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Green Left Radio: Digital Rights Watch on Albanese and AI

Tom Sulston from Digital Rights Watch joined Green Left Radio to discuss the governments policy on Artificial Intelligence.

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Tom Sulston

Green Left Radio: Rosebank Engineering’s complicity in genocide

Jye Batam joined Green Left Radio to discuss local campaigns to stop weapons being supplied to Israel.

24.07.2026 2

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Jye Batam

Green Left Radio: Rosebank Engineering - complicit in genocide

Jye Batam joined Green Left Radio to discuss local campaigns to stop arming Israel

24.07.2026 1

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Jye Batam

Reject One Nation’s call to return to White Australia Policy

Reject One Nation’s call to return to White Australia Policy

Pauline Hanson’s podcast interview with far-right British figure Tommy Robinson has cleared up any ambiguity about the meaning of One Nation’s...

24.07.2026 10

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Peter Boyle

Protests demand Pine Gap be closed

Protests demand Pine Gap be closed

Pine Gap, known as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, is a prickly reminder that Australia remains annexed to the security interests of the United...

22.07.2026 20

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Binoy Kampmark

Qld gov’t, bosses plan to hammer building workers

Qld gov’t, bosses plan to hammer building workers

Queensland’s Liberal National Party government is proposing to cut construction workers’ pay and conditions and restrict their right to organise...

21.07.2026 10

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Jonathon Strauss

Anti-CFMEU campaign wedges Vic Labor in election year

Anti-CFMEU campaign wedges Vic Labor in election year

With Jacinta Allen’s Labor government under pressure, the bosses and their media outlets are amping up their anti-Construction, Forestry and...

21.07.2026 20

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Sue Bull

The royal commission must stop erasing Palestinians’ experiences, voices

The royal commission must stop erasing Palestinians’ experiences, voices

Shamikh Badra argues that when Palestinians are discussed as objects of inquiry, rather than as people with history, political agency and lived...

21.07.2026 10

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Shamikh Badra

Reject One Nation’s call to return to White Australia

Reject One Nation’s call to return to White Australia

Pauline Hanson’s podcast interview with far-right British figure Tommy Robinson has cleared up any ambiguity about the meaning her One Nations...

20.07.2026 10

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Peter Boyle

Green Left Radio: Hindus for human rights on protesting Modi

Deepak Joshi joined Green Left Radio to talk about protests against Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.

18.07.2026 20

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Deepak Joshi

Biased royal commission into antisemitism cannot deliver change

Biased royal commission into antisemitism cannot deliver change

As Israel continues to inflict genocide on Palestinians, in Gaza and the West Bank, Janet Parker argues that it, not the anti-genocide movement, is...

18.07.2026 10

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Janet Parker

Islamophobia is the greater racist problem today

Islamophobia is the greater racist problem today

Islamophobia is a bigger problem than antisemitism in Australia today, but government agencies and the mainstream media would have you think the...

17.07.2026 20

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Pip Hinman

Rank-and-file ticket to contest NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association election

A rank-and-file ticket, focused on accountability and workplace health and safety, will challenge the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association...

16.07.2026 10

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Pip Hinman

Rank-and-file ticket prepares to contest NSW Nurses and Midwives Association election

A rank-and-file ticket, focused on accountability and workplace health and safety, will challenge the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association incumbents...

15.07.2026 10

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Pip Hinman

Telstra outage shows communications network should be publicly owned

Telstra’s network outage cut millions of people off from communication. Dom Williams argues that the solution is to take this essential...

15.07.2026 7

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Dom Williams

Nuclear energy, Modi and his ‘down under’ toadies

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was fated by the Prime Minister, who wants to grow Australia's export of uranium, despite India not being a party...

14.07.2026 20

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Binoy Kampmark

Islamophobia is the major racist problem today

Islamophobia is a bigger problem than antisemitism in Australia today, but government agencies and the mainstream media would have you think the...

14.07.2026 20

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Pip Hinman

The threat to abortion in Australia and what’s at stake?

Attempts by conservative forces to whittle back abortion rights in NSW, South Australia and Queensland have all been defeated for now. Kamala Emanuel...

13.07.2026 9

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Kamala Emanuel

Australia’s selective outrage about missile tests in the Pacific

Labor foreign minister Penny Wong is outraged that China is testing its intercontinental ballistic missile, saying it is is “destabilising” for...

10.07.2026 20

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Pip Hinman

New research finds Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism is failing

As record-breaking heatwaves scorch the northern hemisphere and another El Niño summer is predicted here, new research from The Australia Institute...

09.07.2026 20

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Alex Bainbridge

Australian media’s alt-right politics

Channel Nine’s former star Karl Stefanovic is the latest Australian media personality to reveal their sympathies for the far right, Isaac Nellist...

08.07.2026 20

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Isaac Nellist

AUKUS under scrutiny at its first ever public inquiry

The AUKUS Public Inquiry is pursuing a number of questions, including the level of toxic nuclear waste Australia will be required to store, how many...

08.07.2026 10

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Binoy Kampark

Scrap AUKUS, end complicity in genocide

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claims he wants Labor’s national conference to “showcase” the party as inclusive, open and democratic. But he is...

08.07.2026 20

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Markela Panegyres

Stefanovic’s alt-right politics behind career change

9's former star Karl Stefanovic is the latest Australian media personality to reveal their sympathies for the far right, Isaac Nellist reports.

06.07.2026 30

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Isaac Nellist

50 years on: Remembering the 1976 Medibank general strike

Jim McIlroy remembers the Australian Council of Trade Union’s national general strike to defend Medibank — Australia’s first universal,...

05.07.2026 30

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Jim McIlroy

Green Left Radio: Stop Israel's aggression in Lebanon

Sarah Baarini joined Green Left Radio on July 3 to discus the political situation in Lebanon

05.07.2026 20

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Sarah Baarini

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...

03.07.2026 20

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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.

02.07.2026 30

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Sue Bolton

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....

01.07.2026 30

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Renfrey Clarke

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 30

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Zane Alcorn

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 20

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Graham Matthews

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 20

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Linda Alcorn

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 20

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Binoy Kampark

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 20

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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 30

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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 20

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 20

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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 30

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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 30

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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 40

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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 20

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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 40

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Paul Gregoire