Palestinians defiant in face of Israel’s latest massacre
Across the occupied territories, Palestinians are preparing for more protests demanding recognition of refugees’ right to return to their homeland and to the villages erased and ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948. After an orgy of violence by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza, which kil...CONTINUE READING
NTEU endorses proposed Murdoch University agreement, declaring it a ‘win’
A meeting of 200 National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at Murdoch University on 14 March voted overwhelmingly to endorse a new enterprise agreement. The meeting’s vote clears the way for an all-staff ballot beginning on 22 March. However, in a move described as undemocratic by s...CONTINUE READING
Get Palestinian children out of military detention
“I had barely fallen asleep when I woke to find an armed Israeli soldier hovering over my bed. He told me to get up quickly and put on a jacket. Half asleep, I was handcuffed, thrown into an army jeep, and taken to be interrogated. They had already taken my 16-year-old cousin, Ahed, the ni...CONTINUE READING
Aung San Suu Kyi: the smiling face of Myanmar’s military regime
Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), was released in 2010 after nearly two decades of house arrest by Myanmar (formerly Burma)’s military regime. “She is kind of the Mandela of our moment”, lauded U2 front man Bono. “She’s a character of great grace. Her str...CONTINUE READING
Is Labor about to abandon Israel?
A resolution expected to pass at the NSW Labor state conference in late July, urging “the next Labor government to recognise Palestine” has been touted as a dramatic shift in Labor policy by the pro-Israel Murdoch press. “Labor will formally abandon almost 40 years of explicit ideological...CONTINUE READING
Murdoch Uni’s unprecedented attack
In a move unprecedented in the higher education sector, Murdoch University commenced proceedings in the Fair Work Commission to terminate its staff enterprise agreement. If Fair Work accedes to the University’s demands, the wages of more than 3,500 staff could be slashed by up to 39 percen...CONTINUE READING
‘A loss to all of Palestine’
At 2am on 6 March, gunfire echoed through the el-Bireh district of Ramallah in Palestine’s occupied West Bank. Heavily armed Israeli troops stormed an upstairs apartment and, in a hail of bullets, shot dead 31-year-old activist Basil al-Araj. The soldiers then seized al-Araj’s body and rem...CONTINUE READING
WA Liberal Party goes from boom to bust
The Western Australian Liberal Party has suffered its worst electoral defeat in decades. A 16 percent swing against the Liberals resulted in at least four ministers losing their seats. With two-thirds of the vote counted, Labor is set to win around 40 seats in the 59-seat parliament, doubl...CONTINUE READING