While Australia’s minister for war Richard Marles came back from the annual “Shangri-La dialogue” selling AUKUS like never before, a people’s inquiry into AUKUS has been launched. Pip Hinman reports.
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Unruly WA, a multi-media exhibition, at the Kidogo Arthouse in Walyalup, brings together artists, photographers and other storytellers to “celebrate political dissent while it is still legal”. Cas Smith reports.
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London-based academic Penny Green, who visited Rohingya refugees forced to flee Myanmar to the Cox’s Bazaar camps in Bangladesh, and Rohingya refugee Mohammed Zuhar addressed a Refugee Action Collective forum. Chris Slee reports.
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NSW Premier Chris Minns continues to defend his NSW Labor government’s anti-protest laws, despite the NSW Court of Appeal striking them down as unconstitutional. Pip Hinman reports.
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Author Mark Whitaker was the first African American editor of Newsweek. Malik Miah reviews his 2025 book, The Afterlife of Malcolm X, where he sets out to explore Malcolm’s legacy and impact in the decades since his assassination nearly 60 years ago.
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United States President Donald Trump is considering launching military action against Cuba, following decades of failed attempts by US imperialism to destabilise the island nation and destroy its socialist project, reports Malik Miah.
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The United States has launched fresh attacks on southern Iranian territory, raising concerns about the fate of the Pakistan-mediated peace talks, reports Abdul Rahman.
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A secret government report said that while Port Kembla is the assessment’s preferred site for an East Coast nuclear submarine base, Muloobinba remains under consideration. Steve O’Brien reports.
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The Socialist Alliance has condemned the United States Department of Justice’s decision to reopen a three-decades-old case against former Cuban president Raúl Castro and called on Labor to speak out against military action against the Caribbean nation.
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Sarah Glynn examines two recent blows to democracy in the Kurdish region of the Middle East.
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The detention and humiliation of Global Sumud Flotilla activists not only reveals Israel’s approach to Gaza, it raises questions about Australia’s response to an ally that is responsible for genocide, writes Shamikh Badra.
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Foreign minister Penny Wong joined the international condemnation of Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over a video of him abusing Global Sumud Flotilla activists, but still refuses to cut ties with Israel. Isaac Nellist reports.