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Podcast: Bhaskar Sunkara: Politics under Trump and the prospects for Socialism

Jacob Andrewartha speaks to Bhaskar Sunkara about the political situation in the United States in response to the Trump administration and the...

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Jacob Andrewartha

Waterloo residents slam NSW Labor over ‘not functional communities’ allegations

Karyn Brown, a resident at the Waterloo Estate, skewered Labor’s proposition that it was delivering “positive outcomes” for tenants. Pip Hinman...

tuesday 10

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Pip Hinman

Waterloo residents slam NSW Labor over ‘non-functioning community’ allegations

Karyn Brown, a resident at the Waterloo Estate, skewered Labor’s proposition that it was delivering “positive outcomes” for tenants. Pip Hinman...

01.06.2026 10

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Pip Hinman

Waterloo residents slams NSW Labor over ‘non-functioning community’ allegations

Karyn Brown, a resident at the Waterloo Estate, skewered Labor’s proposition that it was delivering “positive outcomes” for tenants. Pip Hinman...

01.06.2026 5

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Pip Hinman

NSW Labor under pressure over its anti-protest laws

NSW Labor under pressure over its anti-protest laws

NSW Premier Chris Minns continues to defend his NSW Labor government’s anti-protest laws, despite the NSW Court of Appeal striking them down as...

28.05.2026 8

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Pip Hinman

Socialist candidate: No to nuclear submarine base in Muloobinba

Socialist candidate: No to nuclear submarine base in Muloobinba

A secret government report said that while Port Kembla is the assessment’s preferred site for an East Coast nuclear submarine base, Muloobinba...

27.05.2026 8

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Steve O&039Brien

Federal budget tweaks won’t deliver housing justice

Federal budget tweaks won’t deliver housing justice

The federal Labor government is boasting its small housing tax changes are the most comprehensive housing plan in generations. Rachel Evans argues...

27.05.2026 10

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Rachel Evans

Labor’s climate budget fail won’t stop renewable energy advances

Labor’s climate budget fail won’t stop renewable energy advances

While Labor conspicuously omitted mention of the climate emergency in its budget, renewable energy projects are advancing. Alex Bainbridge reports.

26.05.2026 10

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Alex Bainbridge

Maralinga survivor Aunty Sue Haseldine-Coleman: End weapons testing on Googatha Country

Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a senior Googatha elder and anti-nuclear activist, who is leading a campaign against rocket and weapons testing on sacred...

20.05.2026 10

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Aunty sue coleman-haseldine

Maralinga survivor Aunty Sue Haseldine-Coleman says weapons testing on Googatha Country must end

Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a senior Googatha elder and anti-nuclear activist, who is leading a campaign against rocket and weapons testing on sacred...

19.05.2026 10

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Aunty sue coleman-haseldine

One Nation’s rise can be countered

The Pauline Hanson’s One Nation’s victory in the Farrer by-election is an advance for racist, anti-immigrant and right-wing politics. Jacob...

16.05.2026 20

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Jacob Andrewartha

Maritime union calls out DP World’s AI union-busting push

Warren Smith from the Maritime Union of Australia said Dubai Port World’s push to automate its container terminal operations at four terminals...

06.05.2026 20

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Jim Mcilroy

Clint Uink: ‘We need to challenge the system that harms us’

Noongar man and unionist Clint Uink told the May Day rally on Whadjuk Noongar Country that truth telling and political education can challenge and...

06.05.2026 10

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Clint uink

Jews are less safe if Zionism and Jewishness are conflated

In her submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, Janet Parker writes that while antisemitism does exist, the only...

04.05.2026 10

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Janet Parker

Global Sumud Flotilla: Labor must condemn Israel’s aggression

Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud flotilla and abduction of civilians, including Australians, demands an explanation, argues Shamikh Badra.

03.05.2026 20

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Shamikh Badra

NSW Aboriginal Land Council lodges complaint against Minns gov’t

The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council has lodged a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission over the NSW Labor government’s...

