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The true costs of Operation Epic Failure

The true costs of Operation Epic Failure

The full extent of the human and environmental costs of the latest illegal imperial war launched by the United States and the racist settler-colonial...

18.03.2026 10

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Peter Boyle

Green Left Radio: Stop Bombing Iran

Iranian community member Abbas Saeidavi joined Green Left Radio this week on 3CR to discuss a left-wing Iranian response to the US-Israel led war...

18.03.2026 7

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Abbas saeidavi

Green Left Radio: Grassroots campaign to save 44 public housing towers

Jackson Payne from Stop the Demo joined Green Left Radio speak about the campaign to oppose the destruction of 44 public housing towers by the state...

18.03.2026 4

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Jackson payne

We need to challenge the patriarchal warmongers

We need to challenge the patriarchal warmongers

Jepke Goudsmit argues that warfare is one of the leading polluters of the planet and rampant misogyny is built into it, which is why we need to...

17.03.2026 3

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Jepke Goudsmit

We need to challenge the patriarchal war mongers

We need to challenge the patriarchal war mongers

Jepke Goudsmit argues that warfare is a foremost polluter of the planet and rampant misogyny is built into it, which is why we need to challenge the...

16.03.2026 10

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Jepke Goudsmit

Mardi Gras marchers assaulted by police demand justice

Mardi Gras marchers assaulted by police demand justice

Wendy Bacon interviewed five people and watched videos that show NSW Police attacking and forcing people out of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras...

14.03.2026 10

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Wendy Bacon

The ‘logic’ of AUKUS — a definition of insanity

The ‘logic’ of AUKUS — a definition of insanity

Asked to sum up Australia’s geopolitical situation, Renfrey Clarke argues we’re in bed with an axe murderer, with the complicity of Australia’s...

14.03.2026 10

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Renfrey Clarke

We must defend our precious native forests

We must defend our precious native forests

Native forests are crucial for climate change mitigation and water security, but pro-business government policies are allowing their destruction at an...

13.03.2026 10

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Ben Radford

Capital Gains Tax reform, spending cuts and a fairer plan

Capital Gains Tax reform, spending cuts and a fairer plan

Lots of kites are being flown about how to make housing affordable in the lead-up to the May budget. Graham Matthews argues that Labor could raise tax...

12.03.2026 10

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Graham Matthews

Labor has dragged Australia into the US-Israel war on Iran. We must stop them

Labor has dragged Australia into the US-Israel war on Iran. We must stop them

An Australian government that was serious about global peace — as opposed to maintaining US-Israeli dominance in the Middle East region — would...

11.03.2026 5

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Federico Fuentes

While Vic Labor sticks to neoliberalism, One Nation vote rises

After winning two stomping majorities in a row, Victorian Labor’s winning streak may be in danger as opinion polls show both major parties are on...

10.03.2026 3

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Jack stickney

Tackling misogyny requires more ‘difficult’ women

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s patronising descriptor of Grace Tame as “difficult” is the latest high-profile example of just how embedded...

09.03.2026 20

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Pip Hinman

Lawmakers continue to enact hate crime laws, suppressing free speech

Anne Twomey, a constitutional lawyer at the University of Sydney, is concerned that new state and federal laws, allegedly to combat hate, are...

09.03.2026 20

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Paul Gregoire

Law makers continue to enact hate crime laws, suppressing free speech

Anne Twomey, a constitutional lawyer at the University of Sydney, is concerned that new state and federal laws, allegedly to combat hate, are...

09.03.2026 20

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Paul Gregoire

Labor’s politics of consensus stifles dissent, compassion

Stuart Rees arguess that the present debilitating consensus in the federal parliament is that loyalty to Israel and the United States is imperative,...

06.03.2026 20

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Stuart Rees

Why Coles and Woolies should be in public hands

With millions already struggling in a cost-of-living crisis, supermarket giants Coles is finally being investigated for price gouging. Isaac Nellist...

04.03.2026 30

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Isaac Nellist

Antisemitism royal Commission fails at first hurdle

Virginia Bell has shut the door on a broader examination of racism, Janet Parker argues, confirming that antisemitism will be exceptionalised in this...

02.03.2026 10

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Janet Parker

Labor must stop fanning racism and helping One Nation

Labor’s handling of the so-called “ISIS brides” issue is the latest example of its willingness to fan the flames of racism and division, argues...

02.03.2026 10

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Peter Boyle

Why ‘prices are down’ Coles and Woolies should be in public hands

With millions already struggling in a cost-of-living crisis, supermarket giants Coles is finally being investigated. Isaac Nellist argues we should...

02.03.2026 20

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Isaac Nellist

Stop the war on Iran

Socialist Alliance condemns the attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States and calls on the Australian Labor government to immediately reverse...

01.03.2026 10

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Socialist Alliance

Adjectives and allegiance: What Albanese’s word choices reveal

Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that Anthony Albanese’s Freudian slip while playing a word association game, sums him up: White, misogynist and a...

