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WEBRising Tide & Environmental Film Festival present The First Wave & Water Is Life. Naarm/Melbourne. Rising Tide & Environmental Film Festival present The First Wave & Water Is Life. 7pm-8.30pm, Wednesday 11 September 2024. CERES Learning Centre, Lee Street, Brunswick East 3057.
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 ...
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 of a number of people who
Green Left Weekly
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 …
Racism is a feminist issue - Green Left
WEBYou can also call 1800 634 206 to make a donation or to become a supporter. Thank you. Racism is a feminist issue Despite successive governments' rhetoric about reconciliation, many indigenous people in Australia live in Third World conditions and, across the board, Aboriginal people have lower levels of health, education employment,
The case for socialism: War: capitalism with the gloves off
WEBNov 17, 1993 · War is capitalism with its gloves off, the logical result of a system driven by competition for control over resources and markets. It was not the madness of President George W. Bush that fuelled the war on Iraq, but US capitalists' desperate drive to control the world's oil. Democracy under this system remains a charade.
Labor's conscious vote: Whose conscience counts? | Green Left
WEBAug 23, 2000 · The ACT branch of the ALP also was troubled by this issue, and allowed a "Claytons" conscience vote on voluntary euthanasia, deciding that those members who did not follow party policy would not be disciplined. The Greens (with the exception of the NSW Greens) and the Democrats have the right to vote according to …
Paternalism: its impact on Indigenous communities - Green Left
WEBNov 17, 1993 · Paternalism: its impact on Indigenous communities. November 17, 1993. Issue. 683. Culture. Not Part of the Public: Non-Indigenous policies and practices and the health of Indigenous South Australians 1836-1973. By …
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 ...
Invasion of Iraq remembered - Green Left
WEBMar 22, 2021 · Iraq War remembered. Photo and video: Peter Boyle. “On this very day, 20th of March 2003, the rain was falling all the day long, exactly like today, as we are gathering in this place,” Abeer Hasan Al Ani, an independent Iraqi journalist and human rights activist told a small gathering of anti-war activists at Sydney Town Hall on March 20.