Free The Flotilla - Snap Rally

Around 200 people held a snap rally on Thursday evening at Sydney Town Hall, on Gadigal Land, to protest against the seizure of a boat in international waters that was transporting humanitarian aid through Israel’s illegal maritime blockade of Gaza.

The boat was part of the Global Sumud Flotilla and was crewed by Australians, including Zach Schofield and Wiradjuri activist, Ethan Floyd. Schofield’s father spoke at Thursday’s rally.

After two days of captivity, Israel has just announced that it has released the crew in the Greek Island of Crete.

In the meantime, the remaining fleet of the Global Sumud Flotilla continues to sail towards Gaza, as Israel’s navy intercepts the boats one by one. Over 200 people have so far been detained, with several taken to Israel for interrogation.

Thursday night’s rally marched to the offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Pitt Street and was organised by Students for Palestine, the Palestine Action Group Sydney and the Coalition of Women for Justice and Peace.

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Defend Iran Rally

Last Monday, 27.04.2026, a ‘Defend Iran’ rally was held in Auburn, on Dharug Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’, to protest against the ongoing war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by U.S. and Israeli forces.

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Hands Off Lebanon Rally

Ray Minnicon, ANZAC Day 2023

A portrait of Uncle Ray Minniecon at the 2023 Coloured Diggers’ March, Redfern.

At this morning’s ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Martin Place, Uncle Ray was shamefully booed by racists during his Acknowledgement of Country.

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Appin Massacre Memorial

Last Sunday, the 17th of April, a memorial was held to mark the 210th anniversary of the Appin Massacre, where at least 14 Dharawal men, women and children were shot and herded off a cliff by British troops, on the command of Governor Macquarie, in 1816. Macquarie ordered his troops "to inflict exemplary and severe punishment on the mountain tribes...to strike them with terror...clearing the country of them entirely", further instructing that the corpses be hung up on trees as a warning to other Dharawal resisting the invasion.

The massacre was only one of hundreds of other massacres perpetrated across the continent as part of the British genocide against Aboriginal peoples.

Around 150 people, including descendants of both the Dharawal victims and British perpetrators, attended Sunday’s memorial, held at Cataract Dam just outside of Appin and organised by the Winga Myamly Reconciliation Group.

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Drop The Herzog Protest Charges - Rally

This morning, activist group, Stop The War On Palestine, organised a rally on the steps of the Downing Centre Local Court, Sydney, Gadigal Land, where mentions were made of cases brought against protesters who were arrested during the police violence that broke out during the demonstration against the visit of Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, earlier this year, on the 9th of February, 2026. On that night, protesters were beaten and pepper-sprayed, while a peaceful Muslim prayer was set upon by police. Twenty-seven people were arrested while others have had charges pressed against them, post-facto, in police raids, since.

The police violence occurred after the NSW Minns Labor Government introduced repressive legislation increasing police powers and outlawing protests under certain conditions. These laws were this week found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of NSW. Premier, Chris Minns, has doubled down on his crusade for tougher laws against protests, while the police continue to conduct arrests relating to the night of the 9th of February.

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Palestinian Prisoners' Day

Photographs from last Friday’s protest marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day in Newtown on Gadigal and Wangal Lands in Sydney’s inner west, commemorating the incarceration of nearly 10,000 Palestinian men, women and children currently held in Israeli prison camps.

Every year on April 17th, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is held on the date that Mahmoud Bakr Hejazi was released in the first prisoner exchange between Israel and Palestine in 1971.

This year is especially significant as calls grow louder for the repeal of Israel’s new execution laws which specifically target Palestinians.

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Rally Against Santos Gas Projects

While mining giant, Santos, held its Annual General Meeting today in Adelaide, activist group, The Knitting Nannas held a small rally in Martin Place, Sydney, Gadigal Land, to protest against the company’s gas fracking projects across the country, including in the Pillaga Forest on Gomeroi country, near Narrabri in northern NSW and the associated pipeline that runs through the Hunter Valley.