27.02.2026 10

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Natalia Figueroa Barroso

Why Extinction Rebellion SA targets Santos

Extinction Rebellion is focused on stopping Santos' sportswashing and they told Markela Panegyres that they disruptive actions are educating people,...

27.02.2026 20

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Markela Panegyres

Vale Lionel Fogarty: Trailblazing warrior poet (1958-2026)

Uncle Lionel Fogarty worked tirelessly on political campaigns for Aboriginal peoples’ rights, while earnestly and consistently crafting provocative,...

26.02.2026 10

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Jim Mcilroy

Commissioner Bell begins antisemitism royal commission by embracing IHRA definition, downplaying controversy

Before hearing any evidence, Commissioner Virginia Bell has adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism, claiming it is not controversial. Abraham...

25.02.2026 10

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Abraham Edwards

Geoffrey Watson’s CFMEU report to Qld inquiry an attack on all unions

Sue Bull argues that while the allegations sound bad, there is no hard evidence of the CFMEU’s criminality in Geoffrey Watson’s report to the...

25.02.2026 10

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Sue Bull

Watson’s CFMEU report to Qld inquiry an attack on all unions

Sue Bull argues that while the allegations sound bad, there is no hard evidence of the CFMEU’s criminality in Geoffrey Watson’s report to the...

25.02.2026 10

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Sue Bull

Punishing language: Queensland’s antisemitism bill

The Queensland Liberal National government has decided to deal with an alleged antisemitic problem by introducing new laws outlawing certain phrases...

24.02.2026 10

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Binoy Kampmark

When politicians fail, police go rogue, justice fails to protect

Israel’s President Herzog has departed leaving less “social cohesion”, while politicians, justices and NSW Police have many questions to answer,...

23.02.2026 10

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Wendy Bacon

‘Arrest Herzog’: The people’s cry against impunity

When the masses chanted “Arrest Herzog”, they were not calling for vengeance but accountability, writes Shamikh Badra.

23.02.2026 20

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Shamikh Badra

NSW slides back to dark days of Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Suzette Meade writes that former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen justified his authoritarianism, dressed up as “law and order”, to claim...

23.02.2026 30

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Suzette Meade

35 years of Green Left — people-powered media standing up to the 1%

In Australia’s mostly corporate-owned media landscape, Green Left has been speaking truth to power for 35 years. Ben Radford explains GL’s...

23.02.2026 50

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Ben Radford

PM Albanese deflecting blame from Closing the Gap failure

Multiple government agreements have been made to “close the gap” but, as Peter Boyle writes, the 2025 Closing the Gap report reveals that most...

23.02.2026 20

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Peter Boyle

Angus Taylor vies with One Nation to scapegoat migrants for housing crisis

While opinion polls show Pauline Hanson’s One Nation ahead of the Coalition, how substantial or transient this is remains a political question,...

23.02.2026 80

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Alex Bainbridge

Voluntary assisted dying rights vs church power

Public money must come with public obligations, argues Suzanne James. If publicly funded institutions are to serve a diverse population, they must...

23.02.2026 100

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Suzanne James

Questions about Mardi Gras and policing that need answers

Chris Minns apologised to the 78ers in 2016 about police violence. Barbara Karpinski writes that police are still traumatising youth at an...

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Barbara Karpinski

Eighteen years since the apology, First Nations children are still being removed

Despite governmental apologies and promises to do better, the forced removal of First Nations’ children has not slowed down, Cas Smith reports.

23.02.2026 10

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Cas Smith

NSW Greens human rights bill includes a right to housing

If Greens MP Jenny Leong’s human rights bill is supported in NSW, tenants in New South Wales may soon be protected from evictions. Paul Gregoire...

23.02.2026 20

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Paul Gregoire

Minns orders police violence against Palestine movement

12.02.2026 7

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Judith Treanor

Herzog policing: Cowardice dressed up as authority

12.02.2026 10

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Stuart Rees

Albanese’s Herzog invitation has backfired

11.02.2026 5

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Pip Hinman

Chris Minns’ police state attacks Muslims in prayer, peaceful protesters

10.02.2026 8

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Pip Hinman

Herzog visit designed to divide — we won’t stop protesting genocide

10.02.2026 10

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Janet Parker

RBA rate rise risks deepening housing crisis

10.02.2026 6

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Suzanne James

Gov’t spends on fuelling housing crisis rather than fixing it

10.02.2026 10

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Ben Radford

Gov’t claims hate speech laws won’t criminalise criticism of Israel

09.02.2026 10

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Paul Gregoire

Federal hate speech law creates classes of citizenships

06.02.2026 9

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Dal Ouba

Precarious invitations: Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia

05.02.2026 10

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Binoy Kampmark

Oxfam report highlights how billionaires rig politics

04.02.2026 10

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Jacob Andrewartha

Lidia Thorpe: ‘Silence on Boorloo bombing is deafening’

04.02.2026 9

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Cas Smith

Socialist Alliance: Hands off Cuba! End the US blockade!

04.02.2026 10

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Socialist Alliance