Green Left

Suzanne James spoke to NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge about the Greens push for a second Senator in South Australia, NSW and Queensland.

Climate Justice puts the people most affected by the crisis at the centre of the solution. Health Justice must do the same, argues Rehad Desai.

There was no altruism in the speed in which pharmaceutical companies developed successful vaccines. The very future of capitalism relied on science’s ability to keep the wheels turning, argues William Briggs.

The concerning number of new buildings with defects in Sydney is a result of the privatisation of the building certification process, developer greed and the neoliberal approach to planning in New South Wales.

Ben Courtice reviews Silent Earth, which describes the crisis of declining insect populations, but falls short on the solutions required to turn this around.

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

Kuku Yallanji woman and Socialist Alliance candidate Pat O'Shane condemned the shallowness of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's January 28 announcement about Reef funding. Morrison traveled to Cairns with environment minister Sussan Ley to announce $1 billion in funding...

Former New South Wales Liberal minister and sex discrimination commissioner Pru Goward claims that Grace Tame represents a failed generational baton-change for the women’s movement. She’s dead wrong, argues Pip Hinman.

Distinguished Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O’Shane is running for Socialist Alliance in the seat of Leichhardt. A retired barrister and a former New South Wales magistrate, she spoke to Alex Bainbridge about what fires her up and why she decided to contest the federal...

Invasion Day in 1972, when the Tent Embassy was set up, dawned bright in Sydney, New South Wales. As far as I have been able to ascertain, history doesn’t record what the day was like in 1778 when Captain Arthur Phillip sailed into what is now known, variously, as...

On the streets of Derry in British-occupied Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972, writes Stuart Munckton, British soldiers opened fire on an unarmed civil rights protest. Forteen civilians — six of them teenagers — died in the massacre remembered as Bloody Sunday.

Rio Tinto's plan to mine lithium in Serbia has been scuttled in the wake of Novak Djokovic's deportation and against a backdrop of huge anti-mining protests and the country's upcoming elections in April, reports Binoy Kampmark.