Episode 7: Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.
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Big Bird Backpackers is a specialty emergency accommodation service facing closure. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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“Build tenant power” rang out through the CBD streets in a housing justice rally organised by SEQUR — South East Queensland Union of Renters. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Margaret Kelly, a resident of the Barak Beacon Estate in Port Melbourne, told Green Left Radio she was angry with the Labor government’s decision to abandon its commitment to public housing. Conor Bond reports.
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Greens’ housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather discusses negotiations with Labor over its housing package, arguments for a rent freeze, the safeguard mechanism and the AUKUS nuclear submarines.
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Miguel Lawner — architect and former political prisoner — speaks to Taroa Zúñiga Silva about how Salvador Allende’s government improved the lives of Chileans in its first year.
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There are solutions to the housing crisis, but governments will have to be pushed to dismantle the developer and investor-driven policies, argues Isaac Nellist.
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In a win for those opposed to inappropriate development, Merri-bek council has rejected a proposed apartment building that would have blocked a neighbour’s access to sunlight. Darren Saffin reports.
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Colonial-era laws are still used to oppress LGBTQ+ Africans, writes Efemia Chela, but the struggle to organise grassroots mutual aid and for legal rights continues.
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A protest about soaring rents and a lack of housing affordability was organised outside Parliament House. Renfrey Clarke reports.
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Rachel Evans visits the Waterloo and Glebe public housing estates to speak to public housing tenants and activists about solutions to the housing crisis overshadowing the coming NSW election..
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Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.