Communities are concerned about the environmental, health and cultural damage these projects will cause.

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Candlelight Vigil For Lebanon

Rally and Vigil at the Iranian Embassy

On Sunday, around 200 people gathered at the front of Parliament House in Canberra, Ngunnawal Land, to rally for an end to the war on Iran by US and Israeli armed forces.

The crowd then moved to the Iranian Embassy, where they were met my a handful of Iranian monarchists who disrupted the planned vigil for the scores of children who were killed after their school in Minab in southern Iran was bombed by the US on the first day of the war.

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Stand With Lebanon Rally

Hands Off Iran, Lebanon, Palestine Rally

Palestine Land Day

Yesterday’s rally at Sydney Town Hall on Gadigal Land, commemorating Palestinian Land Day,

Land Day (or Yom al-Ard) marks the killing of six unarmed Palestinians and the wounding of more than 100 others, who were protesting against the confiscation of over 2000 hectares of land in Galillee by Israeli forces on March 30, 1976.

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Palm Sunday Rally

Photographs from today’s Palm Sunday rally on Gadigal Land, where a coalition of anti-war, peace and refugee activists came together to march from Belmore Park to Victoria Park. Speakers spoke out against militarism, Trumpian politics and the war unfolding in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine and elsewhere across West Asia.

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Sacred Remnants: Poetry Book Launch By Charles Freyberg

Yesterday, poet Charles Freyberg performed excerpts from his latest book, Sacred Remnants, at the El Rocco Room in Kings Cross on Gadigal Land.

Reading their own poems were also Tug Dumbly, Lou Steer and Whatever Eva.

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International Day of The Elimination of Racial Discrimination Rally

Photographs from yesterday’s rally marking The International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination rally, held on Gadigal Land and organised by The Blak Caucus.

The 21st of March commemorates The International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination which was established in 1966 by the UN in response to the Sharpeville Massacre in apartheid South Africa in 1960, where at least 91 people were killed and over 250 people wounded during a protest against ‘pass laws’. Pass laws have links back to slavery and the violent colonisation of Africa.

Like many countries around the world, ‘Australia’ adopted the International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by ratifying the UN convention in 1975. But in 1998, John Howard’s Federal Government took ‘Australia’ down another path - the only nation in the world to do so - and rebranded it ‘Harmony Day’, in a political stunt aimed at masking the underlying plague of racism in this country.

Yesterday’s rally aimed to highlight this history which most ‘Australians’ are unaware of. The rally began at Hyde Park with speeches, music and dance, before marching through the CBD to Circular Quay, where speakers called for the abolition of Harmony Day and the reinstatement of The International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

It was a sad irony that when arriving at Circular Quay, Sydney Harbour happened to be hosting one of the largest naval gatherings in its history, including flyovers by military aircraft. This at a time when several wars are raging across the world - in Africa (The Congo and Sudan), West Asia (including in Palestine and Iran), in Ukraine and elsewhere. It also comes at a time when racism is on the rise throughout the world, and when, here in ‘Australia', Aboriginal deaths in custody are at a record high.

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Vale Rhoda Roberts

Vale Rhoda Roberts, a Widjabul Wieybal woman of the Bundjalung Nation, actor, festival director, producer and cultural advisor.

Photograph taken at ‘Homeground’, a festival which she devised and directed, on Gadigal Land at the Sydney Opera House, 2016.

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24-Hour Strike at UTS

Photographs from yesterday’s 24-hour strike by staff from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where pay and conditions are under attack, led by Vice-Chancellor, Andrew Parfitt.

The strike was organised by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU).

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Hands Off Iran - Rally

Photographs from yesterday’s ‘Hands Off Iran - Ceasefire Now-Scrap AUKUS’ rally at Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Land.

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Ramadan Night Markets - Lakemba

A few photos of the Ramadan Night Markets in Lakemba, south-west Sydney, Darug Land - taken before my battery went flat.

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