The Anthony Albanese government’s decision to savage the National Disability Insurance Scheme ranks high in the scale of betrayals by neoliberal Labor governments, argues Graham Matthews.
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Hungarian far-right president Victor Orbán’s fall represents a stinging ideological defeat for global neofascist and far-right movements and parties, argues Kevin B Anderson.
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Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a fictitious threat has left us without adequate fuel, food and transportation security, argues Bevan Ramsden.
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Refugee rights organisations say a new Labor bill gives three ministers extraordinary powers to prevent people fleeing a conflict zone from seeking asylum in Australia. Pip Hinman reports.
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Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that Anthony Albanese’s Freudian slip, while playing a word association game, sums him up: White, misogynist and a loyal United States ally.
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Chris Minns apologised to the 78ers in 2016 about police violence. Barbara Karpinski writes that police are still traumatising youth at an ever-increasing rate and that Mardi Gras has to acknowledge this.
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Public money must come with public obligations, argues Suzanne James. If publicly funded institutions are to serve a diverse population, they must operate on civic principles that apply equally to all.
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Zack Polanski was elected the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales last year. Former Greens leader Derek Wall looks at the impact Polanski is having on the party’s political message and popularity.
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Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê is launching an urgent humanitarian campaign in response to the escalating attacks on Rojava.
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NSW Police have fatally shot a person having a mental health episode already this year. As Paul Gregoire argues, it is a key justice issue for the state to fix.
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Nearly 100 delegates from two dozen unions and peace organisations discussed the need to build the peace movement and how to go about it. Tim Gooden reports.
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The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party government has prevented United Nations human rights experts from accessing prisons, youth detention centres and police watch houses, reports Kerry Smith.