Disenfranchised, working-class voters looking to lodge a protest vote against the major parties helps explain the high vote for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Markela Panegyres looks at the issues in the South Australian election.
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Extinction Rebellion activists are focused on stopping Santos’ sportswashing and they told Markela Panegyres that their disruptive actions are educating people, including cyclists, about the dangers of climate change and the promotion of fossil fuel corporations.
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At a time when political views are often pieced together by social media content, cultural meeting points are valuable spaces that must be protected from censorship, writes Mariota S.
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Public outcry over the exclusion of high-profile Australian-Palestinian author and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from the Adelaide Writers’ Week culminated in the event being cancelled. Isabella Montana reports.
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After injecting $1.9 billion into the Whyalla Steelworks, Labor wants it run by private interests. Renfrey Clarke argues if taxpayers are to bear the cost, they are entitled to demand that the assets stay in public ownership.
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While concrete details remain patchy, job security is not the only troubling aspect of Premier Peter Malinauskas' decision to merge the University of Adelaide and UniSA. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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In a grim omen for the federal Coalition, South Australian voters threw out the four-year-old Liberal government. SA Labor, led by a former right-wing union official, faces some big challenges. Renfrey Clarke reports.