The gas leak at Viva refinery, the result of machinery failures, is no surprise for locals, who say the company is not spending enough on safety and maintenance. Sue Bull reports.
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Australia loses $31 billion each year to gambling and children continue to be stalked in ever-inventive ways by sports betting vultures. But, as Suzanne James writes, Labor has squibbed on bringing in real reforms.
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United States President Donald Trump has announced a military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, while in response, Iran warned that it would block all exports and imports across the region should the blockade continue. Kerry Smith reports.
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It is investors, not migrants, that are driving the housing affordability crisis in their never-ending pursuit of profits, reports Isaac Nellist.
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The Fair Work Commission’s landmark decision to abolish some junior rates is a positive step, but Isaac Nellist argues that the deck is still stacked against young people.
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Corporate CEOs are paid, on average, 55 times what they pay their workers, yet give themselves double-digit pay rises. Peter Boyle argues the ACTU should be demanding a 10% rise in the minimum wage.
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Santiago Mayor interviews Reinaldo Iturriza, a Venezuelan sociologist, writer and political activist, about the state of Chavismo following the United States’s attacks on Venezuela.
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Human rights groups have denounced the United States and Ecuadorian governments’ joint military operations in Ecuador, which are being conducted under the guise of combating “organised crime”, Ben Radford reports.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke with Venezuelan leftist Luis Fernando Marquez, a National Agrarian Alliance founding organiser and Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy activist, about his views on events since the January 3 United States military incursion.
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The Lock the Gate Alliance has hit out at federal environment minister Murray Watt’s approval of almost 1700 new coal seam gas wells in Queensland, saying it will negate the net zero promise. Alex Bainbridge talks to Ellen Roberts.
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The United States and Israel’s illegal war on Iran and Lebanon is not only causing the widespread death and displacement of innocent people, Ben Radford argues it adds urgency to the need for an energy transition.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre, authors of Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown, to better understand the shifting dynamics within the global imperialist system.