The Refugee Action Collective (RAC) Victoria held a forum on November 18 to discuss the situation facing asylum seekers in Bomana Immigration Centre, a detention centre attached to Bomana prison in ...Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
The United States government has reimposed sanctions on Venezuela's oil and gas industry. easing of the sanctions began in October, but expired on April 17.
In the opening page of his 2023 book, Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, author Benjamin Fong writes that "during the twenty-first century, every metric of ...American drug consumption has gone through the roof. The opioid crisis is the most familiar part of this trend, but marijuana, antidepressant, antipsychotic, amphetamine and benzodiazepine use have all shot up as well".
A forum organised by the Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) and the Refugee Action Coalition (Sydney) in Naarm/ Melbourne on December 11 discussed the High Court's decision on indefinite detention ...and the racist backlash.
The Victorian government is planning to introduce changes to harsh laws that restrict the granting of bail to people accused of minor offences - but they are not going to be implemented immediately.
Coroner Simon McGregor, who conducted the inquest into the death in prison of Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson, said on January 30 that Victoria's Bail ...Act needs to be "urgently" amended.
Knauf plasterboard factory workers in Port Melbourne voted on October 25 to return to work after they forced the company to abandon plans to increase its use of labour hire.
