Photographs from last Sunday’s Mardi Gras Street Rally, a reminder that Mardi Gras began and continues to be a movement rooted in street marches and public protest.
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Mardi Gras Street Rally
Our Carlson and Frenzee Play at the Petersham Bowl
Photographs of last night’s gig featuring Our Carlson supported by Frenzee at the Petersham Bowlo, Gadigal Land.
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T.J. Hickey Rally - 21 Years On
Yesterday marked the 21st anniversary of the death of T.J. Hickey, who was killed when he was impaled on a fence in Waterloo, after being pursued by Redfern police in 2004. The police say it was accident but the family of T.J. say it was murder.
Every year on this day, February the 14th, Valentine’s Day, families and supporters, led by T.J.’s mother, Gail Hickey, gather at the fence where T.J. was killed to commemorate his death. Each year, they march from Waterloo, past Redfern police station, to The Block.
This year followed that same path, under grey skies and rain.
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Maggot Cave at the Hollywood Hotel
Doom metal crossover band, ‘Maggot Cave, played at the Hollywood Hotel las night in Surry Hills, Gadigal Land, supporting Frenzee.
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Frenzee at the Hollywood Hotel
Australian-Cretan hardcore punk band, Frenzee, played last night at the Hollywood Hotel in Surry Hills, Gadigal Land as part of their East Coast tour.
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Protect Trans Youth - National Day of Action
Yesterday, hundreds of people crammed Newtown Pride Square, Gadigal Land, to protest against attacks on Trans rights across ‘Australia’, including new laws in ‘Queensland’, where the State Government is introducing legislation to ban puberty blockers for young Trans kids. Speakers also spoke out against the anti-Trans movements being imported from and stoked by Trump’s America.
The rally was organised by the Trans Justice Project.
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Free Palestine - Emergency Rally to Oppose Trump's Ethnic Cleansing
Photographs from Friday evenings snap emergency rally at Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Land, ‘Australia’. The protest was sparked by Donald Trump’s suggestion that Gaza be ethnically cleansed to make way for U.S. ‘development’.
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Waitangi Day - Toitū te Tiriti
Photographs from Saturday’s commemoration of Waitangi Day in Emerson in Western Sydney, Darug Land.
The community event pressed for Toitū Te Tiriti - or the honouring of the Waitangi Treaty, the foundational document which has determined relations between Māori and Pākehā (Europeans) since the British colonisation of Aotearoa (New Zealand). The Treaty is currently under threat by the current right-wing New Zealand government which intends to pass The Treaty Principles Bill. Many Māori see this piece of legislation as not only an attempt to undermine long-established Māori rights but as racist. Toitū Te Tiriti has spread as a protest movement across Aotearoa, ‘Australia’ and internationally.
Saturday’s event in Emerton consisted of a smoking by local Darug representatives, Uncle Lex Dadd and Auntie Corina Norman, followed by speeches, a hīkoi (march) through the local neighbourhood, cultural activities and lunch.
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Yabun 2025
Photographs from Sunday’s Yabun Festival, held on Invasion Day 2025, on Gadigal Land, including speakers from the Blak Caucus, MC Steph Tisdel and performances by No Fixed Address, Troy Cassar-Daley, Miss Kaninna, Electric Fields and Barkaa.
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Invasion Day 2025
Photographs of Invasion Day, Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.
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Celebrations for Gaza Ceasefire - Day 2
Photographs of a second day of celebrations on the streets of Greenacre, on Darug Land, in Sydney’s south west, as Palestinian and Arab communities continue to celebrate the implementation of a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza after 67 weeks of bloodshed.
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Celebrations for Palestine CeasefireLast
On Sunday, Palestinian and Arab communities came out onto the streets of Greenacre, on Darug Land, in Sydney’s south west to celebrate the implementation of a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza after 67 weeks of bloodshed.
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Free Palestine Rally - Week 67
Photographs from the 67th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’, a week that saw a tenuous ceasefire finally agreed to after over 16 months of bloodshed in Gaza.
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Free Palestine Rally - Week 66
Photographs from the 66th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.
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Rally Against Femicide
Today, a small but passionate group demonstrated against femicide in Australia. The rally took place outside Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Land.
More women were murdered last year in Australia since records began, with 78 women killed in gender-based violence im 2024. This number is only two fewer than the amount of women murdered in the United Kingdom in the same period, a country with a population almost three times as great as Australia.
Australian Femicide Watch claim these figures are under-quoted, and the true number of women killed in gender-based violence in Australia is actually 101.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are disproportionately represented in these numbers.
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Free Palestine Rally - Week 65
Photographs from the 65th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.
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Piccolo Portraits - Ayesha, Charles, Jack
Some impromptu portraits of Ayesha, Charles and Jack, regulars of the famous but now-defunct Piccolo Bar cafe, a celebrated, long running Kings Cross institution.
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Free Palestine Rally - Week 64
Photographs from the 64th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.
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Free Palestine Rally - Canberra
Photographs from the pro-Palestine rally held yesterday in Canberra on Ngunnawal Land,
These weekly rallies are organized by the Palestine Action Group - Canberra.
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy - Xmas Day
Photographs of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, Ngunnawal Land, the longest running protest site in the world, taken on Xmas day 2024.
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