Human rights organisations and Kurdish-Iranian refugee activist Behrouz Boochani have condemned Labor's new racist anti-asylum seeker laws. Chloe DS reports on the community outcry.
Analysis
Senators Lidia Thorpe, Fatima Payman and Mehreen Faruqi are using their positions to fight back against the systemic racism that Senator Pauline Hanson represents, argues Pip Hinman.
Stefan Skibicki was a working-class intellectual, with a dry wit and a love of heavy metal music. Pip Hinman and Susan Price reflect on the huge contribution he made to popularising ecosocialism.
“We have been hoping and waiting in vain,” Jews Against the Occupation ‘48 states in an open letter to the Prime Minister. “Nothing in the past twelve months has propelled you into meaningful action.” See below to sign on.
The major parties want to entrench a system of unfairly distributed electoral funding and corporate donations to pay for their manipulative misinformation campaigns, and to stir up racism, misogyny and bigotry against minorities. Peter Boyle reports.
While the success or failure of ICC warrants rely on countries’ observance of international human rights conventions, the warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant have boosted the global pro-Palestine movement. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Japan was invited for the first time to discuss joining AUKUS with Australia and the United States at a meeting of defence ministers in Darwin. Paul Gregoire reports.
While UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged COP29 delegates to act urgently on mitigating rising temperatures, the fossil fuel industry heard the sound of money changing hands. Binoy Kampmark reports.
NSW Labor blames overworked workers, but the Australian Medical Association says the NSW Health budget is “failing to meet patient demand”. Suzanne James reports on cuts being planned for Cootamundra.
Donald Trump’s victory has sent a wave of depression around the world, especially after the right-wing advances in Europe and the anti-immigrant race riots in England. Peter Boyle argues that the challenge for progressive movements has never been greater.
If “journalism is the first draft of history”, the billionaire-owned establishment media’s “first draft” is often full of gaslighting and lies. Alex Bainbridge argues that coverage of the racist violence of Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam is one glaring example.
Former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery maintains that the decriminalisation of cannabis would benefit the community, including by removing criminal profiteering in the drug market. Paul Gregoire reports.
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