As we celebrate 10 years since the launch of the Palestine Book Awards, join us for a live conversation with Palestinian poet, researcher, and aid worker Jehan Bseiso to discuss I Remember My Name , .
REPRESENTATIVE OF HOUSES
Anthony Albanese has pledged $10 billion in his budget reply speech for a housing future fund aimed at delivering 20,000 social housing properties across its first five years, with the ABC explaining about 10,000 houses would be set aside for frontline workers and another 4000 for women and families escaping domestic violence.
Returns from the fund would go towards maintaining homes in remote Indigenous communities, crisis accommodation, and specialist services for veterans experiencing homelessness.
Albanese further pledged $100 million over four years for cash payments to 10,000 apprentices working in “new energy” areas such as rooftop solar, energy efficiency upgrades and green hydrogen, and to criminalise wage theft, arguing the Coalition had behaved “like an eight-year-old child” who “threw a tantrum” by dumping wage theft provisions in its industrial relations package earlier this year.
NAKBA DAY 2021
May 15, Nakba Day, is an important date for the Palestinian people. It’s the day when Palestinians commemorate their history and their culture. While Israeli nationalists and Zionist supporters celebrate the forming in 1948 of the State of Israel, the ‘Birth’ of Israel, Palestinians remember the Nakba , the catastrophe, ie, what was done to the indigenous people.
It’s a memory that the Israeli regime has tried to outlaw, to erase. Decades ago Israel deliberately renamed, ie ‘Hebrewised ‘, village and geographical locations. Some destroyed villages were covered over with pine forests, hiding evidence that people had lived there.Â
 George Orwell has pointed out that,Â
Monday, 3 May 2021, 9:53 am
NAKBA DAY 2021
May 15, Nakba Day, is an important
date for the Palestinian people. It s the day when
Palestinians commemorate their history and their culture.
While Israeli nationalists and Zionist supporters celebrate
the forming in 1948 of the State of Israel, the Birth of
Israel, Palestinians remember the Nakba , the catastrophe,
ie, what was done to the indigenous people.
It s a
memory that the Israeli regime has tried to outlaw, to
erase. Decades ago Israel deliberately renamed, ie Hebrewised , village and geographical locations. Some
destroyed villages were covered over with pine forests,
hiding evidence that people had lived there.
Critical Stages Touring Launches Ambitious 2021 Touring & Development Season
The full season of productions and industry programs will be launched at The Arts Exchange Sydney, with special guest speakers.by BWW News Desk
Critical Stages Touring, Australia s national touring theatre company, is set to announce an ambitiously diverse year of storytelling on the country s stages.
After a successful start to 2021 with a season at the Sydney Opera House with Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark by kid s entertainment maestros The Listies, the company is looking forward to getting back on the road with another nine outstanding independent productions from Australia and New Zealand.