The crisis of affordable and secure housing is widely seen as the number one problem facing Australians and the generational pessimism is hard to miss. Jim McIlroy reports on the Australian Council of Trade Union’s welcome push for public housing.
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Zionist barrister Natasha Hausdorff will be a keynote speaker at the Jewish National Fund’s tour across Australia in September. Rosie Foster reports on her views, which whitewash Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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The City of Moreton Bay Council will permit unhoused people, who register with council, to camp in Wyllie Park under a new 12-month trial. Justin Beevers reports.
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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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More than 150 people joined a community-initiated anti-racism rally in Dandenong, where speakers with lived experience addressed the dangerous policy failures of both major parties. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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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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Candidates for Lutruwita Socialist Alliance are running in three local government areas in the upcoming Lutruwita/Tasmania council elections. Chris Jenkins and Pip Hinman report.
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More than 60 members and supporters of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance gathered amid South Australia’s dramatic Flinders Ranges to discuss plans to resist corporate plundering and nuclear waste dumping on their Country. Renfrey Clarke reports.
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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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Brazilian political economist and ecosocialist Sabrina Fernandes will be a keynote speaker at Ecosocialism 2026, in Magan-djin/Brisbane over September 11–13. Ahead of her visit to Australia, Fernandes spoke with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the importance of ecosocialist ideas in the fight for a better world.
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The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption investigating alleged illegal donations to the NSW Liberal Party has been told of the methods of a conservative Christian faction within its ranks. Jim McIlroy reports.