A Palestine solidarity activist’s home was attacked in Katoomba. Kerry Smith reports.
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Lock the Gate Alliance, along with 130 community groups, is calling on MPs to reject Labor’s changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, describing it as a “betrayal”. Kerry Smith reports.
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A migrant worker rights activist has lodged a complaint to the Australian government about how MediCeram, Ansell’s Malaysian supplier, treats its workers. Kerry Smith reports.
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The Jewish Council of Australia has called for united action to combat the far right and call out racism, rather than giving police more powers. Kerry Smith reports.
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Community members protested outside the United States’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — over its role in the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine. Kerry Smith reports.
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United States forces launched strikes on two small vessels in the Caribbean, claiming they were transporting drugs. US officials have warned more strikes could come, including possibly on foreign soil. In the second of our two-part series, Green Left’s Kerry Smith speaks to Federico Fuentes about the US threat in the Caribbean and how the solidarity movement should respond.
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Doctors working in public hospitals have voted overwhelmingly to reject NSW Labor’s latest pay offer, with 75% voting “no”. Kerry Smith reports.
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Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe said a Treaty process that does not address the “continuous theft of our land and destruction of our sacred sites undermines our very survival”. Kerry Smith reports.
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Green Left’s Kerry Smith speaks to Federico Fuentes, a regular GL writer on Venezuela and long-time solidarity activist, about the significance of United States President Donald Trump’s deployment of warships throughout the Caribbean — and why it must be opposed.
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An Australian Council of Trade Unions commissioned a national poll of workers, which concluded that management capability puts the brakes on productivity. Kerry Smith reports.
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Aboriginal organisations and independent Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe are calling on the federal government to suspend federal funds for policing and prisons in the Northern Territory until the Country Liberal Party government reduces the incarceration of First Peoples and children. Kerry Smith reports.
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July 6 marked 27 years since the Biak massacre in 1998, when Indonesian security forces massacred scores of people in Biak, West Papua, reports Kerry Smith.