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Netflix documentary Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story attempts to explain how TV celebrity Jimmy Savile's ties to the British ruling class enabled him to get away with sexual abuse for decades, writes Alex Salmon.

Boat turn backs don’t save lives at sea. The real meaning of this barbaric practice has always been “Fuck off and die somewhere else”, argues Sam Wainwright.

Global military spending rose last year to more than US$2.8 trillion, an average of more than $8.1 billion every day, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Kerry Smith reports.

The inaugural and successful Dare to Struggle Film Festival (DTSFF) was held in Sydney on April 22‒23, reports Jim McIlroy, featuring more than 50 films on a variety of campaigns.

Scott Morrison said he’s “blessed” to have had two children who are not living with disability. Graham Matthews argues that considering the mess he's made of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, this may just be one of the few honest statements he’s made....

The Refugee Action Collective called a rally outside the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) in Broadmeadows to demand freedom for those inside. Chris Slee reports.

Green Left speaks to Partido Lakas ng Masa representative Reihana Mohideen about the current elections in the Philippines. Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses, PLM) and Laban ng Masa (Fight of the Masses) are jointly contesting the May 9 national...

Andrew Chuter, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Sydney, is a respected public housing, transport, resident action and trade union activist. He spoke to Peter Boyle about the practical vision for a socialist future that he is seeking to paint through a series of...

ANZAC Day has become a parade for amnesia rather than reckoning, a ritual that rejects peace makers and conciliators in favour of the war mongers and undertakers, argues Binoy Kampmark.

While the Solomon Islands is divided on the security deal with China, Australia's major parties have been shouting from the same song book. Binoy Kampmark reports. 

The Australian government’s labyrinthine callousness and indifference to justice in its treatment of lawyer Bernard Collaery must be slotted in alongside that of another noted Australian being held in the maximum-security facility of Belmarsh, London, writes Binoy...

A tidal wave of outrage followed the Solomon Islands and China signing a security deal. William Briggs argues that missing in the fury is any recognition that the Solomon Islands, a sovereign state, is seeking to promote its “national interests”.