The Northern Territory is once again set to debate a voluntary assisted dying bill, 30 years after being robbed of its world-first assisted law. Suzanne James reports.
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Mohammed Hamad, a clinical nutritionist working at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, told Jude Alexander about the ongoing difficulties Palestinians have to deal with as the war and blockade continue.
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The three-day inquiry into Labor’s devastating National Disability Insurance Scheme bill has been extended, after disability advocacy and human rights organisations outlined the significant risks to NDIS participants if it were to become law. Graham Matthews reports.
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The rise of One Nation comes off the back of four decades of neoliberalism delivering declining wages, less union strength and a worsening housing crisis. Zane Alcorn argues that a robust campaign for public housing could help take the wind out of its sails.
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Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart wants to advance the military industrial complex in Townsville, at least, and invite the Israeli war machine to develop and build their drones here. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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As 'Gen Z' youth revolts rock many countries in Asia, Peter Boyle spoke to Arveent Kathirtchelvan, a youth activist in the Socialist Party of Malaysia, about how right-wing politicians are channeling rising mass dissatisfaction into racist scapegoating of minorities.
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Two prominent Baloch human rights defenders were sentenced to life imprisonment, on June 22, under Pakistan's notorious anti-terrorism laws, reports Peter Boyle.
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Hatam Yekta, a 36-year-old Kurdish refugee from Iran, is on the brink of death in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Kurdish human rights defender Dr Hawzhin Azeez spoke to Peter Boyle.
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Sarah Game, a former One Nation now Family First MP, has been pushing to restrict abortion rights in South Australia since last year but she recently failed again. Markela Panegyres reports.
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Supporters of free speech protested outside the Western Australian parliament as Labor’s bill to dramatically limit the right to protest was tabled. Janet Parker reports.
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As right-wing editors sniff around for the opportunity to decisively shift politics to the right — to benefit the billionaires — working people’s only defence is to organise collective struggles for our rights, argues Sam Wainwright.
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On this episode of the Green Left Show, Isaac Nellist speaks to Derek Wall, prominent ecosocialist writer and activist and former coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales.