THE indigenous people of two tribes in the Australian state of Queensland protected their homes today by blocking a multinational mining corporation from tearing up their land.
Warriors from the Wangan and Jagalingou tribes and some of their supporters, numbering around 20 in total, set up a road block in the morning, preventing the Adani Group and its contractors from accessing the Carmichael mining site.
KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots
HEIDI NORMAN welcomes a new history of the Aboriginal resistance to white settlers in New South Wales
Israel’s messianic settler regime has moved beyond military containment to mass ethnic cleansing, making any two-state solution based on differential rights impossible — we must support the Palestinian demand for decolonisation, writes HUGH LANNING



