Djirri Djirri Dancers perform for supporters at the Aboriginal Advancement League in Melbourne, on 10 September 2023, as a press conference was held in support of the ‘yes’ campaign in the Voice referendum.Photo: Australian Associated Press/Alamy Live News

Cold-hearted no

Zoe Holman reports on the Australian public’s overwhelming decision not to recognize Indigenous people in their constitution.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Australia logged

Australia logged

Report on the decimation of Tasmania’s old growth forest by Nick Dowson.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Stolen not silent: 66 years after being kidnapped and housed in a church mission, campaigner Rita Wright sits in her home in protest of colonial ‘Australia Day’ celebrations.Photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters

Stolen generations

Report from Australia by Zoe Holman.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Around 50 people were arrested trying to protect this sacred Directions Tree, eventually felled to make way for a road.Photo: Sean Paris

‘We've lost too much’

Another day of mourning for First Nations people in Australia, reports Will Higginbotham.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
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Kids locked up

Update from Australia by Amy Hall.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
A rescuer searches for injured animals on the charred forest floor of Kangaroo Island in south Australia – famed as the country’s ‘Galapagos’ for its unique and abundant wildlife – after bushfires swept through the island in January.Photo: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty

Unstoppable fire

Report from Australia by Cam Walker.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Eying up the Fitzroy

Eying up the Fitzroy

Report from Australia by Nick Rodway.

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NI 522 - China in charge - November, 2019
Photo: Alex Ellinghausen/Fairfax Media

The Interview: Behrouz Boochani

The Kurdish-Iranian writer has been imprisoned on Manus Island – part of Australia’s notorious asylum detention network – since 2013. But that hasn’t stopped him from writing an award-winning book. Using WhatsApp, Husna Rizvi interviews Behrouz Boochani.

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NI 519 - How to avoid climate breakdown - May, 2019
Copwatch has also developed an app that can be used to record and store interactions with the police, as well as to alert a user’s contacts if that person is in a potentially dangerous situation and where.

Catching the cops

A new app that helps Aboriginal people in Australia record police abuse is the latest intervention in a growing movement that uses filmed evidence to demand accountability. Ian Lloyd Neubauer reports.

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NI 517 - Trade in Turmoil - January, 2019
Fighting for their livelihoods: Puerto Rican teachers come out against the government’s drive to privatize public education.Photo: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images

The case for public ownership

After decades of denuding privatization policies, the green shoots of a public takeback are finally appearing. Dinyar Godrej on the promise and the threat.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018
Outrage at a Melbourne protest, July 2017, after the man who ran down 14-year-old Elijah Doughty was found not guilty of manslaughter.Photo: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images

Our lives, our lands

Amy McQuire on why life and death are inseparable from land for Aboriginal people in Australia.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
University students from the Free Papua Organization and the Papua Student Alliance resist police using water cannons during a protest in Jakarta, 1 December 2016. Photo: Bay Ismoyo / AFP / Getty

‘Every signature was an act of courage’

How did West Papuan campaigners build a game-changing 1.8 million-strong petition in the teeth of government repression? Key organizers tell Danny Chivers how it was done and what’s at stake.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Protesters, including First Nations people, blocking the road to Adani’s Abbott Point coal port.Photo: Alex Bainbridge / Green Left Weekly

While the world’s largest coal mine gets the go ahead…

With the Great Barrier Reef and climate targets under threat, Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret explain why this mega mine matters to all of us.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Photo: Tori Bush

A word with Yuri Herrera

The Mexican author and political scientist talks drugs, racism and masculinity with Graeme Green

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
Whistleblowers un-gagged in Australia

Whistleblowers un-gagged in Australia

Australia dropped secrecy rules which were unnecessary, undermined democratic accountability and were likely to have been unconstitutional, writes Kelsi Farrington

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
A protester holds a placard during a rally in support of refugees in central Sydney, Australia, 19 October 2015.Photo: © REUTERS/David Gray/File photo

The Nauru Files: It’s time to close Australia’s abusive detention regime

When faced with overwhelming evidence of systemic abuse, the country's prime minister shifted responsibility, writes Mark Isaacs.

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
Moana Beach, Adelaide.Photo by Les Haines

Australia: a nice, friendly, sunny place?

There are many myths about the country that just don't hold up, writes Stephen Langford.

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NI 493 - Love in the time of Ebola - June, 2016
Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected 10 years ago in 2006 as the first female Presiding Bishop in the history of the Episcopal Church and also the first female primate in the Anglican Communion.Photo: Jonathunder under a Creative Commons Licence

Worse than fiction: discrimination against women

Domestic violence has deep roots within modern society, but too often our legal system privileges the status quo instead of protecting the vulnerable, writes Brian Loffler.

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NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - March, 2016

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
How we make poverty March, 2020
China in charge November, 2019
How to avoid climate breakdown May, 2019
Trade in Turmoil January, 2019
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
Smiley-faced monopolists August, 2016
Love in the time of Ebola May, 2016
Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West March, 2016
The transgender revolution October, 2015
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