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Victorian Opposition leader Jessica Wilson recently vowed to drastically restrict the Victorian public’s right to protest with new ‘move on’ laws, as well as criminalise phrases including “globalise the intifada”.

The Victorian Forest Alliance has posted photos on social media of logging occurring in Croanjingolong National Park.

A new biotechnology start-up, Warhound, seeks to use gene-editing technology, cloning and advanced military technology to create a new dog optimized for combat.

For the first time in more than 100 years, Wuthathi families came together in their Country, on the far north-eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, to celebrate what generations of their ancestors have fought for since their removal in the early 1900s.

Iona Julian-Walters and Phoebe Thompson are multidisciplinary artists and members of the Fish Life Collective. Currently Fish Life is showing its first ever exhibition at Trocadero Projects in Footscray, entitled Mermaid's Purse. Yesterday, Juliette spoke to Iona and Phoebe about how Fish Life came to be and how their collective's work marries art and science in whimsical installation art works. Trocadero Projects is at Level 1/ 40 Leeds Street in Footscray, showing until 1 November. To find out more you can go trocaderoprojects.org.au. or @fishlife.collective on Instagram or https://fishlife.neocities.org/ 

Professor Danielle Mazza AM FAHMS is the Head of the Department of General Practice at Monash University and a nationally and internationally recognised leader in implementation research and knowledge translation in the general practice setting. She leads the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care (SPHERE), which aims to improve the quality, safety, and capacity of primary health care services to achieve better outcomes in women’s sexual and reproductive health.  

Free Palestine Coalition Naarm is a Melbourne-based coalition for building anti-zionist, anti-imperialist mass organising to end the occupation of Palestine. This Friday they will be a part of a coalition of groups across various rank and file union groups in Naarm who will rally in solidarity with the dockworks in 100 ports across 17 countries who have declared an international day of action against war and militarisation of ports on October 30th.

Sarah is a local resident who is passionate about the Markets future as a community and diverse economic space. The Preston Market is at risk again, and the Save Preston Market are encouraging community members to make a submission by this Wednesday to save the heart of this community. The draft plan for Preston Market redevelopment has drawn concerns from community members who worry that the new development plans does not accommodate for the continued flourishing of Preston Market as genuine public & civic space, but rather will likely be overshadowed by high-rise development.

Jo Dodd is the president of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action. Bushfire survivors for climate action is a community of bushfire survivors sharing their stories to push for collective climate action. In a new report from Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, it has been discovered that bushfires in Australia cost up to 6 billion dollars in damages annually. With climate change worsening due to increased usage of fossil fuels, and the heat threat of El Nino these numbers are only predicted to rise. For more information you can go to https://www.bushfiresurvivors.org/ and https://emergencyleadersforclimateaction.org.au/