Originally billed as a protest against Donald Trump Jr. who was previously scheduled to speak in Australia, speakers at the snap rally highlighted issues faced by transgender people in Australia and overseas and emphasised the detrimental effect of Trumpism on trans people.
Author: Will Thorpe
The rally, organised by the Rainbow Rights Coalition, demanded that trans people be protected from discrimination, that the Safe Schools program be reinstated, and the expansion of gender-affirming healthcare.
Students and activists attended the rally to protest against Labor’s expansion of fossil fuels and continued support for anti-protest laws.
“I, like many of you, potentially hoped that the Albanese Labor government would not follow in the footsteps of Scott Morisson. But it did, and this new government is taking us in the opposite direction of what so many of us want — a nuclear-free and an independent foreign and defence policy.”
The book is a clear example of religion operating to the detriment of queer and young people, emblematic of a rotten religious education system. Amazingly, it has remained in use despite a 2015 ban by the NSW Department of Education.
May Day, also known as Labour Day, is an international day of celebration of workers’ rights and the union movement, with origins in Second International’s support for the eight-hour working day and the American Federation of Labor.
I still don’t know what I am, but I know what I’m not.
“The Go8 and Universities Australia’s commitment to AUKUS and the submarine program is condemning the next generation of students to building for, fighting and dying in a war that is against the interests of ordinary people.”
The defence juggernaut’s increased presence on campus is due to a recently-galvanised relationship with the University of Sydney.
Despite popular revivals in the 80s and 90s, rock today lives largely away from the mainstream. It exists mostly in pubs and bars, and that’s okay — it needn’t be widely commercially successful to be good or to have a point. Wherever it goes, its rebellious aura will live on.
