On 28 April this year, animal rights activists launched an impressive series of direct actions across eastern Australia as part of a campaign to promote the film ‘Dominion’. The resulting furor highlighted, once again, the confusion of ideas that exist at the intersections of anarchist and animal rights movements. The […]
“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth”. Commonly attributed to Lucy Parsons The closest thing to a likely source for the above quote is a speech that Lucy Parsons gave to the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago 1905. […]
Racism essential to migrant worker exploitation The Age has published an excellent first hand account of one persons experience working on an orchard outside of Melbourne; ‘Why I lasted just five weeks working in the apple industry’. The pseudonymous author was employed as a “supervisor” at an apple orchard. The […]
The Nauruan government has moved to block the implementation of the so-called Medivac Bill. The Medivac legislation, passed earlier in February, would require Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs to transfer refugees held in camps on Nauru and Manus Island to Australia for medical treatment whenever a “panel of medical experts” […]
The ABC is reporting that former President of Nauru, Sprent Dabwido, has sought asylum in Australia whilst here for medical treatment. Dabwido claims he was unable to get treatment for cancer on Nauru as the current government would rather see him dead. Dabwido was President of Nauru during negotiations with […]