Frontline workers in the Northern Territory are pushing back against the Country-Liberal Party’s destructive “tough on crime” policies. Stephen W Enciso reports.
News
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Northern Territory Courts cut the after-hours bail service, creating more danger, particularly for minors. Stephen W Enciso reports on the community push-back.
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Rank-and-file activists within the National Tertiary Education Union organised a national day of action for Palestine at nine university campuses. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Labor has delivered what it hopes will be an election-winning budget, with $17 billion in new tax cuts and $150 in energy rebates to each household for their next two bills. Peter Boyle reports.
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WA Labor suffered an -18% swing against it, with the swing going largely to minor party and independent candidates. Blair Vidakovich reports.
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As Israel unleashes more bombing terror across Gaza, protesters took to the streets in emergency snap actions across Australia. Pip Hinman reports.
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Four speakers addressed a public forum organised by Australian Advocacy for Good Governance in Sri Lanka. Chris Slee reports.
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A packed-out screening of No Other Land, which offers an unprecedented opportunity for Palestinian activists to have their voices heard, raised important funds and recruited new activists to the solidarity movement. Cas Smith reports.
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More than 9000 people joined 12 protests across the country to demand governments ban logging in native old-growth forests. Kerry Smith reports.
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Two unions, working together in Western Australia, are having some success in organising workers to demand that they be allowed to collectively bargain on their enterprise agreement. Chris Jenkins reports.
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Join rallies, marches and picnics on Trans Day of Visibility to send a clear message to parliament that we will not back down from protecting trans rights.
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Rising Tide climate activists disrupted Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s speech at the Lowy Institute, holding up a banner reading: “NUCLEAR LIES COST US ALL”. Tracey Carpenter reports.
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More than 1000 people rallied outside Parliament House to oppose Labor’s proposed anti-protest laws. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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A petition calling on NSW parliament to deliver a substantial pay rise and better working conditions for nurses and midwives, signed by more than 38,000 people, was debated. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Vigilantes, whipped up by local right-wing politicians and the NSW premier, attacked people occupying houses in Lismore, which have been vacant since 2022. Nick Fredman reports.
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Communities affected by Cyclone Alfred dumped flood-damaged belongings outside parliament and demanded action to prevent future climate disasters. Kerry Smith reports.
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The Maritime Union of Australia, together with community activists, rallied outside Danish shipping giant Maersk, demanding it stop sending weapons to Israel. Jim McIlroy reports.
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A rally was held outside New South Wales Parliament to oppose Labor’s latest crackdown on the right to protest. Matthew Piggot reports.
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Hundreds of people gathered outside Victorian Parliament House to oppose Victorian Labor’s introduction of the toughest bail laws in the country. Jacob Andrewartha and Kalindi Salvo Sampson report.
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Socialist Alliance launched its federal election campaign for the seat of Sydney and the New South Wales Senate with a diverse crowd of community fighters. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Israel has broken the ceasefire, launching a massive assault on Gaza and killing more than 400 Palestinians, including at least 100 children. Join snap rallies across the country to oppose the continuation of the genocide.
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Labor’s own Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has again urged it to raise JobSeeker and other welfare payments ahead of the federal budget. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Join marches across the country on March 23 to demand an end to native forest logging.
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A national day of action to demand an end to violence against women and femicide was organised by Australian Femicide Watch and the Red Heart Campaign. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Labor is defying a United Nations order to ensure the Wunna Nyiyaparli people of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region are able to decide how they develop their traditional land. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Socialist Alliance national co-convenor Sam Wainwright explains why the Socialist Alliance is campaigning at this election to cut military spending in half on the latest Green Left Show.
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A new report found that an income of $130,000 a year is required to avoid rental stress, but Labor has no plan to address extortionate rents, argues Isaac Nellist.
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Socialist Alliance is calling for a 50% cut in military expenditure and to use the $28 billion to address the urgent housing, cost-of-living and climate crises, argues Peter Boyle.
