We can push back against capitalist politicians and their billionaire mates by getting better organised and using our collective power. Jacob Andrewartha argues this is why Socialist Alliance puts its energy into organising with others in struggle.
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Former Greens leader Bob Brown said Australia is “culpable” for the devastation in Nepal because it was not acting seriously on the dangers of carbon emissions changing the climate. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Premier Chris Minns is allowing NSW Police to continue drone surveillance on Gomeroi Country in Moree for two more years, despite having done no assessment about how effective the drones have been in preventing crime. Paul Gregoire reports.
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The disaster in Nepal, Tibet and China has been described as being like a “horror movie” — only it is too real to ignore the fact that climate change is the greatest security threat of our time. Pip Hinman argues for the need to challenge Australia’s head-in-sand approach.
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Sam Wainwright explores some of the lessons for progressives from One Nation’s victory in the Secret Harbour by-election.
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With the deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu spreading across Australia and devastating wildlife, federal, state and territory governments need to be better prepared to manage this environmental and conservation crisis. Euan Ritchie argues that it is not too late.
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A federal inquiry has heard accounts of widespread abuse, harassment and structural discrimination against First Nations people. Ben Radford reports.
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Anthony Albanese once said that John Howard’s push to give the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation the power to arrest, detain and coerce people was a “draconian measure”. Now, as Peter Boyle writes, Labor has given ASIO new powers to do just that.
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Karen Fletcher, executive officer at Flat Out, joined Green Left Radio to discuss the Victorian government’s proposed bill attacking prisoners’ human rights.
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Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong’s hand-wringing over the death of Zomi Frankcom is gobsmacking in its selective outrage about Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. Pip Hinman and Sam Wainwright argue it is calculated to take the focus away from its steady alliance with the apartheid state.
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Justice Desmond Fagan’s decision in State of New South Wales v Farhat wrecks the architecture designed by Jillian Segal, adopted by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and enforced across Australia, writes Andrew Brown.
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Loukas Kakogioannis, from the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, joined Green Left Radio to talk about the recent attempt by the Victorian Labor government to deregister the union.