Perth Indymedia

Queer Youth Event, Glitter Nova, was cancelled last Thursday after safety threats from a Neo Nazi group.

The event, which was organised by @stronningtonyouthservices and the council will be postponed to another date; however, was canceling the right option?

While the event was cancelled, 200+ showed up in solidarity, including Drag performers and community allies alike.

@tomtanuki - Antifascist commentator and community organiser, unpacks what happened, why cancelling such events is not conducive to any assurance of safety, and how the activist and anti-fascist community will always stand in solidarity with those at risk.

Murrawah Johnson from Youth Verdict spoke to Indymedia about their landmark win in the Queensland Land court.

The case, which ruled in favour of rejecting Waratah Coal / Clive Palmers coal mine, is an amazing step forward for not only preservation of environment and country, but for First Nations connection to it.

Murrawah explains how they won, and what it means for the future.

Clinton Fernandes is an author, a former intelligence officer on the Indonesia desk for the Australian Army, and currently a Professor of International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra.

He spoke to Alex Whisson to discuss his latest book, Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena, published by Melbourne University Press.

On Friday 25th November, after many twists and turns in a fiercely fought campaign for better wages and conditions, Western Australian nurses went out on strike. It was the first strike by Western Australian nurses since 1998, one held, remarkably, in defiance of an Industrial Relations Commission order, the same industrial umpire, so-called, which later threatened to suspend the Australian Nursing Federation's registration as a union.

To discuss these dramatic developments, and what might happen next, Alex Whisson was joined by Tyler Ray, a rank-and-file ANF activist and enrolled nurse at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

While in Australia for the International Trade Union Confederation World Congress, currently being held in Melbourne, Deputy Chairperson of the Independent Mineworkers Union of Ukraine, Nataliya Levytska, spoke to Alex Whisson about the immense difficulties of carrying on her work in conditions of war and privation.

Rikki Dank - Fracking The Beetaloo Basin & COP 27 by Perth Indymedia Collective

On the eve of Palestinian Independence Day, and in the wake of Benjamin Netanyahu's return to Prime Ministerial office, Alex Whisson spoke to Palestinian writer and commentator, Jafar Ramini, who has recently moved to Perth from the UK.

In the wake of Ethiopia’s government brokering a deal to permanently halt hostilities with the Tigray People's Liberation Front, we speak to Amhara Ethiopian man Mesfin Tadesse and his partner and longtime advocate for peace in Ethiopia Janet Bastyan.

The State Government is considering potential future land use and zoning opportunities for the western section of the land corridor originally reserved for the Roe Highway extension proposal.

The East- West corridor which runs from the Beeliar wetlands to Clontarf hill is a deeply loved and an environmentally essential path for not only our wildlife and biodiversity but, for its mental and physiological benefits for those that utilise them.

While the space is now free of a highway, those who fought to protect it did not do so for the sole purpose of preventing Roe 8/9.

Christine outlines what exactly the Green corridor (also known as the Cockburn wildlife corridor) is, the ecological value it provides and why its preservation is so important.

The DPLH are currently conducting a study to explore potential land uses for the Cockburn Wildlife corridor - originally reserved for the Roe 8/9 Highway.

The corridor crosses 7 distinct ecological zones, including wetlands,

paperbark forests and banksia woodlands as well as 3 dune systems.

This environment not only houses hundreds of reptiles and small

marsupial species, native to WA but it is also the home to our

beloved black cockatoos which face extinction threats.

Paddy Cullen, a prominent environmental activist who has

dedicated much of his life to raising awareness for the preservation

of these endangered majestic creatures, spoke to Zoe about what threat any development would have on our endangered Black Cockatoos.