The National Disability Insurance Scheme was built by decades of activist struggle. It will not be dismantled without a fight, argues Gabrielle McCutcheon.
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Shamikh Badra pays tribute to Caroline Graham, an activist who turned solidarity with Gaza into a living act of hope and resistance.
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Jacob Andrewartha speaks to Neysia Novaristia and Rizaldi Ageng Wicaksono about the ongoing struggle for democratic rights in Indonesia.
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The Anthony Albanese government’s decision to savage the National Disability Insurance Scheme ranks high in the scale of betrayals by neoliberal Labor governments, argues Graham Matthews.
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Chris Minns told a business summit last year that Labor’s planning changes were designed for them, which, as Ben Radford explains, means less public oversight and community engagement.
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Many nurses and midwives in NSW are unhappy with the Industrial Relations Commission's pay ruling, saying it does not address an undervalued profession. Pip Hinman spoke to Viola Morris.
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Anti-war protesters held a snap action outside the Downing Centre court to demand that charges against people protesting Israeli President Isaac Herzog are dropped. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The premise that sex work is inherently and inevitably high risk leads to a lack of support for legal reform. Barbarella Karpinski argues that danger is structured and sustained by law, stigma and urban planning.
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Women are at the forefront of struggles in Balochistan, a province in Pakistan that has long struggled for self-determination. Peter Boyle speaks to Sammi Deen Baloch, a young Baloch woman activist, about challenging state repression and patriarchy.
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Jacob Andrewartha argues that Angus Taylor’s “values-based” migration scheme is the latest example of the ruling class’ bid to ramp up racism and distract people from government failures in a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
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The symbolism of the Anzac Day legend from the very start has always obfuscated and minimised the truth of the 20th century wars, writes James Wyner.
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A community gathering outside a well-preserved apartment block in Marrickville heard from tenants and housing campaigners, who stressed the need for the block to remain accessible for low-income people. Isaac Nellist reports.