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10 solutions to ease the cost-of-living crisis

There are some very straight-forward solutions to ease the sustained cost-of-living crisis, as Peter Boyle outlines. But they require a redirection of public funds away from the corporate profits-first agendas of the major parties.

Housing activists say NSW Labor’s budget fails the test

Housing activists criticised the first Labor budget for failing to act on housing shortages affecting hundreds of thousands of people across New South Wales. Jim McIlroy reports.

As voter dissatisfaction with the major parties rise, is NSW heading for a kaleidoscope election?

NSW Labor is a clear favourite to win the March 25 election. But Suzanne James reviews the field and asks is Labor’s lead really as big as it looks?

Socialist Alliance's 'deep reach' shown at election campaign launch

Socialist Alliance’s “deep reach” in the north west of Melbourne was reflected at the launch of its election campaign. Chloe DS reports.

Residents demand Inner West Council consult them on urban planning

Residents told the Inner West Council it lack of consultation around its rezoning strategy was a serious misjudgement. Pip Hinman reports.

Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather: ‘Let’s build a movement to transform politics’

It is abundantly clear that billionaires run parliament. To take them on, we must build a party and movement capable of improving people’s lives outside the cycle of electoral politics, argues Max Chandler-Mather. 

‘Squatters in their own land’: Adelaide’s Aboriginal Tent Embassy 1972

Very few people know that an Aboriginal Tent Embassy was also set up in Adelaide in July 1972. Don Longo writes that this important protest event needs to be recused from historical obscurity.

‘Stop privatisation destroying lives’ says Victorian Senate candidate

Suzanne James spoke to trade unionist and Socialist Alliance candidate for the Victorian Senate Angela Carr about Australia’s economic and social equity crisis.

Pat O'Shane: 'The people of Zenadth Kes deserve better'

Socialist Alliance candidate for Leichhardt Pat O’Shane went on a listening tour of Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait). Kerry Smith reports.

Socialist candidate: 'System change urgently needed'

Green Left asked Rachel Evans, who is part of the NSW Senate ticket for Socialist Alliance, about some of the critical issues in the coming federal election.

Pat O’Shane eyes off Canberra: ‘I’m going to be a bulldozer’

Former New South Wales magistrate and Kuku Yalanji elder Pat O’Shane intends to take her trailblazing attitude to government to force much-needed change in the areas of climate, corruption and social justice.

Mental health workers speak out about pandemic challenges

Mental health workers Dr Nikola Leka and Sarah Ellyard spoke to Green Left about the mental health crisis exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.