Supporters of self-determination for West Papua joined together for the annual Morning Star flag raising at Leichhardt Town Hall. Peter Boyle reports.
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The fourth day of Rising Tide’s People’s Blockade ended on a triumphant note after multiple actions forced the NSW Ports Corporation to stop bringing coal ships into Newcastle Port. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Demilitarise Newcastle began a protest against weapons, with future actions planned at several locations. Kerry Smith reports.
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In a significant first, a New South Wales police officer was found guilty for the death in custody of Dunghutti teenager Jai Kalani Wright. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Tom Sulston from Digital Rights Watch told Alex Bainbridge that Labor’s social media ban for young people would lead to “likely harms”.
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Sensational reports of alleged thuggery and corruption in the construction industry have obscured the political treachery of Labor’s attacks on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, argues Sue Bull.
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Private generators regularly game the national electricity market to drive up wholesale prices, writes Max Chandler-Mather, and it’s time for a rethink on essential services like energy and childcare.
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The messiness of the social media ban for those under 16, as part of the Online Safety Act 2021, is becoming more apparent, writes Binoy Kampmark.
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in its latest report, said the combined revenue of the world’s 100 largest weapons corporations reached a record US$679 billion. Peter Boyle reports.
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The Antisemitism in Australia report is so methodologically flawed and ideologically driven, Gwenaël Velge argues it is less a study of hatred and more an instrument of propaganda — manufacturing the hatred it purports to condemn.
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New South Wales Labor has introduced new laws it claims are necessary after the neo-Nazi rally outside parliament. Paul Gregoire writes that many are questioning why NSW Police authorised the National Socialist Network protest in the first place.
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A former Australian army rifleman and a senior bureaucrat have revealed the depths to which Labor is prepared to go to revive offshore detention in Nauru. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Privatised energy, which delivers higher profits for energy corporations while degrading workers’ job conditions, is also sending power prices soaring. Renfrey Clarke argues the Coalition is seeking to hobble the energy revolution.
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The latest episode of the Green Left Show features Tom Sulston, from Digital Rights Watch, about the incoming social media ban, why it harms young people, what the alternatives could be and other issues related to digital privacy.
World
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Blanca Missé is an associate professor at San Francisco State University, a Workers’ Voice member, and active with the Ukraine Solidarity Network and the Labor for Palestine National Network. In part two of our interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Missé about the need to confront all imperialisms with a class-based internationalism.
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The Indian diaspora in the West is globally celebrated for its professional success and often cast as the “model minority”. Yet, a significant segment of this community has, paradoxically, become a pillar of support for right-wing, often xenophobic, movements in India and abroad, argues Aishik Saha.
Culture
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Green Left’s Susan Price spoke with Ibrahim Izzeldeen, from the Free Sudan Gazette, about this new media project and how it is centring Sudanese voices and ensuring that the struggle of the Sudanese people for their country’s future is visible in the international media landscape.