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Green Left Radio: Save Preston Market

George Kanjere joined Green Left Radio to discuss the latest iteration of the campaign to save Preston Market.

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George Kanjere

In Gaza, even thinking has become a struggle

In Gaza, even thinking has become a struggle

Thank you to those who have not forgotten us. Your solidarity cannot undo our losses, but it reminds us that humanity has not abandoned us — and...

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To Be A Name

In Gaza, even thinking has become a struggle

In Gaza, even thinking has become a struggle

Thank you to those who have not forgotten us. Your solidarity cannot undo our losses, but it reminds us that humanity has not abandoned us — and...

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To Be A Name

Land Forces weapons expo protested in a time of genocide

Land Forces weapons expo protested in a time of genocide

Around 2000 anti-war activists took to the streets in a strong rebuke to Land Forces and Western Australian Labor, which welcomed them. Cas Smith...

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Cas Smith

Ayda Issa: ‘People power can undo the colonialists’ maps’

Ayda Issa: ‘People power can undo the colonialists’ maps’

Australia is not a bystander in Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon and it never has been, Ayda Issa told a protest to mark the third anniversary of...

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Ayda Issa

Why the RBA wants higher unemployment

Why the RBA wants higher unemployment

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s key weapon against the working class is its ability to crank up interest rates, which forces more people out of...

14.10.2026 10

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Peter Boyle

Green Left Radio: Keep marching for Palestine

Nasser Mashni from the Australia-Palestine Advocacy Network joined Green Left Radio to promote the rallies marking the third anniversary of Israel’s...

13.10.2026 20

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Nasser Mashni

The fight to save Pine Creek State Forest from NSW Forestry Corp

The fight to save Pine Creek State Forest from NSW Forestry Corp

New South Wales Forestry Corporation has begun logging in Pine Creek State Forest, despite ongoing community efforts to protect the area as part of a...

13.10.2026 10

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Ben Radford

Green Left Radio: Sarah Webber on AI data centres

Sarah Webber joined Green Left Radio to challenge some of the deceptive messaging of the Victorian Labor government on AI data centres

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Sarah Webber

Victorian Labor withdraws attack on RAFFWU ahead of election

Victorian Labor withdraws attack on RAFFWU ahead of election

The Victorian Labor government, led by Premier Ben Carroll, has quietly withdrawn a controversial bill ahead of the November election, which would...

12.10.2026 10

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Zane Alcorn

Antisemitism envoy continues to push to outlaw criticism of Israel

Antisemitism envoy continues to push to outlaw criticism of Israel

Jillian Segal, Australia’s unelected Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, continues to push to insert a Zionist definition of antisemitism —...

11.10.2026 20

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Paul Gregoire

Green Left Radio: Sue Bolton on the Victorian elections

Sue Bolton joined Green Left Radio to discuss the coming Victorian elections

09.10.2026 10

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Sue Bolton

Judy Mundey: ‘Public housing needed as housing crisis deepens’

Judy Mundey argues that public housing served Australia well after the World War II and it could provide the same security to hundreds of thousands of...

06.10.2026 10

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Judy Mundey

Lizzie O’Shea: ‘Surveillance technology is a threat to democracy’

Lizzie O’Shea, writer, lawyer and founder of Digital Rights Watch, told the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties’ annual fundraising dinner...

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Isaac Nellist

Pacific Islands tell Australia not to cop out on cutting emissions

As the four-day pre-COP31 meetings get underway in Fiji, Australia need to take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, argues Pip Hinman.

06.10.2026 20

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Pip Hinman

One Nation doesn’t offer young or trans people a future

The public’s distrust of the two parties, and the system in general, has become more pronounced over the last five years. But, as Freya Hedley...

03.10.2026 20

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Freya Hedley

NSW extends youth bail crackdown, despite reduction in youth crime

Despite a reduction in youth crime, NSW Labor wants to extend its youth bail crack down, targeting 14- to 17 year olds, which the Aboriginal Legal...

03.10.2026 30

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Paul Gregoire

NSW extends youth bail crackdown, despite reduction in youth crime

Despite a reduction in youth crime, NSW Labor wants to extend its youth bail crack down, targeting 14- to 17 year olds, which the Aboriginal Legal...

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Paul Gregoire

One Nation doesn’t offer young or trans people a future

The public’s distrust of the two parties, and the system in general, has become more pronounced over the last five years. But, as Freya Hedley...

03.10.2026 20

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Freya Hedley

Students demand climate action in lead-up to COP31

Lucy Millett argues that it has become clear that federal Labor’s net-zero deadlines mean nothing, despite its promises to act on the climate...

01.10.2026 8

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Lucy Millett

End Australian complicity in genocide

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is now approaching the three-year mark, with no sign of slowing down. Yet, federal Labor continues to side with the United...

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Alex Bainbridge

Between the ocean and Palestine: Remembering Peter Manning

Shamikh Badra remembers Peter Manning’s long career in media, politics and academia, but they may not know so much about his steadfast support for...

30.09.2026 30

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Shamikh Badra

Labor singles out international students for attack

Labor’s plan to make it harder and more expensive for international students is geared to clawing back some of the vote going to One Nation and the...

29.09.2026 10

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Maharnav Bhuyan

Hindus for Human Rights: ‘Racism is not just about violence, it manifests through misinformation’

Ishita Chakrabarty calls for solidarity to challenge racism and bigotry, speaking at a Unite Against Racism rally in Glebe.

29.09.2026 10

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Ishita Chakrabarty

Albanese’s United Nations climate hypocrisy

The Prime Minister delivered a sort of homily to the United Nations, saying Australia “understands the dangers of global warming and the urgency of...

