A Night At The Waterloo Camp with Judy Mundey and Wendy Bacon

Photographs of tonight’s talk by long-time activist, Judy Mundey and journalist, Wendy Bacon at the Save Waterloo encampment, a protest site set up to prevent the first stage of demolition of Australia’s largest public housing complex, the Waterloo estate.

Discussions centred around the history of Sydney’s fight for equitable housing, including the Green Bans in Potts Point, which was led by Judy’s husband, Jack Mundey, in the 1970s.

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Save Waterloo Rally

Photographs from today’s ‘Save Waterloo’ rally demanding the halt to the demolition of public housing in Waterloo in Sydney’s inner city on Gadigal Country.

The rally began at Waterloo Green (T.J. Hickey Park) where speeches were made, before marching to the encampment which has been set up as a protest site.

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Save Waterloo Encampment

Six days ago, a protest camp was set up to blockade the first tranche of the demolition of public housing at the Waterloo estates. Over 150 homes are set to be demolished, some with tenants still living in the ear-marked buildings.

The NSW government is planning on replacing the public housing exclusively with privately owned properties. While some will be privately-owned ‘social housing', most will be in direct private hands and none will be built as public housing. The Waterloo estates are one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, and house many Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and migrant communities.

The Housing Minister, Rose Jackson, has labelled communities such as those in Waterloo, as “not functional”.

Meanwhile, the Grattan Institute has identified Sydney as “ground zero for Australia’s housing crisis”.

The camp was set up by a coalition of public housing advocates, including Action For Public Housing, who are calling for the houses in Waterloo to be renovated, rather than demolished.

A rally is planned for tomorrow.

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Australian Contingent of the Global Sumud Flotilla Returns Home

Yesterday, seven Australian activists returned home to Sydney International Airport on Dhurrawal Country, after being abducted by Israeli forces while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Israel is currently enforcing an illegal maritime blockade, which is exacerbating the widespread starvation, humanitarian crisis and genocide that is still unfolding across the Gaza Strip.

In emotional scenes, more than 100 family, friends and supporters welcomed the arrival of the activists. The activists then held a press conference to a waiting media pack, detailing beatings, sexual assaults and humiliation by the Israeli military.

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Al Nakba Rally

On Friday evening, several thousand people turned up at Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Land, for the annual Al Nakba rally.

Al Nakba (‘The Catastrophe’) is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homelands by Israeli forces, culminating in the founding of the Israeli State in 1948. This year marks the 78th anniversary of that date.

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Vigil For Kumanjayi Little Baby

Last night, several hundred people turned up to Sydney Town Hall Square, on Gadigal Country, to hold a vigil for five-year old Warlpiri girl, Kumanjayi Little Baby, whose body was found in bush land last week in Mparntwe, Alice Springs, Arrente Country, two weeks after going missing from her home.

The vigil was one of many held around ‘Australia’ last night.

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Paddle Out For Sumud

Yesterday, Rising Tide held a paddle out across Sydney Harbour, from Milson’s Park, Cammeraygal Land, to the Sydney Opera House on Gadigal Land, to bring attention to the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of boats which is currently heading across the Mediterranean Sea to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid through the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.

The Israeli navy has already intercepted several boats from the flotilla, arresting and detaining crew, including Australians, Zack Scholfield, Ethan Floyd and Neve O’Connor. Accusations of torture against Israeli forces have been made by the detainees. While the Australians have been released, others have been taken to Israel for interrogation. The remainder of the fleet is still on course for Gaza.

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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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