On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss rallies to stop Labor's cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme and upcoming protests for Nakba Day.
News
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A recent High Court case, over undercover footage filmed inside a Victorian slaughterhouse, matters because whistleblowers have long played an important role in exposing exploitation that powerful interests would prefer to keep hidden. Greg McFarlane reports.
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Solar Citizens has criticised the budget for not assisting renters — about a third of the population — obtain access to cheaper energy. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The Civil Liberties Defence Centre was launched at a packed-out and star-studded event in Lidcombe. Stephen Langford reports.
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Public Protection Safety Officers, a new armed quasi-police force, will be deployed across the Northern Territory’s public transport network, liquor stores and public housing from June. Briar Bailey reports.
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Hundreds of people protested in cities across the country against the federal Labor government’s cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Kerry Smith reports.
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A few hundred people attended a moving silent ceremony at Sydney Town Hall for Kumanjayi Little Baby, one of many around the country. Coral Wynter reports.
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Two thousand council workers took strike action, for the first time in decades, after more than 12 months of failed bargaining. Stephanie M reports on the Australian Services Union action.
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Unionists rallied outside the United States Consulate, calling for an end to the US bombing of Iran. Jim McIlroy that they also highlighted the great cost of US wars on Australian workers.
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Climate campaigners say NSW Labor’s decision to open the state’s west to gas exploration companies will harm the environment and make the transition to benign energy more difficult. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Join the national day of action to protect the NDIS on May 9.
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Jews Against the Occupation ’48 organised a “From Gadigal to Gaza Origami Flotilla” action at Coogee Beach in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla and the people of Gaza. Judith Treanor reports.
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On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss anti-war campaigning and international solidarity with Cuba, Iran, Lebanon and Palestine.
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The first three activists arrested for defying Queensland anti-free speech laws faced court this week. Jonathan Strauss reports.
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Hundreds of community preschool early child educators, members of the Independent Education Union of Australia NSW/ACT, rallied outside NSW Parliament for better pay and working conditions. Rachel Evans reports.
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Members of the National Tertiary Education Union are taking protected industrial action for a better wages offer and improved conditions. Solomon Doyle reports.
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Workers across Australia joined millions around the world in marking May Day as the symbol of class solidarity and internationalism.
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More than 130 public homes in inner-city Waterloo will be destroyed within weeks, but many of the evicted residents still don’t know where they will be sent. Rachel Evans and Pip Hinman report.
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At least 350 people attended the annual Appin Massacre Memorial Day event, which blended mourning with a celebration of survival. Stephen Langford reports.
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Workers across eight councils are gearing up for a historic 24-hour strike in what is set to be the biggest industrial action in local government in many decades. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Analysis
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Jews Against the Occupation ’48 is calling on the Australian government to show some backbone and defend Palestinian human rights and international law.
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Recent reports suggest that the Western Australian Labor government is planning on pushing ahead with its net-zero plan but without emission reductions targets. Maz Misiewicz reports.
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Labor is boasting that its latest budget delivers the most significant transformation of the tax system in a quarter century. But, as Peter Boyle argues, this is more spin than reality.
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Graham Matthews, the Socialist Alliance spokesperson on disability rights, said the budget is a vicious attack on people living with disability.
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The Pauline Hanson’s One Nation’s victory in the Farrer by-election is an advance for racist, anti-immigrant and right-wing politics. Jacob Andrewartha and Sue Bolton argue that it can be countered.
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If developers have their way, the Bays West redevelopment will likely end up as a “Barangaroo 2.0” — a privatised waterfront enclave for wealthy residents and investors. Ben Radford reports.
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The rapid deployment of new data centres to power artificial intelligence systems, such as chatbots and generative AI, has enormous and possibly damaging implications for energy systems and the climate, argues Isaac Nellist.
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If there is a crisis in the NDIS, the problem was never participants. Kyle Montgomery argues that the waste came from provider fraud, price gouging and privatised inefficiency.
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Ali Keshtkar argues the Iran war has exposed the underlying contradictions of an economy already organised around property speculation, financialisation and energy profiteering.
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The massive investment in data centres to power rapid artificial intelligence growth has come under scrutiny for their enormous energy and water use. On this episode of the Green Left Show, Isaac Nellist talks to Ketan Joshi, Abigail Boyd and Sanaa Shah about the impact of data centres on climate and communities.
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Peter Boyle spoke to Graham Matthews, the Socialist Alliance spokesperson on disability rights, about the proposed cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme in the upcoming budget.
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Warren Smith from the Maritime Union of Australia said Dubai Port World’s push to automate its container terminal operations at four terminals across the country is a union-busting exercise. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Noongar man and unionist Clint Uink told the May Day rally on Whadjuk Noongar Country that truth-telling and political education can challenge and replace the system that harms workers.
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In her submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, Janet Parker writes that while antisemitism does exist, the only discrimination, harassment and abuse she has experienced has come from supporters of Zionism in the Jewish community.
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Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla and abduction of civilians, including Australians, demands an explanation, argues Shamikh Badra.
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Graham Matthews joins the Green Left Show to discuss Labor’s planned cuts to the NDIS.
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Video of Alex Bainbridge speaking at the Justice for Palestine weekend of action against pro-genocide laws.
World
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Elias Jaua, who explained how Venezuela came to be “militarily occupied and subjected to a policy of coercive tutelage” and why Venezuelans will need to wage a struggle for national liberation.
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Working people across the United States marched and rallied on International Workers’ Day to protest Donald Trump’s authoritarian regime and its anti-worker, pro-billionaire policies, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.
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Three pro-Palestine activists in Singapore have been found guilty under the Public Order Act and fined, after the High Court upheld an appeal on April 30, overturning their earlier acquittal, reports Susan Price.
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While the United States-Israeli war against Iran and Lebanon has distracted world attention, Israel has intensified its genocidal attack against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, reports Barry Sheppard.
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A Center for Economic and Policy Research report identified the intensification of United States sanctions against Cuba as the primary cause of a 148% increase in the island’s infant mortality rate. Marx del Rosario reports.
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This year’s Ecosocialism conference will, for the first time, be held in Magan-djin/Brisbane, once again drawing ecosocialists and activists from across the world, reports Fred Fuentes.
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A coalition of women’s organisations in North and East Syria (Rojava) have launched a mass campaign, “We are all YPJ — Self-defence is our natural right”, demanding that the Rojava revolution’s Women’s Protection Units be included in Syria’s integrated armed forces, reports Peter Boyle.
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Notwithstanding all the death and destruction meted out by the United States and Israel against Iran, they have failed to achieve victory and exposed the limits of US imperialism, writes Dave Holmes.
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Graduating students in Kobakma town, in Indonesian occupied West Papua’s Central Mamberamo Regency, were attacked by security forces, on May 5, for carrying their national flag in a celebratory parade, reports Susan Price.
Culture
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In Turbulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era, Clinton Fernandes looks at the implications for Australia as United States President Donald Trump and his government upend the so-called “international rules-based order”. Darren Saffin reviews.
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Gisèle Pelicot was secretly drugged, sexually assaulted and raped by her husband Dominique and 50 other men over a 10-year period. Mary Merkenich reviews her story.
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Try Me For Treason showcases recent testimony given in Russian courts by Russian and Ukrainian opponents of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, writes Dave Mitchelmore.