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Socialist candidate: 'The genocide in Gaza did not begin on October 7, 2023'

Sarah Hathway gave the following speech to the Free Palestine Geelong rally on April 26. She is the Socialist Alliance candidate for Corio. • •...

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Sarah Hathway

Growth in crossbench MPs creates potential for democratic electoral reform

Some pre-election polls are showing a historic tally of seats for Labor. Yet, at the same time, less people are voting for the major parties. How...

01.05.2025 10

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Zane Alcorn

Better workplace conditions help us all

While there is a justifiable focus on wages flat-lining given the rising cost of living and rents, unions must follow the example of New South...

01.05.2025 1

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Mary Merkenich

Palestine shows up Australia’s disgraceful ‘representative democracy’

There has been widespread condemnation of the disgraceful federal election campaign conducted by the Labor-Coalition duopoly. Even sections of the...

30.04.2025 8

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Peter Henning

Dirty salmon and the corporate takeover of Tasmania’s waters

From the Lake Pedder and Franklin River campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s, to the logging and destruction of old growth forests for woodchips,...

30.04.2025 5

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Philippa Skinner

Vale Gaetano Greco — a life of action and principle

When we first moved to Victoria, Gaetano Greco was chair of the Darebin Ethnic Communities Council (DECC). I met him in the mid-2000s, introduced...

30.04.2025 2

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Lionel Bopage

Australia’s international challenges: Lessons from the past

Mainstream coverage of the major parties campaign reveals a narrow-minded, forgetful and somewhat inward-looking stand. While this federal election...

30.04.2025 2

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Mark Gillespie

NSW Senate candidate: 'Vote for Palestine, but don't stop there: Organise!'

Andrew Chuter gave this speech to an open forum on the steps of Sydney Town Hall on April 24, organised by City of Sydney for Palestine. He is...

29.04.2025 10

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Andrew Chuter

Labor rejects Thorpe-Payman genocide bills, but they are unlikely to go away

Recent reports on Australian-made weapons parts and locally produced weapons systems ending up with the Israeli Defense Force during the Gaza...

29.04.2025 4

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Paul Gregoire

Green Left Show #55: Purple Pingers on housing solutions

Victorian Socialists senate candidate Jordan van dem Lamb, also known as Purple Pingers, speaks to Green Left about: how he got involved in housing...

29.04.2025 3

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Jordan Van Den Lamb

Racism, imperialism and the ANZAC myth

At the ANZAC Day dawn service in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra on April 25, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese repeated the core of the ANZAC myth; the...

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Peter Boyle