The NSW Coalition with the support of NSW Labor and the conservative crossbench have enacted laws which effectively ban direct actions. Greens MP Abigail Boyd describes the anti-democratic push to pass these draconian new laws.
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A nine year obscenity: The Australia-NZ resettlement deal
The refugee deal with New Zealand offers some mitigation to Australia's cruel refugee policy. But, as Binoy Kampmark writes, what happens to the many hundreds of others in detention?
Beetaloo Basin fracking inquiry gives gas industry more headaches
People travelled hundreds of kilometres by road from across the Northern Territory to put their opposition on the record for a Senate inquiry into shale gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. Hannah Ekin reports.
United States: Republicans attack abortion, LGBTI rights
The Republican Party is spearheading a reactionary drive against the hard-won gains of the women's liberation and LGBTI rights movements, reports Barry Sheppard.
Aged care workers demand fair wages and conditions
Aged care workers and nurses protested Regis Healthcare’s proposed agreement which attempts to weaken conditions and offer minimal wage rises. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Rally says stop privatisation of public housing land in Redfern
A fenced-off site at 600 Elizabeth Street, Redfern, is vacant public land that was previously 100% public housing. Now the NSW government wants to sell it to its property developer mates. Peter Boyle reports.
Environmentalists fear new uranium corporation risks Mulga Rock
Environment groups are concerned about the recent merger between Western Australia uranium hopeful Vimy Resources and Deep Yellow. Kerry Smith reports.
Stop the privatisation of land public housing land!
600 Elizabeth St, Redfern is vacant public land that was previously 100% public housing. But now the NSW Liberal-National Coalition government wants to sell it to property developers. The rally demanded 100% public housing on any redevelopment of this site. A free BBQ...
Push continues for voluntary euthanasia law in NSW
Dying With Dignity NSW and Go Gentle Australia and supporters of the voluntary assisted dying bill have pressed the case outside the NSW parliament. Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter report.
France: Mélenchon, Macron, Zemmour and the future of the left
Panos Petrou from the Rproject, Greece speaks with French anti-capitalist activist and commentator John Mullen about the upcoming French election.
Standing up for a free Palestine
A vigil for the release of Palestinian aid worker Mohammed El Halabi was organised on April 2. Kerry Smith reports.
Budgets, national economies and the global capitalist crisis
The integrated nature of the world's economies means that it is a fiction that national budgets are divorced from the global setting. William Briggs explains.