The AUSMIN talks between the US and Australia provided another occasion for propaganda repeating the lie that the US military's expansion into South East Asia and Australia will lead to greater security. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Voting by postal ballot is underway in the National Tertiary Education Union in the University of Sydney with union members having until August 30 to decide on their new representatives. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Jonathan Strauss argues that a fighting, democratic union movement would entail members and delegates’ meetings directing industrial action and political campaigns, opposing state intervention and not subordinating union strategy to Labor’s pro-capitalist project.
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The latest episode of the Green Left Show features Sarah Williams, Sue Bolton and Renée Lees on how to stop violence against women.
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Venezuela solidarity activist Arnold August travelled from Canada to Venezuela to observe the July 28 election. He explains below how Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) was created through a popular democratic process following the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998.
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A new draft list of NDIS “supports” shows why a list is the wrong tool. Many of the supports on the exclusion list are better value for money than items that have been included, argues Nova Sobieralski.
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The City of Newcastle and Port Stephens Council, joint owners of the Newcastle Airport, have established an entity which will lease to weapons’ manufacturers, in contravention of an ethical investment policy. Steve O’Brien reports.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claims that Labor is “determined” to close the gap, but the latest report shows things have gotten worse for First Nations people. Isaac Nellist reports.
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About 80 people protested in front of the NSW Parliament to demand NSW Labor end its complicity in Israel’s Gaza genocide. Stephen Langford reports.
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Students at the University of Sydney voted to cut ties with Israel at a historic student general meeting. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Refugees and their supporters want Tony Burke, the new minister, to urgently provide people who have waited years under the misnamed “Fast Track” process with permanent visas. Kerry Smith reports.
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Isaac Nellist discusses the national weekend of rallies to end violence against women, what could be done after Rex Airlines falls into administration and students protest in India after corruption and exam leaks impacted millions.