Forest firefighters marched from Trades Hall to the Victorian Parliament to demand fair pay ahead of a critical bushfire season, with a depleted emergency response fleet. Ron Guy reports.
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Zack Schofield, an organiser with Rising Tide, joins Green Left Radio to discuss this year’s People’s Blockade.
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Sex workers and their allies gathered on Gadigal land in Belmore Park to protest the Australian Border Force and various Australia-wide police being given permission to raid brothels. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Hundreds rallied against the Queensland government’s reimposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Peter Greste used a public forum to call for more whistleblower protections in public interest laws. Coral Wynter reports.
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The 45th anniversary of the founding of El Salvador’s Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front was marked at Fairfield Park. Coral Wynter reports.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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Despite all the evidence that we have entered an era of catastrophic climate change, federal Labor is pushing to bring pro-business amendments to Australia’s main environment law. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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When not a single Labor government steps up to address the crises that are being falsely blamed on immigration — unemployment, housing shortages, crime and the cost-of-living rises — it gives space for the far right to spread their hate and division, argues Sue Bull.
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Protesters called on Labor to condemn the United States’ attacks on Venezuela, Colombia and other Latin American countries. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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Hundreds marched through the streets of Marrickville to oppose the Inner West Council’s pro-developer plan and the demolition of 50–52 Warren Road. Isaac Nellist reports.
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More and more people are falling into poverty, but ending it is easier than we think, argues Isaac Nellist.