Hundreds of Queensland teachers protested outside parliament, giving the Liberal National Party a fail on a range of issues. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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The Australian Education Union is demanding Victorian Labor stop delaying public school funding. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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Tamil university students announced the launch of a new Pongu Thamil campaign, in solidarity with Eelam Tamils living in the Sri Lankan state. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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Hundreds of activists from across Western Australia greeted Labor’s conference delegates with concerns over fracking, the AUKUS submarine deal and the refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Riley Breen reports.
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Ayman and Faisa Haboub explained to Peter Boyle why the Sudanese community in Sydney had called a Stand with Sudan rally.
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Yarra City Mayor Steve Jolly thinks the rapidly growing campaign against cuts to medical centres in Naarm/Melbourne may force a U-turn. Chloe DS reports.
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About 600 people gathered at the State Library to show solidarity with the Sudanese people facing a genocide by armed right-wing forces. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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Pro-Palestine community members, including a local basketball coach, shut down the Ferra weapons factory. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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The Jewish Council of Australia has called for united action to combat the far right and call out racism, rather than giving police more powers. Kerry Smith reports.
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More than 100 people attended a film screening of Gaza Surf Club in Ocean Grove. Tim Gooden reports.
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Despite NSW legalising voluntary assisted dying in 2023, the Liberals, backed by the religious-based aged care sector, have decided on a push to legalise the institutional denial of medical care. Suzanne James reports.
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Community members protested outside the United States’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — over its role in the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine. Kerry Smith reports.
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Blak Caucus called a rally to highlight the urgent need to deliver justice to those grieving their loved ones who died at the hands of NSW Police. TJ Wren and Rachel Evans report.
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The Australian Services Union is campaigning against the Fair Work Commission’s proposed restructure of their award, which the union says will take workers backwards. Pip Hinman reports.
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Anti-genocide and anti-AUKUS protesters rallied outside the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition to tell Labor it has no excuse for supporting companies complicit in genocide. Pip Hinman reports.
Analysis
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Mainstream commentary on net zero emissions ignores the science and buys into the Coalition’s political conundrum about how it comes back from the brink. Alex Bainbridge argues that Labor needs to do more.
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A new report shows a significant growth in support for transgender people across Australia. However, the lived experiences of trans people paint a darker picture. Josh Adams reports.
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Labor can be pushed to intervene and repower Tomago if enough unionists and community organisations demand it, argues Zane Alcorn. The dying coal industry will not simply say goodbye.
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Green Left Radio interview with Stephen Jolly about the community campaign opposing the closure of Cohealth services in Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington.
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Suzanne James speaks to Dr Amanda Cohn about the Liberals’ proposed anti-Voluntary Assisted Dying bill.
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Sonny Melencio, from the Party of the Labouring Masses (Philippines), spoke on the Green Left Show about the new wave of youth protests in the Philippines.
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Greater public funding of higher education and an end to the commodification of university education and research would be a basis for enhanced university governance and better staff and student experiences, argues Jonathan Strauss.
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The election of Democratic Socialist of America member Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is a great victory for socialists all around the world, because it was a popular rejection of Trumpism, argues Peter Boyle.
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While millions of people are falling into poverty due to skyrocketing rents and house prices, Labor should stop spending billions of our money on AUKUS, argues Isaac Nellist.
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Green Left journalist and veteran socialist activist Peter Boyle joins the Green Left Show to discuss how solidarity can defeat the racist ‘March for Australia’ movement.
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Eleven days before he was sacked, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam asked “whether any duly elected reformist government will be allowed to govern in the future?” Bevan Ramsden looks at the context of the dismissal.
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Anti-Zionist Jewish journalist Yaakov Aharon told a protest against the Indo Pacific weapons expo that Bisalloy Steel is a crucial part of the supply chain for Israel’s armoured vehicle fleet.
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Carbon capture and storage has long been presented as a magic bullet to solve the problem of decarbonising the energy system, but as John Quiggin argues, the statistics say otherwise.
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Gen Townsend joins Green Left Radio to talk about the Press on for Palestine project.
World
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Russian sociologist and anti-war political prisoner Boris Kagarlitsky was released from three days of solitary confinement to the relief of his supporters, reports Susan Price.
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Greens Senator David Shoebridge became the first Australian parliamentarian to visit the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also known as Rojava). He spoke with Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the visit.
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Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City was a kick in the teeth to United States President Donald Trump and a moment of hope for socialists around the world. To unpack the victory and the challenges ahead, Green Left’s Isaac Nellist spoke with Winnie Marion, a socialist activist based in NYC.
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In a historic victory for the left, Catherine Connolly won the presidential election in Ireland, becoming the first left candidate to win a majority of votes in a national election. Green Left’s Isaac Nellist speaks to Paul Murphy, Dublin-based ecosocialist and member of the Irish Parliament, about the significance of the campaign.
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Western Australian-based mining corporation Energy Transition Minerals lost its bid to overrule a 2023 decision by the Greenland government to reject its application to mine uranium and rare earths, reports Peter Boyle.
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In a follow-up interview with Indonesia’s youth activists, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg spoke to Ramzy and Romadon, from Salatiga in Central Java, about what sparked them to become activists and the political developments occurring at a local and regional level.
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Isaac Nellist speaks to Irish ecosocialist activist Paul Murphy about the presidential election campaign of Catherine Connolly, who won the presidency with a historic margin while standing for neutrality, against Israel’s genocide and for a more just and equal society.
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Farooq Sulehria looks behind the recent clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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The Tropical Forest Forever Facility, set to be launched at COP30, is designed to guarantee profits for corporations and governments in the Global North by deepening debt and financial dependency in the Global South, writes Ben Radford.
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Binoy Kampmark looks behind United States President Donald Trump’s controversial announcement on resuming nuclear testing, including the internal push for the US to modernise its nuclear arsenal.
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Baran Sogut speaks to Peter Boyle about the gains and challenges of the Rojava revolution and, in particular, about his visit to Kobane, a city that was liberated from several Islamic fundamentalist militias in 2014–15.
Culture
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The Party for the People and for Palestine, organised by Green Left, filled the Gumbramorra Hall at Addison Road Community Centre and raised much-needed funds, reports Jim McIlroy.
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Direct action organiser and activist Lilli Barto delivered this poem to a protest, organised by the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition, outside the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition.