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Voices against Israel’s apartheid system

If you change the names, the description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would be a description of what is happening in South Africa. β€” South African anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1989
Nathan Lovett-Murray

AFL player Nathan Lovett-Murray seeks payback through hip hop

When Australian Football League player Nathan Lovett-Murray was growing up, his favourite record was β€œBlack Boy” by Coloured Stone. β€œBlack boy,” goes the song, β€œblack boy/The colour of your skin is your pride and joy/Black boy/Black boy/Your life is not destroyed.” Lovett-Murray still marvels at its power.

Who’s afraid of the ΒιΆΉΣ³»­?

For more than a week, Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian has been on the warpath against green and left β€œextremists”. It began by attacking the NSW Greens for supporting the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. The Greens are organised in independent parties in each state, but the Murdoch flagship demanded that Australian Greens leader Bob Brown bring its most left-wing branch into line.

Activists call for new Veronica Baxter inquiry

Aboriginal transgender woman Veronica (Paris) Baxter was locked in Silverwater prison on March 14, 2009. She was found hanging from a bed sheet tied to the top bunk in her cell at 6am on March 16. Supporters waged a public campaign for two years calling for an inquiry into her death. The NSW coroner held the inquiry on April 4. The inquest was slated to last two days, but it was all over by 3.30pm.