GetUp has released how-to-vote recommendations for a number of seats in the coming election including in Leichhardt where Pat O'Shane is standing. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Continuing in the footsteps of North Queensland’s rich red history
North Queensland has a rich socialist history, with women, migrants and First Nations people playing a big role. Renee Lees reports.
Sri Lanka: Protesters demand regime change, demilitarisation of the state
The institutional integration of sports with the military has reproduced authoritarian sports cultures, writes Janaka Biyanwila. Popular protests demanding regime change are also about demilitarising the state.
Exposed: The $42 billion super tax rort
Superannuation tax concessions mostly help those on higher incomes and it has an impact on the way the climate emergency is tackled. Andrew Chuter explains how.
Greg Norman: Saudi Arabia’s sportswashing emissary
The rebranding of Saudi Arabia's blood-stained image using sports has been spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, palace coup plotter and figure behind the butchering of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Extreme heat, floods hasn’t stopped NSW gov’t from scrapping environmental planning law
The NSW government has scrapped planning laws aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions during and after the construction of new apartments. Ben Radford reports.
Incompetence and leadership failure in the ADF
Alex Salmon reviews Failures of Command, a book about a family's search for truth about their son's death just two months after his deployment to Afghanistan in 2012.
United States: Musk, social media and the national security state
Elon Musk — the world’s richest man and worth about $265 billion — is buying social media company Twitter, for $44 billion. If Musk was in Russia, Western propaganda would call him an “oligarch”, but since he is in the United States he is referred to as a “very...
End coal, protesters tell NSW deputy
More than 50 protesters defied the rain to call on Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional New South Wales Paul Toole to end coal. Charles Boag reports.
Quality universal public housing is possible
The Arkadia Building in Alexandria, close to transport and opposite Sydney Park, is a model of what government-supported affordable housing could look like, argues Andrew Chuter.
United States: Black women face double blow if ‘Roe vs Wade’ overturned
The stake for Black women and the working class in the fight for abortion rights and to become equal and full citizens is existential, writes Malik Miah.
More insecure, less pay: Why workers who risked their lives during the pandemic are much worse off today
While essential workers kept society running throughout the pandemic, governments and bosses have worked assiduously to undermine their pay and conditions. Fred Fuentes reports.