Two councils in Queensland have gone to war on homeless people, fining them for having to live in tents in parks. Justin Beevers reports.
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In the second part of our interview, Russian higher education trade unionist Pavel Kudyukin speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov about the crackdown on universities and the campaign to free leftist academics and others jailed for their political views.
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The Maritime Union of Australia, together with community activists, rallied outside Danish shipping giant Maersk, demanding it stop sending weapons to Israel. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Suzanne James argues that the Australian Greens’ bill to legalise cannabis for personal use needs to protect the right to home grow from the mega-industry monster it will inevitably create.
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Hundreds of people gathered outside Victorian Parliament House to oppose Victorian Labor’s introduction of the toughest bail laws in the country. Jacob Andrewartha and Kalindi Salvo Sampson report.
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Socialist Alliance launched its federal election campaign for the seat of Sydney and the New South Wales Senate with a diverse crowd of community fighters. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Barry Skinner asks if the expulsion of about 30 residents from Selwyn Street boarding houses in Paddington is to become the “New Sydney”?
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Labor’s own Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has again urged it to raise JobSeeker and other welfare payments ahead of the federal budget. Isaac Nellist reports.
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A diverse group of union activists, running under the banner of Members Coalition, is contesting the Public Service Association of NSW elections for Central Council delegate and executive positions. Kerry Smith reports.
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Peter Boyle reports on the historic agreement struck between the revolutionary forces in northeastern Syria, known as Rojava and Syria's transitional government.
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The University of Sydney’s threat to suspend Luna, a transgender refugee, for writing pro-Palestine messages on a whiteboard has drawn attention to its repression of campus activism. Pride in Protest reports.
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The claim by capitalist economists that growing the ‘economic pie’ is the only way out of the cost-of-living crisis is a bald-faced lie to make the billionaire class richer. Peter Boyle reports.