Jean Parker looks at how the first Mardi Gras led to a campaign that won the right to march, as well as victories for LGBTIQ+ rights.
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The Reserve Bank pushed interest rates back up in February, as workers face a new cost-of-living shock.
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The Canadian leader visited Australia this week. Both Prime Ministers spoke of a “natural partnership” built on a shared British settler-colonial history and their possession of one third of the world’s mineral resources between them.
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Pauline Hanson’s screening in Melbourne of the reactionary film A Very Progressive Movie was challenged when cinema workers walked off the job and joined an anti-racism rally.
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In a shocking racist attack on Aboriginal people and supporters, a far-right terrorist targeted the Boorloo (Perth) Invasion Day rally on 26 January with a home-made bomb. It thankfully failed to explode.
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A January Newspoll is showing that One Nation has nearly quadrupled its support since May’s federal election.
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Administration’s strangulation of the CFMEU construction union and further attempted asset-stripping continued apace over summer, despite Admin kicking a couple of own goals.
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Iran has been the scene of widespread protests for days. Starting in the capital Tehran and focused on economic issues, the protests have spread to become an explosion of public anger against the government and its policies.
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Hundreds joined protest vigils in Sydney and Melbourne on 22 December to reject the effort to blame the Palestine movement for the horrific antisemitic terror attack at Bondi, and to oppose further restrictions on protest.
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The Queensland government’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children was overturned in October, with Supreme Court Judge Peter Callaghan ruling it unlawful.
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