Tom Sulston from Digital Rights Watch told Alex Bainbridge that Labor’s social media ban for young people would lead to “likely harms”.
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The messiness of the social media ban for those under 16, as part of the Online Safety Act 2021, is becoming more apparent, writes Binoy Kampmark.
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The Antisemitism in Australia report is so methodologically flawed and ideologically driven, Gwenaël Velge argues it is less a study of hatred and more an instrument of propaganda — manufacturing the hatred it purports to condemn.
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The fourth day of Rising Tide’s People’s Blockade ended on a triumphant note after multiple actions forced the NSW Ports Corporation to stop bringing coal ships into Newcastle Port. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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On the eve of COP30, and as the recovery effort from Typhoon Kalmaegi and Super Typhoon Fung-wong continued in the Philippines, Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke with environmentalist and socialist Khyl Ramos about the impact of these events, grassroots and government responses and the struggle for climate justice and ecosocialism.
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There are four vacant Mardi Gras board positions to be filled, as well as nine resolutions, including for Mardi Gras to disinvite NSW Police from marching in a formal parade float. Troy Thrace explains why Pride in Protest is campaigning to reclaim Mardi Gras’ protest history.
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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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The Australian Education Union is demanding Victorian Labor stop delaying public school funding. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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In a follow-up interview with Indonesia’s youth activists, Green Left’s Rebecca Meckelburg spoke to Ramzy and Romadon, from Salatiga in Central Java, about what sparked them to become activists and the political developments occurring at a local and regional level.
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Sonny Melencio, from the Party of the Labouring Masses (Philippines), spoke on the Green Left Show about the new wave of youth protests in the Philippines.
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Hundreds rallied against the Queensland government’s reimposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Alex Bainbridge 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.