Perth Indymedia

West Papuan activist Wiwince Pigome joined Alex Whisson to discuss the recent escalation of pro-independence protests in the Indonesian province, and the repression meted out by the Widodo government.

Mark Goudkamp is an activist with the Refugee Action Coalition in Sydney, and a founding member of Teachers for Refugees. He spoke to Alex Whisson.

We speak to Aran Mylvaganam from the Tamil Refugee Council concerning the attempted deportation of a Tamil family from rural Queensland.

We speak to Professor Damien Kingsbury regarding the declassification of US Intelligence documents connected to the 1999 East Timorese Independence.

We speak to Jennifer Kaeshagen, the director of First Nations Homelessness Project and Vachel Spirason, the Community Legal Education Coordinator for Tenancy WA about issues facing people in public housing in WA.

We speak to Jane Hammond from Lock The Gate Alliance regarding the WA Labor government's lifting of the ban on fracking.

We speak to democracy activist Jojo about the ongoing demonstrations in Hong Kong.

Kevin Ovenden, author of Syriza: Inside the Labryinth, speaks to Alex Whisson about the results and political lessons from the recent Greek parliamentary elections.

Campaign coordinator for the Australian Council of Social Services' Raise the Rate campaign, Pas Forgione, spoke to Alex Whisson about the need to increase the Newstart Allowance, which hasn't been increased in real terms since 1994.

In February 2018, in an extremely important development that might yet prove to be a historical turning point, teachers in the so-called red state of West Virginia, a Republican Party-supporting state which helped sweep Donald Trump to the White House, decided to go on strike. Remarkably, this would be the beginning of a teachers' strike wave that would engulf not only other red states like Oklaho...

We speak to Fremantle councillor Rachel Pemberton regarding Fremantle's new Walyalup Reconciliation Action Plan.

We speak to award-winning activist and former Manus Island detainee Abdul Aziz Muhamat about his experiences inside Manus Island Detention Centre and his ongoing struggles for justice and freedom.

Could hosting US marines in Darwin increase the likelihood of Australian involvement in foreign conflict? We speak to Nick Deane from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network.

As the City Of Perth roll out new CCTV cameras with facial recognition software we speak to the Vice President of Civil Liberties Australia, Tim Vines, about potential privacy and civil liberties concerns.

We speak to Stop Adani campaigner Scott Harney on the current state of the campaign to stop the carmichael coal mine.

We speak to Jess Beckerling from the WA Forest Alliance about a growing blockade in our south-west and the need to save the Lewin karri forest.

All eyes turned to Venezuela on April 30th, when the self-declared interim President Juan Guaido announced what he called "the final phase" of his effort to wrest power from the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro. Brazil-based freelance journalist Michael Fox was in Caracas on the day of the attempted coup. Speaking late last week to our own Alex Whisson, Michael began by outlinin...

We speak to long-time Javanese author, researcher and activist Al-Fayyadl about the political and social implications of Indonesia's recent elections.

Trade unions across the country flexed their muscles last Wednesday, with a display of strength in support of the Australian Council of Trade Unions' Change the Rules campaign. As many as 200 000 people took to the streets of Melbourne, effectively shutting down the centre of the city. In Perth, some 3000 workers gathered outside State Parliament House. Alex Whisson was there to capture the highli...

When it comes to federal budgets, we hear the same blathering nonsense from politicians year in, year out. While major corporations pay little or no tax on multi-billion dollar profits, we're told the rest of us must tighten our belts, and be fiscally responsible in the face of economic headwinds and mounting debts and deficits. Above all, we must as a nation constantly work towards budget surplus...

Union membership and strike activity remain at record lows across Australia. In recent times however, a few vitally important episodes of industrial action have bucked the historical trend. Last year in our own state for example, 1600 Alcoa workers went out on the grass for no fewer than 53 days. Meanwhile on the eastern seaboard, Chemist Warehouse workers, members of the National Union of Workers...

Indymedia's Alex Whisson speaks to Dr Yassir Morsi on the culture of xenophobia and Islamophobia connected to the tragic terror attack in Christchurch.

Freight operator Aurizon are taking legal action against anti-coal activists in Queensland who are trying to stop the expansion of the coal industry. Raymond Grenfell spoke to Tess from Front Line Action on Coal to find out more about the legal case and the FLAC campaign.

Indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur, guilty of the large scale repression and impoverishment of his own people, the rule of Sudan's Omar al-Bashir, who came to power in a 1989 coup, is now under serious challenge from a popular uprising calling for his resignation. Ray Grenfell spoke to Nidal Saeed from the Australian Sudanese Activists Group WA, and began by aski...

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell hits the streets during the Perth Strike for Climate protest and chats to some attending students and supporters on why this movement is important.