Australia and Türkiye will, unconventionally, share the “presidency” of the world’s biggest climate summit, COP31. While they present themselves as climate leaders, both are seeking to expand dangerous fossil fuel production. Önder Algedik reports.
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Nine-year-old Mira Hamad, living in Gaza, witnessed a bomb destroy her next-door neighbour. She now lives with the trauma. Jude Alexander spoke to her, her father and NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge about the bomb and Australia’s connection to Israel’s computerised slaughter.
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Australian Defence Force whistleblower David McBride was released on parole for leaking classified documents about war crimes in Afghanistan to the ABC which revealed a culture of cover-up in the field. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Abby Martin joins the Green Left Show to speak about the US military’s climate record.
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Students have demonstrated moral leadership in this country by walking out of class to reject racism and One Nation’s destructive vision for the future. As Peter Boyle writes, Gen Z’s overwhelming rejection of One Nation needs to be backed up by the trade unions.
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Even in this wealthy country, where welfare remains at poverty-level, we face the prospect of mass unemployment as artificial intelligence and other new technologies replace jobs. Peter Boyle argues that as capitalism takes us deeper into crisis, we need to build solidarity to resist the toxic billionaire class.
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Izzy from Fight the Crisis, activists organising for a better deal inside the Australian Education Union, joined Green Left Radio to discuss Victorian Labor’s poor offer to teachers.
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While home affairs minister Tony Burke’s expected announcement of new anti-immigration measures has been postponed, migrant workers, refugees and international students have already been hit by big rises in discriminatory visa fees. Peter Boyle reports.
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Sue Bolton writes that new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is using a bill to close down the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, which has a good record on organising workers to win real gains and is a political threat to his base in the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association.
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Wollongong Against War and Nukes has joined with many others to oppose plans to turn Port Kembla into a military town. Melanie Barnes canvasses the arguments about why AUKUS will make Port Kembla and the region less safe.
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NSW Labor is set to introduce a bill to give NSW Police the power to require people to provide access to their digital devices during more routine arrests. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Socialist Alliance opposes the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence data centres being pushed by the Victorian Labor government, as they have no social license and are being driven by corporate greed.