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Green Left Radio: Why teachers rejected Labor's pay offer

School teacher Izzy joined Green Left Radio on June 26 to discuss Labor's recent enterprise agreement offer to school teachers and education support...

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Izzy

Green Left Radio: Sue Bolton on fighting racism and One Nation

Socialist Alliance candidate, Sue Bolton, joined Green Left Radio to discuss the rising support for One Nation and how we can fight back.

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Sue Bolton

South Australian government goes ‘all in’ on AI data centres

South Australian government goes ‘all in’ on AI data centres

South Australian Labor is preparing for a huge expansion of the state’s data centre industry arguing the state has renewable energy in abundance....

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Renfrey Clarke

Australia needs a big build of public housing

Australia needs a big build of public housing

The rise of One Nation comes off the back of four decades of neoliberalism delivering declining wages, less union strength and a worsening housing...

29.06.2026 10

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Zane Alcorn

NDIS bill inquiry extended, but more needed to stop life-threatening cuts

NDIS bill inquiry extended, but more needed to stop life-threatening cuts

The three-day inquiry in June into Labor’s devastating National Disability Insurance Scheme bill has been extended, after disability advocacy and...

29.06.2026 10

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Graham Matthews

Farewell Anne Leggett, staunch unionist and feminist

Farewell Anne Leggett, staunch unionist and feminist

Anne Leggett’s life was commemorated at a private ceremony for friends, family and comrades at her home in Merewether. Below is an abridged obituary...

26.06.2026 7

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Linda Alcorn

Gina Rinehart’s military ravings on Israel and Elon Musk

Gina Rinehart’s military ravings on Israel and Elon Musk

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart wants to advance the military industrial complex in Townsville, at least, and invite the Israeli war...

25.06.2026 10

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Binoy Kampark

Organising for rights is our best defence against Hansonism

Organising for rights is our best defence against Hansonism

As right-wing editors sniff around for the opportunity to decisively shift politics to the right — to benefit the billionaires — working...

23.06.2026 8

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Sam Wainwright

New aged care law gives providers, not the elderly, choice and control

The new aged care law was promoted as the sector’s most significant reform in a generation. But, as Suzanne James writes, relying on a market-based...

22.06.2026 10

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Suzanne James

Billionaire rule goes toxic

Billionaire rule has been grossly unjust and patently unsustainable for a long time, but now it is revealing a new level of political toxicity, argues...

22.06.2026 10

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Peter Boyle

NSW’s proposed medicinal cannabis drug driving defence questioned

A new proposed drug driving regime in NSW is being criticised for its potential to target medicinal cannabis patients, with its proposal to set up a...

17.06.2026 10

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Paul Gregoire

Back to the drawing board on Waterloo Estate redevelopment

The current plan for Waterloo South is to demolish all public housing and build 3300 new homes. Alistair Sisson argues that Labor should revisit its...

16.06.2026 10

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Alistair Sisson

Community shuts Bisalloy Steel down over its continuing ties to Israel

Wollongong Friends of Palestine set up a 300-strong community picket at Bisalloy Steel and two shifts have been successfully blocked. Kerry Smith...

15.06.2026 10

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Kerry Smith

Community shuts Bisalloy Steel down over continuing its ties to Israel

Wollongong Friends of Palestine set up a 300-strong community picket at Bisalloy Steel and two shifts have been successfully blocked. Kerry Smith...

15.06.2026 20

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Kerry Smith

AUKUS under scrutiny from a public inquiry

Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, Australia has been the only one to be indifferent to the need for an inquiry into its merits, argues Binoy...

15.06.2026 20

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Binoy Kampmark

Social cohesion cannot be built by exceptionalising antisemitism

Jepke Goudsmit writes that Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion should have been an investigation into the root causes and persistence...

13.06.2026 20

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Jepke Goudsmit

Social cohesion cannot be built by exceptionalising antisemitism

Jepke Goudsmit writes that Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion should have been an investigation into the root causes and persistence...

12.06.2026 20

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Jepke Goudsmit

Why some working-class people are considering One Nation

With polls showing a surge towards the Pauline Hanson One Nation party, Max Chandler-Mather discusses the social context behind the declining support...

11.06.2026 9

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Max Chandler-Mather

The big lie at the heart of One Nation’s surge

One Nation’s right-wing populism is built around a big lie, writes Peter Boyle, because it defends the very capitalist system that has created the...

10.06.2026 20

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Peter Boyle

Family broken as no charges brought against police for Kumanjayi White’s death

Northern Territory police announced that the cause of Kumanjayi White’s death last year was “equivocal”. The family say justice is not being...

10.06.2026 10

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Paul Gregoire

Anny Mokotow: ‘Sumud is what they have in Palestine and what we need here’

Anny Mokotow spoke publicly for the first time at the Palestine rally on Gadigal Country about the Global Sumud Flotilla and how those supporting...

09.06.2026 20

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Jepke Goudsmit

Hanson’s mining wealth ‘solution’ backs disastrous status quo

Redistributing the wealth and making mining sustainable requires transitioning to a democratic and publicly-run industry. Sam Wainwright argues this...

09.06.2026 10

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Sam Wainwright

Family broken as no charges brought against police for Kumanjayi White’s death

Northern Terriroty police announced that cause of Kumanjayi White’s death last year is “equivocal”. The family say justice is not being done and...

06.06.2026 30

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Paul Gregoire

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...

04.06.2026 20

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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...

02.06.2026 20

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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 20

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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 10

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Pip Hinman

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 10

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Pip Hinman

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 10

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Steve O&039Brien

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 20

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Rachel Evans

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 20

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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 30

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Jacob Andrewartha