The Western Australian election will be an opportunity to assess the major parties, as well as those offering progressive solutions, writes Cas Smith.
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NSW Greens MLC Amanda Cohn has introduced a bill to significantly expand access to abortion services to regional and remote communities, but is facing opposition from anti-abortion activists whose claims do not stack up. Pip Hinman reports.
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Rochelle Porteous, an indefatigable campaigner, suddenly died earlier this year. Hall Greenland writes about her activism, noting many of her greatest victories came while she was in a minority on Leichhardt Council.
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Protesters, including Aunty Gail Hickey, are still demanding that the NSW Police officers that chased TJ Hickey to his death in 2004 be brought to justice. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Socialist Alliance launched its campaign for the seat of Rankin with its key focus for the government to break ties with the genocidal Israeli state, build public housing and climate action. Susan Price reports.
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The City of Sydney became the first New South Wales council to pass a boycott and divest motion when nine other councillors, with the exception of the one Liberal, supported the move. Olivia lurincich and Rachel Evans report.
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Shamikh Badra told Peter Boyle that Palestinians will resist Donald Trump’s plans to make Gaza a beach resort, just as they have resisted Israel’s occupation armies for decades.
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Antoinette Lattouf’s unlawful dismissal case against the ABC reveals the extreme lengths to which the media establishment will stoop to silence dissenting voices, argues Isaac Nellist.
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The interest rate cut will bring some relief for borrowers, but it will not significantly ease the cost-of-living crisis. Peter Boyle argues for four measures that will.
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Israeli-Australian Ofir Birenbaum skulked away from the Cairo Takeaway with a Daily Telegraph journalist and camera person after their mission to find “evidence” of an escalation of antisemitism failed. Wendy Bacon reports.
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A protest at Sydney Town Hall Square heard civil and social movement leaders condemn NSW Labor’s proposed new laws banning protests near places of worship. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Socialist Alliance in Western Australia will run activist candidates in the federal seat of Fremantle and the Senate on a “People before Profit” platform. Janet Parker reports.