The NSW Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 was due to go to a lower house vote. However, a small but increasingly isolated group of MPs have proposed a host of last-minute amendments to delay its passage, reports Suzanne James.
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International security and the climate crisis
Suzanne James reviews a new book on the security implications of climate change and the sociopolitical, cultural and scientific factors that influence the black-ops diplomacy of foreign policy.
Greens senator Jordon Steele-John: Charting Australia’s pathway to peace
The pathway that Australia’s major political parties are putting us on is one where tensions in the region are escalating. But it does not have to be this way, argues Jordan Steele-John.
PSUV Sweeps Venezuela’s ‘Mega-Elections’
The United Socialist Party (PSUV) landed a comprehensive victory in Venezuela’s regional and local elections on November 21, winning 83% of the governorships, reports Paul Dobson.
West throws Palestinian rights groups to the wolves
The recent criminalisation of Palestinian human rights groups is the logical outcome of decades of impunity and repression against any challenge to Israel’s regime of apartheid, occupation and colonisation, reports Maureen Clare Murphy.
Is worker struggle reviving in Spain? A tale of two strikes
Spain is experiencing a wave of industrial unrest, as workers fight for secure jobs and to regain lost wages and conditions, reports Dick Nichols.
India: Farmers win an important victory
Fourteen months after the Narendra Modi government introduced new farm laws, the Prime Minister has had to announce their repeal in the face of unprecedented farmers’ resistance.
Denmark: Red-Green Alliance strongest party in Copenhagen following local elections
Following the recent Danish municipal elections, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Andreas Thomsen interviewed Eva Milsted Enoksen. Enoksen is a long time member of the Red Green Alliance (Enhedslisten) and a former member of the party’s Copenhagen leadership.
India’s Farmers Win a Historic Victory
Fourteen months after the Narendra Modi government bulldozed the parliament to introduce the new farm laws, the Prime Minister had to bow down to the unprecedented farmers’ resistance to announce a repeal of all the three contentious laws, reports Liberation. Fourteen...
The Australian surveillance state is very real. But it’s no product of the ‘plandemic’
In these paranoid times of mounting theories involving government control, it is somewhat sobering to acknowledge that the mass monitoring of the population is an offspring of the turn of the century, writes Paul Gregoire.
‘Can do capitalism’ is outdated and selfish
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been promoting “can do capitalism” when Australia needs policies that treat all equally, argues Stuart Rees.
Trans day of resistance marked
The Trans Day of Resistance was marked in Newtown with speakers addressing the ongoing struggle for rights by trans and gender diverse people. Pip Hinman reports.