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Stand with RAFFWU, oppose Vic Labor’s ‘anti-association’ bill

Stand with RAFFWU, oppose Vic Labor’s ‘anti-association’ bill

Sue Bolton writes that the new Victorian Premier is using this bill to close down the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, which has a good record on...

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Sue Bolton

Will AUKUS keep us safe?

Will AUKUS keep us safe?

Wollongong Against War and Nukes has joined with many others to oppose plans to turn our home into a military town. Melanie Barnes canvasses the...

previous day 10

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Melanie Barnes

Thirty seconds of truth: Royal commission quotes anti-Zionist Jew

Thirty seconds of truth: Royal commission quotes anti-Zionist Jew

Despite the Gaza Holocaust continuing, the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is being conducted according to the Zionist...

wednesday 20

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Jepke Goudsmit

Socialist Alliance opposes the rapid expansion of AI data centres

Socialist Alliance opposes the rapid expansion of AI data centres

Socialist Alliance opposes the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence data centres being pushed by the Victorian Labor government as they have no...

wednesday 10

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Socialist Alliance Victoria

Vale ‘Bolshi Bob’ — active to the end

Vale ‘Bolshi Bob’ — active to the end

Bob’s life principles were based on solidarity, opposition to oppression and exploitation, and support for working-class struggles, recalls Sue...

wednesday 10

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Sue Bolton

Universities’ use ‘safety concerns’ to silence students, staff on Palestine

Universities’ use ‘safety concerns’ to silence students, staff on Palestine

Universities are using the Universities Australia definition of antisemitism, which conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism, to crack down on...

wednesday 8

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Sarah Bloom

Thirty seconds of truth when royal commission quotes anti-Zionist Jew

Thirty seconds of truth when royal commission quotes anti-Zionist Jew

Despite the Gaza Holocaust continuing, the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is being conducted according to the Zionist...

wednesday 10

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Jepke Goudsmit

NSW Police to be given powers to download phone content

NSW Police to be given powers to download phone content

NSW Labor is set to introduce a bill to give NSW Police the power to require people to provide access to their digital devices during more routine...

wednesday 20

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Paul Gregoire

Green Left Radio: Opposing Western Suburbs Data Centre expansion

Peter Gartside from the Borderlands Cooperative spoke to Green Left Radio about the protests against western suburbs data centre expansion.

10.08.2026 10

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Peter Gartside

How fossil fuel companies target children with climate disinformation

How fossil fuel companies target children with climate disinformation

Fossil fuel companies are targeting young people in schools, early childhood centres, museums and community organisations to propagandise about the...

08.08.2026 10

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Ben Radford

How fossil fuel companies target children with climate disinformation

How fossil fuel companies target children with climate disinformation

Fossil fuel companies are targeting young people in schools, early childhood centres, museums and community organisations to propagandise about the...

08.08.2026 20

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Ben Radford

Aboriginal women-led group launches push for water rights

Aboriginal women-led group launches push for water rights

Traditional water owners from the northern Murray Darling Basin have set up a new First Nations group to ensure that cultural and personal connections...

07.08.2026 10

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Tracy Carpenter

Deal-making on AUKUS and Palestine is a dead-end

Deal-making on AUKUS and Palestine is a dead-end

Sam Wainwright argues we urgently need to step up the fight within the union movement to stop AUKUS and the associated drive to militarism. If there...

06.08.2026 20

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Sam Wainwright

Arrernte people demand their land back at Pine Gap

Arrernte people demand their land back at Pine Gap

Veteran activist Coral Wynter joined hundreds of anti-war and First Nations activists at the Close Pine Gap, Sacred Land Back Convergence at...

05.08.2026 20

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Coral Wynter

Glencore’s massive Hunter coal mine extension must be rejected

Glencore’s massive Hunter coal mine extension must be rejected

Glencore’s guarantee of jobs cannot be trusted, based on its own history, writes Steve O'Brien. Its bid to expand its coal mining must be rejected...

