Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, Australia has been the only one to be indifferent to the need for an inquiry into its merits, argues Binoy Kampmark.
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Wollongong Friends of Palestine set up a 300-strong community picket at Bisalloy Steel and two shifts have been successfully blocked. Kerry Smith reports.
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About 300 anti-racist protesters, many still in their work uniforms, demonstrated outside Pauline Hanson’s fundraising event. Cameron Mitchell reports.
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Workers from Parks Victoria took strike action to demand equal pay to other public servants. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Unruly WA, a three-day multimedia exhibition which promoted our democratic right to protest, reminded us of the power movements have to create profound change. Cas Smith reports.
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Jepke Goudsmit writes that Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion should have been an investigation into the root causes and persistence of every type of racism in this country, saying exceptionalising antisemitism is a form of racism in itself.
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Police attacked the Goori Camp Embassy during Reconciliation Week to pave the way for construction work on an Olympic stadium at Barrambin/Victoria Park. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss protests resisting government crackdown on the right to protest and the fight against Pauline Hanson’s racism.
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With polls showing a surge towards Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, Max Chandler-Mather discusses the social context behind the declining support for the major parties and what can be done to involve people in transformational politics.
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One Nation’s right-wing populism is built around a big lie, writes Peter Boyle, because it defends the very capitalist system that has created the widespread pain and insecurity it seeks to channel into racist scapegoating.
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About 1000 people attended the Stop the Chop rally to demand Premier Peter Malinauskas and the Labor government stop destroying the city’s trees and parks. Markela Panegyres reports.
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The investment boom in generative artificial intelligence, spurring the rapid build of data centres across Victoria, is raising widespread concerns. Jacob Andrewartha reports.