Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BOYLE Peter
The right-wing Donald Trump United States administration has demanded that Australia increase its military spending from 2% of gross domestic product (about $56 billion a year) to 3% ($84 billion) and the major parties have been, predictably, quick to obey.
Socialist Alliance calls instead for (…)
, by LOMAS Zara
A diplomatic row broke out in February between Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands, after the Cook Islands government signed a range of strategic partnership deals with China.
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters accused Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown of lacking transparency and (…)
, by KAMPMARK Binoy
Mining magnates are the unelected captains of industry. While the official rhetoric might, seemingly, be at odds, especially when it comes to climate change, but if the country’s business is mining, governments will do whatever they can to accommodate mining CEOs’ wishes.
It is for that reason (…)
, by NINIS Dee
The death toll from Vanuatu’s earthquake disaster continues to rise, with international search and rescue operations underway to help people hit by the initial quake and its aftershocks.
On Tuesday afternoon, a powerful earthquake struck 30 kilometres off the west coast of Efate, the main (…)
, by CLARK Byron
A few months before the 2023 election, Charlie Mitchell and Katie Kenny of Stuff asked the question “Can Winston Peters ride a ’freedom’ wave to Parliament?”. Peters had launched his campaign with an interview on Reality Check Radio, the online radio platform launched by the conspiracy theorist (…)
, by McILROY Jim, WYNTER Coral
The Forgotten Pacific Directed by Elizabeth Koroivulaono Edited by Laura Macbeath Narrated by Suluafi Brianna Fruean A Tiki Lounge Production Free screening on The Coconet TV and YouTube
“We’re not drowning, we’re fighting!” is a key theme of the Pacific Climate Warriors depicted in The (…)
, by DHIR Nandini
Over half of migrant women who experienced sexual harassment at work feared losing their job if they reported the issue.
More than half of migrant women employed in Australia have experienced sexual harassment at work.
Research from Unions NSW, the peak body for the state’s labour unions, (…)
, by LOMAS Zara
Aotearoa New Zealand’s parliament was brought to a halt on November 14 during the first reading of a controversial and divisive bill that aims to undermine the rights of Māori people.
The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to “redefine” the principles of Aotearoa’s founding document, the Treaty of (…)
Vote cast with 158 other countries to recognise ‘permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’
A spokesperson for the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said the vote reflected international concern for Israel’s actions, including its ‘ongoing (…)
, by LOMAS Zara
Pressure is building on Aotearoa New Zealand’s government to create a humanitarian visa pathway for Palestinians fleeing the genocide in Gaza.
More than 30 organisations, including World Vision NZ and Amnesty International, called on the government in March to allow Palestinians who have (…)
, by BILLARD Cathy
A statement on the position of the new French government and state in relation to the extraordinary mobilisation of the people of Kanaky was expected in the general policy speech of the French prime minister Michel Barnier on 1 October.
Since 13 May, the date on which a law to unfreeze the (…)
, by KAMPMARK Binoy
There is much to loathe about the AUKUS security agreement between Canberra, Washington and London.
The August 2024 AUSMIN talks in Annapolis, Maryland, held between United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and their Australian counterparts, (…)
, by CORLETT Eva, TAHANA Jamie
Experts say policy changes that include scrapping Māori-led programs will harm communities and put New Zealand’s ‘great reputation’ at risk
Leading Māori figures from across New Zealand have sounded the alarm over the government’s changes to policies that affect Māori, after analysis by the (…)
, by ROBIE David
Jean-Marie Tjibaou, a revered Kanak visionary, was inspirational to indigenous Pacific political activists across Oceania, just like Tongan anthropologist and writer Epeli Hao’ofa was to cultural advocates.
Tragically, he was assassinated in 1989 by an opponent within the independence movement (…)
, by DELAPORTE Lucie, TREPIED Benoît
French President Emmanuel Macron left Paris for New Caledonia on Tuesday, in a bid to defuse the unrest in France’s Pacific Ocean territory that has claimed the lives of at least six people over the past week. The eruption of rioting last week followed a move by Paris to allow recent settlers on (…)
, by FOUTEAU Carine
A sixth person was on Saturday reported to have been killed in the ongoing unrest in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia, amid increasing calls for Emmanuel Macron and his government to place on hold the legislation that sparked the violence. This will give newly arrived settlers, (…)
, by HÀ René, HIOE Brian
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke with René Hà, one of the founders of the Stamped zine, a space for migrant creatives navigating Australia’s immigration system.
Brian Hioe:Could you first introduce yourself for those who don’t know you?
René Hà:My name is René Hà. I am a Vietnamese national (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, WAINWRIGHT Sam
Sam Wainwright is a Socialist Alliance national co-convenor and active in the Stop AUKUS WA coalition, which is campaigning in Western Australia against the Australia-Britain-United States military pact. In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist (…)
, by HINMAN Pip
Amid the escalating violence in Gaza, the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) has again called on state and federal governments to cut all military ties and to apply sanctions to Israel, as it did after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sarah Schwartz, human rights lawyer and JCA Executive, said on (…)
, by KAMPMARK Binoy
The heralded arrival of the Internet, an information medium never before seen on such scale, caused enthusiasm.
Humankind would go on to fawn over a technology which would, as Langdon Winner writes, “bring universal wealth, enhanced freedom, revitalized politics, satisfying community, and (…)
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