The Sydney Road Accessible Tram Stops Now campaign marked two years of the Victorian government’s doublespeak about accessible tram stops along Sydney Road. It was an anniversary none wanted. Darren Saffin reports.
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Scholar and activist Marty Branagan examines how language, film, history, gender issues, the arts and religion “can contribute either to cultural violence or to cultures of peace” in his book, The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding. Jim McIlroy reviews.
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Shaye Candish, general secretary for the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association, told a snap protest outside Royal Prince Alfred Hospital the union would not allow midwives to be cut. Pip Hinman reports.
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As Labor pitches AUKUS as an opportunity for “high tech” jobs, the City of Newcastle is conducting a survey that urges respondents to approve of a missile factory, adjacent the Newcastle Airport/Williamtown Air Force base.
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Thousands of people took to the streets across Australia over June 27–29, again demanding Labor sanctions Israel and stops sending arms. Pip Hinman and Isaac Nellist report.
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Victorian teachers protested the Jacinta Allan government’s decision to delay at least $2.4 billion in promised funding for public schools. Isaac Nellist spoke to Adam Bremner, Victorian public school teacher, Australian Education Union (AEU) member and Socialist Alliance member, about the impact of this funding cut on teachers and students.
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NSW Labor’s 2025-26 budge hands subsidies to developers and other private businesses but largely ignores the welfare of workers and the poor. Jim McIlroy reports.
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New South Wales Police brutalised pro-Palestine protesters picketing SEC Plating, hospitalising one and arresting five others. Isaac Nellist reports.
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The strikes on Iran are the manifestation of a failing international order, where the “mutually binding rules-based order” is being replaced by the pantomime of strongman politics, argues Academics for Palestine WA and Gwen Velge.
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The CFMEU’s tradition of struggle can inspire all workers and explains why the ruling class wants to break its power, argues Jonathan Strauss.
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Mat Ward looks back at June's political news and the best new music that related to it.
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Palestine solidarity activists are organising to converge on Parliament House in Canberra to demand Labor places sanctions on genocidal Israel. Jacob Andrewartha reports.