Australian News

Article and discussion on staff at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane following in the footsteps of colleagues at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital and calling for the immediate release of children being held in immigration detention centres. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60422

Article and discussion on anti-racist protesters at the media conference of Dutch Islamophobe Geert Wilders outside WA parliament house on October 21. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60401

Article and discussion on Khodayar Amini, an Afghan Hazara asylum seeker who feared immigration authorities were planning to put him back in detention, he died after set himself alight on October 18. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60435

Article and discussion on multiple rallies held around Australia protesting the treatment of “Abyan”, the Somali woman who fled her country as a result of sexual violence only to be raped while in Australian detention on Nauru. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60436

Article and discussion on the student occupation demanding that the University of Tasmania (UTAS) divest its $300 million portfolio from the fossil fuel industry entering its second week. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60433

International News

Article and discussion on contradictions in an Amnesty International report accusing the People's Protection Units (YPG) of committing crimes in places that were not under their control at the time. The substance of the allegations were that they were ethnically cleansing Arab and other non-Kurdish people from the areas they control. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60465

Article and discussion on the victory of protesting students in South Africa who forced President Jacob Zuma to backtrack on October 23 and cancel a planned university fee rise next year. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60463

Article and discussion on a hunger strike by about 300 Tamil political prisoners in 11 prisons beginning on October 12. Many of the prisoners have been detained without trial under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, accused of being members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60453

Interview

Lalitha Chelliah interviews Moreland councilor and long time feminist Sue Bolton on women being refused abortions at the Royal Womens Hospital in Melbourne.