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Cost-of-living pressures and the economy are critical issues in most election campaigns, and they certainly are in this one. William Briggs reports.

A wave of protests has spread throughout Sri Lanka in recent weeks, sparked by an economic crisis. Chris Slee reports.

Canberra's bullying of the Manasseh Sogavare government for its deal with China follows from its longstanding paternalistic approach on the existential matter of rising seas. William Briggs reports.

David Shoebridge, the Greens lead Senate NSW candidate, joined other speakers in calling for the Australian government to condemn the Turkish invasion of South Kurdistan (northern Iraq) just as it has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Other speakers at the...

A central theme at the 2022 May Day march in Sydney was that Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal-National Coalition government had to be voted out in the May 21 federal election. The march began at Sydney Town Hall and ended in outside NSW Parliament House. Music...

In the lead-up to a federal election, some May Day rallies across Australia from April 30 to May 2 were bigger than usual. Kerry Smith reports.

Phil Sandford had two consuming passions: jazz and revolutionary socialism, writes Derek Mortimer. 

Housing is human right was the theme of the Housing Alliance lutruwita/Tasmania and Grassroots Action Network Tasmania protest outside Parliament House on April 30. The protest was addressed by renters, mortgage payers, aspiring homeowners and the displaced.

The Tigrayan community of Sydney rallied and marched through the city on April 30 to call for Australian and international solidarity in the face of the ongoing genocidal attacks from the Ethiopian and allied Eritrean and Amhara armed forces since November 4, 2020....

A protest Liberal candidate Katherine Deves' views on transgender people was organised in Manly. Rachel Evans reports.

Socialist Alliance candidate for Leichhardt Pat O'Shane talked to Green Left's Isaac Nellist about what issues are crucial to her campaign; housing, healthcare, education and First Nations rights. Pat O'Shane is a Kuku Yalanji woman and a retired magistrate. Her...

Mat Ward looks back at April's political news and the best new music that related to it.