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Notwithstanding flooding rains and Cyclone Alfred delivering exceptional rains, inland and the Murray-Darling/Barka Rivers are struggling to survive a heating climate and the over-extraction of water. Tracey Carpenter reports.
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Suzanne James and David Shoebridge discuss the Australian Greens latest initiative to progress the legalisation of recreational cannabis.
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Socialist Alliance joins millions of people around the world and Australia in condemning Israel for relaunching its deadly bombing raids on Gaza.
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Two councils in Queensland have gone to war on homeless people, fining them for having to live in tents in parks. Justin Beevers reports.
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Suzanne James argues that the Australian Greens’ bill to legalise cannabis for personal use needs to protect the right to home grow from the mega-industry monster it will inevitably create.
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Barry Skinner asks if the expulsion of about 30 residents from Selwyn Street boarding houses in Paddington is to become the “New Sydney”?
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Jonathan Strauss argues that the emergency society faces is whether or not governments will act on the well-known evidence of the devastating impact of catastrophic climate change.
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Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to the occupied West Bank in Palestine. This is the first part of his account.
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Communities in Esmeraldas province in northern Ecuador have denounced the government’s failure to act following one of the country’s biggest oil spills in recent history, reports Ben Radford.
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The wave of student-led anti-government protests continues to grow in Serbia, sparked by an awning collapse at the Novi Sad train station that killed 15 people, reports Sofija Filipovic.
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Student protesters at India’s Jadavpur University, in West Bengal, were subjected to violent attacks while demanding that student elections be reinstated by the state government, reports Sandip Nayak.
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Thousands of Kerala’s 26,225 ASHA healthcare workers have been demonstrating for the past month seeking better pay and benefits, reports Karthik Preyeswary.
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Wave after wave of pro-Palestinian pro-human rights protesters disrupted New Zealand deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters’ state of the nation speech at Christchurch Town Hall on March 23, reports Saige England.
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Russian anti-war socialist and political prisoner, Boris Kagarlitsky, sent the following article from the penal colony in Torzhok, Russia, where he is serving a five-year sentence for “justification of terrorism”. It has been translated by Dmitry Pozhidaev.
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Women in Peru face high levels of gender-based violence and structural barriers to accessing abortion and contraception, reports Ben Radford.
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More than 200 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to El Salvador are being held under harsh conditions in the country’s Terrorism Confinement Centre. Meanwhile, the US is threatening further economic sanctions against Venezuela, reports Chris Slee.
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In the second part of our interview, Russian higher education trade unionist Pavel Kudyukin speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov about the crackdown on universities and the campaign to free leftist academics and others jailed for their political views.
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Salih Muslim, a prominent Rojava revolutionary leader and foreign affairs spokesperson of the Presidential Council of the Democratic Union Party, speaks to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the serious setbacks to building a new Syria.
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Construction crews swooped in and began digging up Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, reports Malik Miah.
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Unlike Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, trans rights and taxation, his Latin American policy is plagued by vacillations and uncertainties, a sign of his deepening reliance on a transactional approach to foreign policy, argues Steve Ellner.
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Pavel Kudyukin is co-chair of the University Solidarity trade union and a member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov spoke to Kudyukin about the situation of workers and trade unions in Russia.
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In the second part of his interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, Ukrainian democratic socialist Denys Pilash speaks about the rising global axis of extreme reaction being spearheaded by the United States, Israel and Russia and the need for a renewed internationalism.
Culture
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Just three weeks since No Other Land won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Academy Awards, Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten, kidnapped and tortured by Israeli settlers and the Israeli Defense Forces. But the deafening silence from the Academy has drawn condemnation, reports Isaac Nellist.
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Isaac Nellist reviews Mickey 17, the latest film from Oscar award winning director Bong Joon Ho, which skewers the despair and wackiness of capitalism.