While opinion polls show Pauline Hanson’s One Nation ahead of the Coalition, how substantial or transient this is remains a political question, argues Alex Bainbridge.
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Multiple government agreements have been made to “close the gap” but, as Peter Boyle writes, the 2025 Closing the Gap report reveals that most measures will not be reached by 2030.
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Rallies were held in major cities calling for the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned in Turkey for the past 27 years. Kerry Smith reports.
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Suzette Meade writes that former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen justified his authoritarianism, dressed up as “law and order”, to claim that “order” required the silencing of public voices. Now, NSW Premier Chris Minns is doing the same.
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When the masses chanted “Arrest Herzog”, they were not calling for vengeance but accountability, writes Shamikh Badra.
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Israel’s President Herzog has departed leaving less “social cohesion”, while politicians, justices and NSW Police have many questions to answer, writes Wendy Bacon.
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A protest outside deputy prime minister and defence minister Richard Marles’ electorate office demanded he end the two-way arms trade with Israel. Tim Gooden reports.
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Socialist Alliance has decided to run in all four of Djilang/Geelong’s lower house seats in the Victorian elections. Sue Bull reports.
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The police violence at the protest against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog reflects a deeper political failure of the system, argues Stuart Rees.
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Judith Treanor writes that had authorities facilitated a peaceful march, the huge protest against Isaac Herzog on Gadigal Country/Sydney would have concluded without incident, as it did in more than 30 other places across the country that night.
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Pip Hinman argues that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia has underscored the deep ties between Labor and the genocidal state of Israel.
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Janet Parker argues that even though the Bondi shooters had nothing to do with the peaceful pro-Palestine movement, the pro-Israel ghouls have seized on the tragedy and now seek to use it as a weapon to shut us down and shut us up. But they won’t succeed.