A video posted to social media shows a protester outside the Iranian embassy in Canberra being thrown to the ground by police after a verbal altercation.
It can happen with the loud bang of breaking down walls, a colourful splash at a protest, or through peaceful letter writing. Regardless of whether it burns fast and bright or slow and careful, social change permanently alters the path a culture was heading down. Those that have altered the direction of modern Australia are celebrated in the National Archives of Australia’s newest exhibition Disrupt, Persist, Invent, until 12 June.
Charging protesters in Iran with capital offences is wrong, a prominent Sunni cleric says, as renewed demonstrations shook Iran's restive southeast in the third month of protests despite a violent state clampdown.
Protests have simmered in Shanghai as residents in several Chinese cities, many of them angered by a deadly fire in the country's far west, push back against heavy COVID-19 curbs almost three years into the pandemic.
Protests that have shaken Iran for eight days since the death of Mahsa Amini in custody are now linked to 35 deaths, Iranian state television has reported.
Protesters in New Zealand are planning a major demonstration at Parliament House, with convoys from the North and South Islands converging on Wellington.
Calm has returned to the streets of Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo and protesters were jubilant as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to resign after his house was stormed amid outrage over the South Asia nation's collapsing economy.
Over a thousand Canberrans gathered in Garema Place on Saturday to protest the US Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v Wade, what had been considered the USA’s constitutional protection of abortion...
The blow dealt by the US Supreme Court limiting access to safe abortions has shone a light on the situation in Australia as protesters take to the streets in Canberra and around the country solidarity.
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered to resign amid the island nation's worst economic crisis since independence that has led to widespread protests, a government official says.
Protesters on both sides of the US abortion debate have faced off with chants, prayers and signs outside the Supreme Court, hours after the leak of a draft opinion that would overturn the court's landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision.
Hundreds of women have marched through downtown Mexico City and its suburbs to protest the horrifying death of an 18-year-old in the northern city of Monterrey.
Three people in the Swedish city of Norrkoping needed medical attention after being hit by police bullets during clashes between police and protesters following Koran burnings that caused riots in several Swedish towns over the Easter weekend.