05.08.2026 10

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Steve O’brien

Why Work for the Dole programs must be abolished

Why Work for the Dole programs must be abolished

People shared their horror experiences about Work for the Dole programs, including not having training, the lack of safety equipment and very little...

05.08.2026 10

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Pip Ryan

Why you must book now for Ecosocialism 2026

Why you must book now for Ecosocialism 2026

The resignation of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s education minister is the Asian Gen Z movements’ latest blow against government corruption and...

05.08.2026 20

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Jonathan Strauss

Vale Bevan Ramsden, an inspirational peace activist

Vale Bevan Ramsden, an inspirational peace activist

For more than 60 years, Bevan Ramsden dedicated himself to the pursuit of an independent, peaceful and sustainable Australia, free from US domination...

04.08.2026 10

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Independent And Peaceful Australia Network

Hiroshima 81 years on: Australia must sign the nuclear weapons’ prohibition treaty

Ruth Mitchell, a doctor and neurosurgeon, argues that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs showed the unacceptable effects they have on humans and the...

03.08.2026 20

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Ruth Mitchell

Green Left Radio: Labor's turmoil in Victoria

Sue Bull joined Green Left Radio on July 31 to discuss the turmoil and right wing shift in the Victorian ALP

03.08.2026 10

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Sue Bull

Green Left Radio: Why we are rallying to protect the NDIS

Maccas joined Green Left Radio to discuss the weekend's rallies to protect the NDIS.

03.08.2026 10

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Maccas

Green Left Radio: rallying to protect the NDIS

Maccas joined Green Left Radio to discuss the weekend's rallies to protect the NDIS.

02.08.2026 10

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Maccas

Green Left Radio: Labor's turmoil and right wing shift in Victoria

Sue Bull joined Green Left Radio on July 31 to discuss the turmoil and right wing shift in the Victorian ALP

31.07.2026 20

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Sue Bull

Arrente people demand their land back at Pine Gap

Along with hundreds of other anti-war and First Nations activists, veteran activist Coral Wynter joined the Close Pine Gap, Sacred Land Back...

31.07.2026 10

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Coral Wynter

New Victorian Labor Premier is more of the same

Victoria has a new Premier four months out from a state election, showing it is terrified it will face annihilation at the election. Sue Bull and...

31.07.2026 20

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Sue Bull

Leichhardt ‘slammed’ by NSW Labor’s planning changes

The population of the inner-west suburb of Leichhardt is set to double with 10,000 new homes proposed for the area. Isaac Nellist spoke to Doodie...

30.07.2026 20

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Isaac Nellist

Domestic violence isn’t a ‘two-way street’ and Hanson isn’t confused

Pauline Hanson comments regarding domestic violence are part of her base building strategy. Lisbeth Latham argues that it is not around indifference...

30.07.2026 10

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Lisbeth Latham

WorkSafe is useless. We need strong unions

Joe Hill recounts what happened after he reported safety concerns on a site. He argues that the best way for safety issues to be addressed is when...

29.07.2026 20

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Joe Hill

Despite domestic violence growing, Qld LNP cuts services funding

The Queensland Liberal National Party government is not only hiding domestic and family violence reports from public scrutiny, it has abandoned its...

29.07.2026 10

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Justin Beevers

Green Left Radio: Digital Rights Watch on Albanese and AI

Tom Sulston from Digital Rights Watch joined Green Left Radio to discuss the governments policy on Artificial Intelligence.

27.07.2026 20

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Tom Sulston

Green Left Radio: Rosebank Engineering’s complicity in genocide

Jye Batam joined Green Left Radio to discuss local campaigns to stop weapons being supplied to Israel.

