National Tertiary Education Union members at the University of Technology took protected industrial action to pressure management over a new enterprise agreement. Kerry Smith reports.
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Scientists and their union are speaking out against Labor’s funding cuts to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Major anti-government protests took place in the Philippines on September 21 — adding to the youth-led anti-government protests across the region. To get a sense of this movement, Green Left spoke to Sonny Melencio, chairperson of the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM).
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Hundreds of Queensland teachers protested outside parliament, giving the Liberal National Party a fail on a range of issues. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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The Australian Education Union is demanding Victorian Labor stop delaying public school funding. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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Greater public funding of higher education and an end to the commodification of university education and research would be a basis for enhanced university governance and better staff and student experiences, argues Jonathan Strauss.
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Peter Greste used a public forum to call for more whistleblower protections in public interest laws. Coral Wynter reports.
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In the wake of the dramatic demonstrations in Indonesia in August, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg speaks with two youth activists from the Central Java province — Dera from Maring Institute in Semarang and Akrom from the Indonesian youth struggle front in Salatiga — to get their take on this new youth-led movement.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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When not a single Labor government steps up to address the crises that are being falsely blamed on immigration — unemployment, housing shortages, crime and the cost-of-living rises — it gives space for the far right to spread their hate and division, argues Sue Bull.
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Veteran socialist activist and filmmaker Jill Hickson will be missed, but her legacy of powerful films, many of which were made with John Reynolds, live on. Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman reflect on her enormous contribution to creating a better world.
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As far-right and neo-fascist groups continue to push their reactionary agenda, seizing every opportunity to promote their racist and authoritarian solutions, Marcus Greville looks at what it takes to defeat the far right.