Overwhelming support for Rudd petition against Murdoch media
Zia Ahmad
Within a week, hundreds of thousands of Australians have signed the petition initiated by former Australian PM, Kevin Rudd on Saturday 10 October 2020, calling for a royal commission into Murdoch media empire, naming News Corp a "cancer on democracy" and a "protection racket" for the Coalition holding almost 70 percent of print readership across Australia.
Kashmiri leaders form alliance to restore Article 370
Mohamed Ainullah
Freed Kashmiri leaders, imprisoned for the past one year, on Thursday 15 October 2020, have announced the formation of an alliance of political parties in Jammu and Kashmir in order to campaign for the restoration of the special status of Kashmir before the abolition of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution last year.
Apart from tax cuts for the rich, the neglect of much needed social housing and cuts to JobSeeker and JobKeeper the Frydenberg-Morrison Budget had a nasty ‘deeply buried’ in the Budget Papers. It announced an English language requirement for partner visa applicants and for their permanent resident sponsors.
"while attacks on Dalits and women have escalated vastly all over India since 2014, when the Hindu-supremacist Modi regime with its entrenched Casteist and misogynist ideology came to power, the Adityanath government in UP has seen by far the largest number of attacks and atrocities."