24.07.2026 10

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Jye Batam

Green Left Radio: Rosebank Engineering - complicit in genocide

Jye Batam joined Green Left Radio to discuss local campaigns to stop arming Israel

24.07.2026 10

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Jye Batam

Reject One Nation’s call to return to White Australia Policy

Pauline Hanson’s podcast interview with far-right British figure Tommy Robinson has cleared up any ambiguity about the meaning of One Nation’s...

24.07.2026 30

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Peter Boyle

Protests demand Pine Gap be closed

Pine Gap, known as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, is a prickly reminder that Australia remains annexed to the security interests of the United...

22.07.2026 30

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Binoy Kampmark

Qld gov’t, bosses plan to hammer building workers

Queensland’s Liberal National Party government is proposing to cut construction workers’ pay and conditions and restrict their right to organise...

21.07.2026 20

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Jonathon Strauss

Anti-CFMEU campaign wedges Vic Labor in election year

With Jacinta Allen’s Labor government under pressure, the bosses and their media outlets are amping up their anti-Construction, Forestry and...

21.07.2026 30

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Sue Bull

The royal commission must stop erasing Palestinians’ experiences, voices

Shamikh Badra argues that when Palestinians are discussed as objects of inquiry, rather than as people with history, political agency and lived...

21.07.2026 20

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Shamikh Badra

Reject One Nation’s call to return to White Australia

Pauline Hanson’s podcast interview with far-right British figure Tommy Robinson has cleared up any ambiguity about the meaning her One Nations...

20.07.2026 20

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Peter Boyle

Green Left Radio: Hindus for human rights on protesting Modi

Deepak Joshi joined Green Left Radio to talk about protests against Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.

18.07.2026 30

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Deepak Joshi

Biased royal commission into antisemitism cannot deliver change

As Israel continues to inflict genocide on Palestinians, in Gaza and the West Bank, Janet Parker argues that it, not the anti-genocide movement, is...

18.07.2026 20

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Janet Parker

Islamophobia is the greater racist problem today

Islamophobia is a bigger problem than antisemitism in Australia today, but government agencies and the mainstream media would have you think the...

17.07.2026 30

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Pip Hinman

Rank-and-file ticket to contest NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association election

A rank-and-file ticket, focused on accountability and workplace health and safety, will challenge the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association...

16.07.2026 20

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Pip Hinman

Rank-and-file ticket prepares to contest NSW Nurses and Midwives Association election

A rank-and-file ticket, focused on accountability and workplace health and safety, will challenge the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association incumbents...

15.07.2026 20

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Pip Hinman

Telstra outage shows communications network should be publicly owned

Telstra’s network outage cut millions of people off from communication. Dom Williams argues that the solution is to take this essential...

15.07.2026 10

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Dom Williams

Nuclear energy, Modi and his ‘down under’ toadies

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was fated by the Prime Minister, who wants to grow Australia's export of uranium, despite India not being a party...

14.07.2026 30

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Binoy Kampmark

Islamophobia is the major racist problem today

Islamophobia is a bigger problem than antisemitism in Australia today, but government agencies and the mainstream media would have you think the...

14.07.2026 30

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Pip Hinman

The threat to abortion in Australia and what’s at stake?

Attempts by conservative forces to whittle back abortion rights in NSW, South Australia and Queensland have all been defeated for now. Kamala Emanuel...

13.07.2026 20

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Kamala Emanuel

Australia’s selective outrage about missile tests in the Pacific

Labor foreign minister Penny Wong is outraged that China is testing its intercontinental ballistic missile, saying it is is “destabilising” for...

10.07.2026 30

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Pip Hinman

New research finds Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism is failing

As record-breaking heatwaves scorch the northern hemisphere and another El Niño summer is predicted here, new research from The Australia Institute...

09.07.2026 30

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Alex Bainbridge

Australian media’s alt-right politics

Channel Nine’s former star Karl Stefanovic is the latest Australian media personality to reveal their sympathies for the far right, Isaac Nellist...

08.07.2026 30

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Isaac Nellist