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Telstra and the ABC in neoliberal Australia: No longer for everybody

Is there a link between developments with Telstra and the ABC in Australia and recent trouble in ...  
JOHN PILGER: Bringing Julian Assange home

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull can seize this opportunity to defend the life of an Australian ...  
The long siege of Julian Assange

Having done so much good for the world, the treatment of Julian Assange is ongoing and unfair ...  
Chairman Trump-Un and President Donald Kim: The New World Disorder

President Donald Trump's and Chairman Kim Jong-un's perfidious hand-in-glovefest is a near perfect ...  
Isn't it time Australia brought Julian Assange home?

Australian Government officials visit Julian Assange two years after the UN found his detention ...  
Abkhazia: Honour, shame and violence against women

In the small territory of Abkhazia, cultural stigmas still hold the threat of forced marriage or ...  
Civil society engagement in Gaza's 'Great Return' marches

Local activists have helped bring the Israeli and Palestinian conflict back into question on a ...  
Australia needs to act on homelessness

In the wake of New Zealand's economic plan to solve homelessness, Chris Mordd Richards asks why ...  
Gaza: Operation Slingshot

At the recent Gaza demonstrations, Israeli Forces inflicted 3,500 leg wounds, which suggests an ...  
How Dutton and Molan justify the heinous

Senator Jim Molan's justifications for Australia's illegal and prolonged imprisonment of innocent ...  
Inequity, autism spectrum disorder and the cost of NDIS cuts

We have two options, says Jane Salmon. Raise the Medicare levy for NDIS and support autism or ...  
Unveiling sexual harassment against women in Iran

Iranian women are suffering at the hands of men every day. Johanna Higgs discusses with them their ...  
Corpse controversy: Are the bodies of tortured Chinese prisoners being used in Sydney exhibition?

A macabre exhibition has opened in Sydney, but suspicions have been raised as to the origin of its ...  
Can Liberal MP Julia Banks – or anyone – live on $40 per day?

Last Wednesday, Julia Banks MP claimed she could live on the Newstart Allowance of $40 a day ...  
EcoPeace Middle East and the power of environmentalism

Sophia McNamara introduces Gidon Bromberg and EcoPeace Middle East — an organisation brokering ...  
Taxpayer-funded surveillance: The Liberal Party database and i360 combine

i360 captures data from the Feedback database, operated by Parakeelia, which is owned by the ...  
Surveillance, shadow profiling and political omniscience

Melanie McCartney delves into the murky world of big data surveillance methods and the ramifica ...  
Wheelchairs for Kids: Spreading a message of hope

The thousands of wheelchairs produced to aid children across the world are a sign of hope despite ...  

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