Pas Forgione reports that, after nearly three and a half years in office, South Australian Labor has barely made a dent in the state’s acute housing shortage.
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SA Labor MP taken to task over rising homelessness
Pas Forgione reports that, after nearly three and a half years in office, South Australian Labor has barely made a dent in the state’s acute housing shortage.
Malaysian socialist: ‘Socialism provides the framework to unite our struggles’
Amanda Shweeta Louis, Socialist Party of Malaysia member and chairperson of their youth wing, Pemuda Sosialis, spoke to Green Left’s Isaac Nellist about the commercialisation of Malaysia’s education system, solidarity with Palestine and why young Malaysians are...
Reject WA Labor’s ‘Post and Boast’ anti-protest bill
Western Australian Labor’s proposed amendment to the Criminal Code, dubbed the “post and boast bill”, could easily be used against grassroots groups seeking to force Labor to act on various reforms. Maz Misiewicz reports.
’60 Minutes’ program propaganda for greedy Australian mining company and Trump’s Greenland takeover
Mariane Paviasen Jensen, a Greenland MP for the Inuit Ataqatigiit party and prominent environmentalist, has described a 60 Minutes Australia program that aired on August 10 as a “propaganda broadcast” for Australian mining company ETM, reports Peter Boyle.
Solidarity groups say Palestine recognition is ‘not enough’
Pro-Palestine groups and individuals have responded to Labor's announcement about recognising Palestine as a state with demands that it take concrete measures to stop Israel’s genocide now. Alex Bainbridge reports.
Trump allows Chevron to operate in Venezuela, doubles reward for Maduro’s arrest
United States policy towards Venezuela took another surprising turn with the announcement that US oil giant Chevron could return to the South American nation, reports Federico Fuentes.
Vic Labor’s new anti-protest laws condemned
The Defend Dissent Coalition organised a protest against Labor's “Social Cohesion Pledge”, which it intends to table at the end of the month. Jake Maison reports.
‘Workers will bear the brunt of Trump’s Venezuela policy’
To best understand the complex relationship between the Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro governments, Federico Fuentes spoke to Salvador De León, a member of the National Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Coalition (CAIT) based in the city of Maracaibo, a major oil...
Remembering Hiroshima with lantern parades and kamishibai stories
As we witness the genocide in Gaza, and a world descending deeper into fascism and war, creative protest and coalition-building helps build a strong and sustainable peace movement, writes Alexander Brown.
Conflicting futures for Syria’s Kurds and other minorities?
Two days after meeting with Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, the Syrian government announced it was pulling out of a planned meeting with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Sarah Glynn reports.
We need real emission cuts not more dodgy climate targets
Labor will set a new 2035 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to take to the United Nations climate summit in November. Peter Boyle argues that as the world’s third-largest fossil fuel exporter it needs to be much higher than what is being touted.