Many workers are now enjoying a four-day work week and a longer weekend every week due to a campaign run by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. Tim Gooden reports.
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Australia has previously blindly followed the United States into the war on terror and, as Cathy Eatock writes, now the Anthony Albanese government has, astoundingly, followed Scott Morrison into AUKUS, without a public discussion.
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Home affairs and immigration minister Tony Burke’s new immigration policy is a boost to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and its Trumpite politics of hate, racism and division, argues Sue Bolton.
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Journalist Mary Kostakidis, after the Zionist Federation of Australia dropped its case in the Federal Court against her, said it is a “humiliating withdrawal by them” because they did not stop her criticising Israel’s genocidal policies. Paul Gregoire reports.
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AUKUS is about so much more than submarines. Abigail Boyd argues that its more sinister part is AUKUS Pillar II, which is about warfighting using artificial intelligence, hypersonics and counter-hypersonics and electronic warfare.
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These are videos and podcasts from Ecosocialism 2026.
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The Ecosocialism 2026 conference, in Magan-djin/Brisbane, brought together ecosocialist, anti-colonial, feminist and anti-racist activists for an empowering exchange of ideas and experiences. Peter Boyle reports.
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Federal Labor maintained its support for the fossil fuel industry against community demands for genuine climate action, by voting down a motion that would have blocked the so-called Improved Native Forest Management system. The Greens were split on the vote. Alex Bainbridge looks at what is at stake.
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Administration was imposed on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union in Queensland because it supposedly brought bikies into the industry as union enforcers. But hearings have revealed that a major contractor was responsible for bikies intimidating CFMEU members. Jonathan Strauss reports.
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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.