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When Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that 300,000 reservists would be called up to bolster the war effort, spontaneous protests and planned actions took place in more than 30 cities across the country, reports Dick Nichols.
read now A pro-fascist government has returned to power in the Italian elections, for the first time since Benito Mussolini was deposed in 1943, reports Daniel Castelli.
read now A majority of Cubans voted in favour of a new families code that allows same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. Ian Ellis-Jones reports.
read now The Victorian government is dragging its feet on making public transport accessible to people with disabilities. Darren Saffin reports.
read now Ukraine is almost certain to slip into hyperinflation if its war with Russia continues beyond the next few months, reports Renfrey Clarke.
read now Current laws regulating how data is managed by corporations and government organisations fail to fully protect consumers. Sonia Hickey reports.
read now The blackout that engulfed Puerto Rico when Category One hurricane, Fiona, hit on September 18, laid bare the impacts of austerity and privatisation carried under United States fiscal control, reports Barry Sheppard.
read now The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association will have its first openly contested leadership election since 2003 in October. Niko Leka reports.
read now Marie Flood, a member of the Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends, gave this speech at a Sydney climate protest alongside First Nations activists, unionists and high school activists speaking out for real action on the climate.
read now Progressive Kurdish and Iranian groups worked together to build a successful demonstration on September 25 in Sydney Town Hall square to protest the killing of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini by Iran’s notorious ‘morality police’, reports Peter Boyle.
read now Protesters rallied and marched through Sydney on September 24 demanding urgent action to address the climate crisis and a just transition to protect jobs, reports Peter Boyle.
read now Plaintiff and Tiwi Elder Dennis Tipakalippa said he was “the happiest man alive” after the Federal Court ruled Santos’ approval to drill for gas in the sea north of the Tiwi Islands was invalid. Rebecca Parker reports.
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