25.09.2026 30

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Pip Hinman

Whyalla Steel sackings show need for public ownership

Whyalla Steelworks has produced about three-quarters of Australia’s structural steel and all the country’s steel rails and girders. Why aren't the...

25.09.2026 30

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Renfrey Clarke

NT Country Liberal Party passes ‘obstructive’ VAD law

Despite a majority of MLAs supporting a voluntary assisted dying law, the NT Country Liberal Party Chief Minister had to be dragged to support it, and...

24.09.2026 30

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Suzanne James

AMWU organiser says workers gain from four-day work week

Many workers are now enjoying a four-day work week and a longer weekend every week due to a campaign run by the Australian Manufacturing Workers...

23.09.2026 20

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Tim Gooden

We need to stand up against genocide

Australia has previously blindly followed the United States into the war on terror and, as Cathy Eatock writes, now the Anthony Albanese government...

22.09.2026 30

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Cathy Eatock

Labor must stop helping One Nation scapegoat migrants

Home affairs and immigration minister Tony Burke’s new immigration policy is a boost to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and its Trumpite politics of...

22.09.2026 30

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Sue Bolton

Zionists drop case against genocide critic Mary Kostakidis

Journalist Mary Kostakidis, after the Zionist Federation of Australia dropped its case in the Federal Court against her, said it is a “humiliating...

21.09.2026 40

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Paul Gregoire

Big data and the AUKUS war machine

AUKUS is about so much more than submarines. Abigail Boyd argues that its more sinister part is AUKUS Pillar II, which is about warfighting using...

18.09.2026 20

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Abigail Boyd

Ecosocialism 2026 forges unity and builds struggles

The Ecosocialism 2026 conference, in Magan-djin/Brisbane, brought together ecosocialist, anti-colonial, feminist and anti-racist activists for an...

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Peter Boyle

Greens divided over koala park carbon credit scam

Federal Labor maintained its support for the fossil fuel industry against community demands for genuine climate action, by voting down a motion that...

17.09.2026 40

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Alex Bainbridge

Qld CFMEU inquiry told that bosses’ bikies terrorised worker

Administration was imposed on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union in Queensland because it supposedly brought bikies into the...

16.09.2026 50

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Jonathon Strauss

Socialist Alliance candidate says One Nation can be combatted

We can push back against capitalist politicians and their billionaire mates by getting better organised and using our collective power. Jacob...

09.09.2026 40

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Jacob Andrewartha

Bob Brown: Australian government ‘culpable’ for climate disasters like Nepal

Former Greens leader Bob Brown described Australia as being “culpable” for the devastation in Nepal because it was not acting seriously on the...

09.09.2026 40

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Alex Bainbridge

Nepal disaster a climate warning for COP31

The disaster in Nepal-Tibet-China has been described as being like a “horror movie” — only it is too real to ignore the fact that climate change...

08.09.2026 50

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Pip Hinman

NSW Police expand drone surveillance trial in Moree

Premier Chris Minns is allowing the NSW Police to continue drone surveillance on Gomeroi Country in Moree for two more years, despite having done no...

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Paul Gregoire

Lessons from One Nation’s Secret Harbour by-election win

Sam Wainwright explores some of the lessons for progressives from One Nation’s victory in the Secret Harbour by-election.

03.09.2026 30

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Sam Wainwright

Australia’s bird flu response: Too little, but it’s not too late

With the deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu spreading across Australia and devastating wildlife, federal, state and territory governments need to be...

28.08.2026 30

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Euan Ritchie

Racism against First Nations people is ‘like a cancer’, federal inquiry told

A three-month-long federal inquiry has heard accounts of widespread abuse, harassment and structural discrimination against First Nations people. Ben...

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Ben Radford

PM Albanese joins the ‘masters of immoral wedge politics’ with new ASIO bill

In 2003, Anthony Albanese said the Howard government's push to give ASIO with the power to arrest, detain and coerce people, even those not suspected...

27.08.2026 40

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Peter Boyle

Green Left Radio: In defence of prisoner’s rights

Karen Fletcher, Executive Officer at Flat Out, joined Green Left Radio to discuss the Victorian government's proposed bill attacking prisoners' human...

27.08.2026 30

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Karen Fletcher

Green Left Radio: Flat Out on prisoner rights

Karen Fletcher joined Green Left Radio to discuss the Victorian government's proposed bill attacking prisoners' human rights.

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Karen Fletcher

Zomi Frankcom and the struggle for a free Palestine

Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong’s hand-wringing over the death of Zomi Frankcom is gobsmacking in its selective outrage about Israel’s war crimes...

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Pip Hinman

Zomi Fankcom and the struggle for a free Palestine

Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong’s hand-wringing over the death of Zomi Frankcom is gobsmacking in its selective outrage about Israel’s war crimes...

26.08.2026 50

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Pip Hinman

Zomi Fankom and the struggle for a free Palestine

Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong’s hand-wringing over the death of Zomi Frankcom is gobsmacking in its selective outrage about Israel’s war crimes...

26.08.2026 40

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Pip Hinman

Segal’s speech code meets the law: Justice Fagan wrecks Canberra’s Israel exception

Justice Desmond Fagan’s decision in State of New South Wales v Farhat wrecks the architecture designed by Jillian Segal, adopted by Prime Minister...

26.08.2026 30

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Andrew Brown

ACTU suggests new plan to boost public housing, reduce rents

The crisis of affordable and secure housing is widely seen as the number one problem facing Australians and the generational pessimism is hard to...

25.08.2026 40

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Jim McIlroy