NSW Labor had a chance to address the housing crisis in its election budget, but it barely included a mention. Jim McIlroy reports on how its new plan to subsidise private prefabrication and modular construction factories falls short.
News
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On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss NSW Police clearing the save Waterloo protest camp, campaigning for abortion rights in South Australia and Victorian school staff rejecting Labor’s shoddy pay offer.
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About 250 people gathered at Forrest Place to again protest Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and ongoing genocide in Gaza. Cas Smith reports.
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Hatam Yekta, a 36-year-old Kurdish refugee from Iran, is on the brink of death in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Kurdish human rights defender Dr Hawzhin Azeez spoke to Peter Boyle.
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Sarah Game, a former One Nation now Family First MP, has been pushing to restrict abortion rights in South Australia since last year but she recently failed again. Markela Panegyres reports.
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Supporters of free speech protested outside the Western Australian parliament as Labor’s bill to dramatically limit the right to protest was tabled. Janet Parker reports.
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Victorian teachers and education support staff voted against Labor’s enterprise agreement offer, rejecting the Australian Education Union’s advice to accept it. Chloe DS reports.
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Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union construction and maintenance members, employed by United Group Limited, are taking protected strike action to secure a new agreement without any loss of conditions. Tim Gooden reports.
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NSW Police have stormed the public housing protest camp at Waterloo Estate, forcibly removing residents and dozens of community members and arresting one. Pip Hinman reports.
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More guest speakers for Ecosocialism 2026 have been confirmed, including a First Nations leader, a Greens MP and activists from the United States, Malaysia, Brazil, Western Sahara and Australia. Fred Fuentes reports.
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Seven people were arrested at Justice for Palestine’s latest rally defying anti-democratic Queensland laws, which ban Palestine freedom slogans. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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As part of its joke climate resilience plan, the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is accelerating fracking for gas in the Beetaloo Basin. Stephen W Enciso reports.
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Socialist Alliance launched its Victorian election campaign for four lower house seats across the region. SA’s campaign slogan is “Fighting for People, NOT the Billionaires”. Tim Gooden reports.
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Public sentiment against a fundraiser, organised by Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce, meant the venue cancelled at the last minute, but the protest went ahead. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss protests outside Pauline Hanson’s One Nation events and the three-day picket of Bisalloy Steel.
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Thousands of allied health professionals went on strike to demand a fair wage, manageable workloads, action on gender-based undervaluation and stronger retention measures. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Wiradjuri and Yuin Redfern resident Angeline Penrith told a protest that Redfern is well into its gentrification, and everyone can see what has happened — under the guise of “progress”. Peter Boyle reports.
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About 50 people protested in defence of Foley House, accommodation for men with complex needs, outside the office of Labor MP Katie Hall in Footscray. Darren Saffin reports.
Analysis
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Anne Leggett’s life was commemorated at a private ceremony for friends, family and comrades at her home in Merewether. Below is an abridged obituary from Linda Alcorn and Pauline Dunne.
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Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart wants to advance the military industrial complex in Townsville, at least, and invite the Israeli war machine to develop and build their drones here. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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As right-wing editors sniff around for the opportunity to decisively shift politics to the right — to benefit the billionaires — working people’s only defence is to organise collective struggles for our rights, argues Sam Wainwright.
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Billionaire rule has been grossly unjust and patently unsustainable for a long time, but now it is revealing a new level of political toxicity, argues Peter Boyle.
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The new aged care law was promoted as the sector’s most significant reform in a generation. But, as Suzanne James writes, relying on a market-based system means that complex human needs come second.
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A new proposed drug driving regime in NSW is being criticised for its potential to target medicinal cannabis patients, with its proposal to set up a police database of users. Paul Gregoire reports.
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The current plan for Waterloo South is to demolish all public housing and build 3300 new homes. Alistair Sisson argues that Labor should revisit its previous commitments to public housing residents.
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Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, Australia has been the only one to be indifferent to the need for an inquiry into its merits, argues Binoy Kampmark.
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Wollongong Friends of Palestine set up a 300-strong community picket at Bisalloy Steel and two shifts have been successfully blocked. Kerry Smith reports.
World
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Calls are mounting on the United States and other countries to lift all sanctions against Venezuela in the wake of the devastating earthquakes, which have so far killed more than 950 people and injured thousands more, reports Kerry Smith.
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As 'Gen Z' youth revolts rock many countries in Asia, Peter Boyle spoke to Arveent Kathirtchelvan, a youth activist in the Socialist Party of Malaysia, about how right-wing politicians are channeling rising mass dissatisfaction into racist scapegoating of minorities.
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Venezuela suffered two successive major earthquakes on that caused devastating damage, reports Venezuela Analysis.
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The United States launched a military strike inside Venezuelan territory in a 'joint operation' with the Venezuelan government, on June 12, that reportedly killed Héctor “Niño” Guerrero Flores, an alleged leader of criminal group Tren de Aragua, reports Ricardo Vaz.
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Following Peru’s presidential run-off election, which was marred by irregularities and United States interference, it appears likely that far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori will become the country’s new president, reports Ben Radford.
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Two prominent Baloch human rights defenders were sentenced to life imprisonment, on June 22, under Pakistan's notorious anti-terrorism laws, reports Peter Boyle.
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Derek Wall, ecosocialist, writer and former coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales, recently told Green Left’s Isaac Nellist that the Green Party’s rise is giving hope to working people and the left. Meanwhile, Labour remains in a crisis of its own making.
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Reversing a previous outcome, four Palestine Action members received long sentences in Britain, for their role in a 2024 factory occupation at notorious Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems, reports Alex Bainbridge.
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On this episode of the Green Left Show, Isaac Nellist speaks to Derek Wall, prominent ecosocialist writer and activist and former coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales.
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla member Helen O’Sullivan, two weeks after returning to Australia, following her abduction and detention by the Israeli Occupying Forces, told Green Left the movement for a free Palestine must continue.
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While social movements in the rest of the region are pushing back against anti-popular economic policies, in Venezuela, the process of state restructuring has accelerated since the January 3 United States bombing, writes Manuel Azuaje Reverón.
Culture
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Mat Ward looks back at June's political news and the best new music that related to it.
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Green Left’s Bill Nevins spoke with Zayd Ayers Dohrn about the explosive themes in his new book, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground.