Why aren't our laws preventing widespread land clearing?
WEBMar 15, 2018 · Australia has national environmental laws — the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act). Yet given the staggering rates of land clearing taking place, resulting in the extinction and endangerment of plants and animals in Australia, these laws are clearly not working. About 395,000 hectares of regrowth and old growth vegetation were cleared during 2015–16 in ...