Anne Twomey, a constitutional lawyer at the University of Sydney, is concerned that new state and federal laws, allegedly to combat hate, are adversely impacting free speech. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s patronising descriptor of Grace Tame as “difficult” is the latest high-profile example of just how embedded misogynist prejudices are. Pip Hinman writes that women continue to bear the brunt of misogynistic attitudes and their inherent potential for violence and death.
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Stuart Rees argues that the present debilitating consensus in federal parliament is that loyalty to Israel and the United States is imperative, cruelty a sign of strength and that it’s wise to regret, but not resist, the breakdown of a world order.
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Labor’s handling of the so-called “ISIS brides” issue is the latest example of its willingness to fan the flames of racism and division, argues Peter Boyle.
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Virginia Bell has shut the door on a broader examination of racism, Janet Parker argues, confirming that antisemitism will be exceptionalised in this royal commission.
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With millions already struggling in a cost-of-living crisis, supermarket giants Coles is finally being investigated for price gouging. Isaac Nellist argues we should bring Coles and Woolworths into public hands.
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Socialist Alliance condemns the attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States and calls on the Australian Labor government to immediately reverse its support for this dangerous new drive to war.
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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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Watch the highlights from the Green Left forum on ‘Resisting genocide and police repression — Why is Labor criminalising freedom of speech?’.
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Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that Anthony Albanese’s Freudian slip, while playing a word association game, sums him up: White, misogynist and a loyal United States ally.
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Uncle Lionel Fogarty worked tirelessly on political campaigns for Aboriginal rights, while earnestly and consistently crafting provocative, complex poetry, writes Jim McIlroy.
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Sue Bull argues that while the allegations sound bad, there is no hard evidence of the CFMEU’s criminality in Geoffrey Watson’s report to the Queensland commission of inquiry into the union.