Free Palestine Rally - Week 63

Photographs from the 63rd consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.

This week’s rally included a memorial for Uncle Khaled Nabhan who was killed two weeks ago in Gaza. He was well known for a social media post in which he cradled his slain 5-year old granddaughter in his arms, describing her as “the soul of my soul”.

Also featured were three 50 meter banners registering 35,000 names, just a portion of those Palestinians killed so far in Gaza by Israeli forces.

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Rally Against Islamophobic Attack

Photographs from this morning’s rally at Bankstown police Station, in south west Sydney, Darug Land.

Last week, Mariam, a Palestinian woman, and her young daughter were verbally attacked and threatened with physical harm in an Islamophobic attack at KMart in Bankstown shopping centre. The attack was recorded on social media. Mariam has claimed that she called police, who failed to respond, and instead started harassing her family and acquaintances.

This morning’s rally was held to support Mariam and demand that police take immediate and appropriate action. Speakers brought attention to the differences of how authorities and main stream media respond to Islamophobic incidents in comparison to anti-Semetic and anti-Zionist incidents.

After the rally, Mariam went into the police station to lodge an official complaint.

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Senator Fatima Payman

Portraits of independent Senator Fatima Payman, taken in-situ at the 62nd consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally, Hyde Park, Sydney, Gadigal Land, Australia.

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Free Palestine Rally - week 62

Photographs from the 62nd consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.

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Free Palestine Rally - Week 60

Photographs from the 60th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.

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Protect Healthcare Workers in Gaza Rally

Photographs from Friday evening’s rally at Sydney Town Hall, Australia, Gadigal Land, protesting against the targeting of healthcare workers in Gaza by Israeli armed forces. In pouring rain, doctors, nurses, physicians and other healthcare professionals spoke out against the ongoing violence being perpetrated against their colleagues across Palestine, where more than 45,000 people have been killed.

Friday’s rally was organised by Amnesty International.

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Free Palestine Rally - Week 59

Photographs from the 59th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.

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Trans Day of Action 2025

The annual Trans Day of Action started at Pride Square in Newtown, Gadigal Land and then moved down King Street to the Sydney Basin Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Victoria Park, Camperdown.

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Free Palestine Rally - Week 58

Photographs from the 58th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.

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Hikoi mo te Tiriti on Gadigal Land

Yesterday, hundreds of people marched through Sydney’s city centre on Gadigal Land as part of the Toitū Te Tiriti (Honour the Treaty), a movement sweeping through Aotearoa, protesting against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, a piece of legislation being brought before New Zealand’s parliament that attempts to undermine the Treaty of Waitangi. The treaty is the foundation document of relations between Māori and Pākehā (non-Māori) people.

Since the 10th of November, thousands of people have been marching as part of the Hikoi mo te Tiriti (March for the Treaty) from the north of Aotearoa, aiming to descend on New Zealand’s Parliament in Wellington on the 19th of November to protest the Bill.

Yesterday’s Hikoi mo te Tiriti in Sydney on Gadigal Land started at Martin Place before marching to the New Zealand Consulate-General in Bond Street, where speeches were made and hakas performed. The hikoi then moved to Hyde Park.

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Free Palestine Rally - Week 57

Photographs from the 57th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.

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Sydney Basin Aboriginal Tent Embassy - Day 21

Day 21 at the Sydney Basin Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Victoria Park on Gadigal Land consisted of some T-Shirt printing, fire making, cooking, song and some portraits.

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Sydney Basin Aboriginal Tent Embassy Set Up

Photographs of the setting up of the Sydney Basin Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Victoria Park, Camperdown, Gadigal Land on the 2nd of November, 2024.

The Embassy was initially set up along the eastern side of the park adjacent to City Road in response to the visit by the British and Australian monarchs, Charles and Camilla. After 3 days, the camp, including the sacred fire, was moved to the western side of the park, where previous Aboriginal Tent Embassies have been located.

The Embassy is demanding sovereignty for First Nations peoples, a stop to genocide and land back.

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Free Palestine Rally - Week 56

Photographs from the 56th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.

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Stop Aboriginal Deaths In Custody Rally - Long Bay Jail

On Sunday, around 150 people rallied at Long Bay Jail, Matraville, on Bidjigal Land, to protest against ongoing Aboriginal deaths in custody.

Since the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was handed down in 1991, at least 563 First Nations people have died in custody.

The rally was called by Paul Silva, nephew of Dunghutti man, David Dungay Jnr, who was killed in 2015, when several correctional officers stormed his cell at Long Bay Jail after he refused to stop eating a packet of biscuits. After being set upon by officers, he was forcibly injected with a sedative. His last words were, “I can’t breathe”. He was pronounced dead soon after, at the age of just 29.

Also present were the families of Mark Mason Snr and Aubrey Donahue, two Aboriginal men who were also killed while in police custody.

First Nations people in Australia are considered the most incarcerated people on Earth.

Judy Deacon, the mother of Jesse Deacon, a white man who was shot by NSW police during a mental health episode last year, also spoke.

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Sydney Basin Aboriginal Tent Embassy Opening

Photographs from last Saturday’s official opening of the Sydney Basin Aboriginal Tent Embassy.

The Embassy has been re-established at Victoria Park in Camperdown - the site of several previous Aboriginal Tent Embassies - in response to the visit by the British and Australian monarchs, King Charles and Camilla, last month. The Embassy is demanding sovereignty for First Nations peoples, a stop to genocide and land back.

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Free Palestine Rally - Week 55

Photographs from the 55th consecutive weekly Free Palestine rally on Gadigal Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’.

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Kayak For Palestine and Planet

50th birthday celebrations at Rozelle Bay on Gadigal Land, were combined with a kayak for Palestine and the planet, in preparation for Rising Tide and the The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port in Newcastle, held from the 19-28th of November, 2024.

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First Nations Protest Against Royal Visit

‘Empire Built On Genocide’

Images from today’s protest action and banner drops at Circular Quay, Government House and Sydney Harbour on Gadigal Land, by First Nation activists and supporters, speaking out against colonialism and genocide during the visit by the British-Australian monarchs.

Kooma man, Uncle Wayne Cocoo Wharton was arrested by a massive police presence, which had assigned the entire Sydney Harbour foreshore precinct as a ‘designated area’, meaning no protest was allowed on threat and enforcement of arrest.

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Free Palestine First Anniversary Vigil

Photographs from last night’s multi-faith vigil at Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Land, Sydney, Australia, marking one year since the start of the war on Gaza, which has now spread to the Occupied West Bank and Lebanon.

On a deeply emotional night, a large police presence was on hand after state and federal politicians insisted the vigil should not proceed.

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