A public meeting discussed the disastrous legacy of the United States atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 and the growing danger of Australia becoming involved in a possible nuclear war stemming from AUKUS. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Defence minister Richard Marles and foreign affairs minister Penny Wong groveled more than usual at the annual AUSMIN meeting as they promised to push forward on AUKUS nuclear submarines and bases. Pip Hinman reports.
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Socialist Alliance member and Merri-bek Councillor Sue Bolton addressed an emergency rally called after the assassination of Hamas negotiator Ismail Haniyeh.
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Noel Hazard, a decades-long battler for the socialist cause, will be dearly missed right across the left, writes Peter Boyle.
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Community leaders, activists and campaigners packed into the Fawkner Seniors Citizen Centre to help launch Sue Bolton’s reelection bid for a spot in Merri-bek Council in the Bababi Djinanang ward. Chloe DS reports.
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One renter is issued with a no-grounds eviction every 18 minutes according to NSW government data. Jim McIlroy reports on the pressure Labor has come under to reform the Residential Tenancy Act.
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Thousands of people took to the streets in solidarity with Gaza, and all Palestinians, in Australia last week, as Israel stoked a regional war in the Middle East. Pip Hinman, Chloe DS and Alex Bainbridge report.
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Anti-war protesters marked the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, saying “Never again!” Jim McIlroy reports.
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Suzanne James gives a status update on the Price Waterhouse Coopers scandal since the release of the Senate inquiry’s final report.
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Nationalising, or “insourcing” Rex, including regional and inter-capital city services, could be the first step in taking the airline industry into public ownership. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Pre-class Aboriginal society suggests that people with significant impediments were integrated into community life, participating and contributing to society. Graham Matthews looks at the relationship between people’s disability and the means of production.
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International solidarity is needed amid massive overcrowding in Israeli prisons and crimes against humanity being committed daily by the Israeli occupying forces against prisoners and detainees, writes Hassan Abed Rabbu.