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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After 40 years, The Pursuit of Happiness is being relaunched. Originally screened across the country and on the ABC, this feature film is about the ties that bind couples and nations. Kerry Smith reports.
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Graham Matthews argues that while it is important to go beyond the for-profit NDIS system, it is nevertheless wrong to call for the flawed scheme to be nationalised.
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Markela Panegyres spoke to Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a senior Googatha elder and anti-nuclear activist, who is leading a campaign against rocket and weapons testing on sacred Googatha Country.
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A recent High Court case, over undercover footage filmed inside a Victorian slaughterhouse, matters because whistleblowers have long played an important role in exposing exploitation that powerful interests would prefer to keep hidden. Greg McFarlane reports.
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Public Protection Safety Officers, a new armed quasi-police force, will be deployed across the Northern Territory’s public transport network, liquor stores and public housing from June. Briar Bailey reports.
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Two thousand council workers took strike action, for the first time in decades, after more than 12 months of failed bargaining. Stephanie M reports on the Australian Services Union action.
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More than 130 public homes in inner-city Waterloo will be destroyed within weeks, but many of the evicted residents still don’t know where they will be sent. Rachel Evans and Pip Hinman report.
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Graham Matthews joins the Green Left Show to discuss Labor’s planned cuts to the NDIS.
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Mark Gillespie writes about the inaugural radical 78er History Walk, where he links past struggles to the present, including the ongoing police violence against peaceful protesters.
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Defence minister Richard Marles’ announcement that he plans to raise military spending by $53 billion will help boost weapons’ company profits and shore up Australia’s position as deputy sheriff for the United States in the Asia Pacific, argues Isaac Nellist.