01.05.2026 20

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Paul Gregoire

‘Just absurd’: Arrestee on Queensland’s laws banning Palestine freedom slogans

Twenty Palestine justice activists were arrested by Queensland Police at a Not Our Law rally in Magan-djin/Brisbane. Paul Gregoire talks to Alex...

01.05.2026 30

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Paul Gregoire

Stephen Heydt: Why I’m protesting Qld’s new racist law

I was one of 22 people arrested in Magan-djin/Brisbane. Whether it was necessary for so many police to arrest one 73-year-old Jew, I’ll let you...

29.04.2026 10

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Stephen Heydt

Labor’s priorities: War, war, war

Defence minister Richard Marles’ announcement that he plans to increase military spending by $53 billion show up Labor’s priorities: Boosting...

28.04.2026 10

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Isaac Nellist

Calls for a tax on gas exports long overdue

The call for a tax on gas corporations’ exports is growing louder by the day. Despite 80% of gas production being sent offshore, the government...

27.04.2026 20

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Cas Smith

Vale Caroline Graham: A comrade who created hope on the shores of Gaza

Shamikh Badra pays tribute to Caroline Graham, an activist who turned solidarity with Gaza into a living act of hope and resistance.

25.04.2026 30

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Shamikh Badra

The NDIS is under attack and we need to fight back

The NDIS was built by decades of activist struggle. It will not be dismantled without a fight, argues Gabrielle McCutcheon.

25.04.2026 30

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Gabrielle mccutcheon

Socialist Alliance: Labor must be forced to back down from NDIS cuts

The Anthony Albanese government’s decision to savage the National Disability Insurance Scheme ranks high in the scale of betrayals by neoliberal...

24.04.2026 30

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Graham Matthews

NSW Labor’s business-friendly planning changes undermine democracy

Chris Minns told a business summit last year that Labor's planning changes were designed for them which, as Ben Radford explains, means less public...

24.04.2026 20

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Ben Radford

NSW nurse says pay rise undervalues the profession

Many nurses and midwives in NSW are unhappy with the Industrial Relations Commission's pay ruling, saying it does not address an undervalued...

24.04.2026 10

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Pip Hinman

Sex workers need protections, inclusion under anti-discrimination law

The premise that sex work is inherently and inevitably high risk leads to a lack of support for legal reform. Barbarella Karpinski argues that danger...

23.04.2026 20

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Barbarella karpinski

Vale ANZAC?

The symbolism of the ANZAC legend from the very start has always obfuscated and minimised the truth of the 20th century wars, writes James Wyner.

22.04.2026 20

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James Wyner

Angus Taylor’s ‘Australian values’ immigration policy is a racist dog whistle

Jacob Andrewartha argues that Angus Taylor’s “values-based” migration scheme is the latest example of the ruling class’ bid to ramp up racism...

22.04.2026 30

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Jacob Andrewartha

Remembering Marouf, the beekeeper

Hannah Jamal writes that every Palestinian and Lebanese person in the diaspora knows the feeling of seeing yourself and your family mirrored in every...

22.04.2026 20

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Hannah jamal

Remembering Marouf, the bee-keeper

My Dad was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to Australia with his family in 1985. He is the definition of a master-of-all-trades and beekeeping was...

20.04.2026 10

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Hannah jamal

Labor’s gambling reforms more about optics than impact

Australia loses $31 billion each year to gambling and children continue to be stalked in ever-inventive ways by sports betting vultures. But, as...

17.04.2026 20

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Suzanne James

Forum highlights Palestinian prisoners’ resilience and ingenuity

A forum hosted by the Palestinian Community of Western Australia and All for Gaza/All for Palestine heard of the persecution experienced by...

17.04.2026 10

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Cas Smith

Angus Taylor targets Palestinians in new ‘immigration’ policy

Liberal opposition leader Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, built around what he calls “Australian values”, is nothing of the sort. Shamikh...

16.04.2026 30

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Shamikh Badra