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Angus Taylor targets Palestinians in new ‘immigration’ policy

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...

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Shamikh Badra

Green Left Radio: Free Marwan Barghouti

Muayad Ali joined Green Left Radio to discuss the campaign to free Marwan Barghouti.

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Muayad ali

Blame investors, not immigrants, for housing crisis

Blame investors, not immigrants, for housing crisis

It is investors, not migrants, that are driving the housing affordability crisis in their never-ending pursuit of profits, reports Isaac Nellist.

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Isaac Nellist

Rockhampton army veteran sails for Gaza with aid flotilla

Rockhampton army veteran sails for Gaza with aid flotilla

Machinist Rob Volker, who has joined the Global Sumud Flotilla to sail to Gaza, told Ivana Daskalovic that he feels privileged to be able to join it...

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Ivana daskalovic

Green Left Radio: Sarah Williams on national rallies against violence

Sarah Williams from What Were you Wearing Australia joined Green Left Radio to discuss the upcoming nationwide rallies against domestic and family...

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Sarah Williams

Green Left Radio: Ali Keshtkar on the illegal war on Iran

Ali Keshtkar joined Green Left Radio to discuss the impacts of the illegal United States-Israel war on Iran.

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Ali keshtkar

Ten steps Labor could take to address the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine

Ten steps Labor could take to address the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine

Most people were hoping for big petrol tax cuts or cost-of-living adjustments from the PM’s rare address to the nation. He claims to support a...

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Sue Bolton

Green Left Radio: National rally against violence

Sarah Williams from What Were you Wearing Australia joined Green Left Radio to discuss the upcoming nationwide rallies against domestic and family...

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Sarah Williams

The minimum wage should be lifted by at least 10%

The minimum wage should be lifted by at least 10%

Corporate CEOs are paid, on average, 55 times what they pay their workers, yet give themselves double-digit pay rises. Peter Boyle argues the ACTU...

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Peter Boyle

Young people need more than the scrapping of junior rates

Young people need more than the scrapping of junior rates

The Fair Work Commission’s landmark decision to abolish some junior rates is a positive step but, Isaac Nellist argues, the deck is still stacked...

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Isaac Nellist

Reject the racist war parties

Reject the racist war parties

Pip Hinman argues that Labor, One Nation, the Liberals and Nationals are all war parties, having supported the United States and Israeli wars of...

10.04.2026 10

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Pip Hinman

Ben Roberts-Smith and the Afghanistan invasion war crime

Ben Roberts-Smith and the Afghanistan invasion war crime

Ben Roberts-Smith must be prosecuted for war crimes, but as Guy Gillor argues, let us not pretend as if the main crimes perpetrated in the Afghanistan...

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Guy gillor

Jewish groups call on PM to cut ties with Israel over Palestinian death penalty law

Jewish groups call on PM to cut ties with Israel over Palestinian death penalty law

Seven Jewish groups sent the following letter to the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong demanding that Australia cut ties...

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Jews For Palestine Wa

The US-Israel Iran war, already unpopular, must be stopped

The US-Israel Iran war, already unpopular, must be stopped

After just four weeks of the illegal war on Iran and Lebanon, working people are struggling to afford the higher petrol/diesel and other essential...

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Mary Merkenich

Iran war exposes Australia’s misplaced priorities

Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a fictitious threat has left us without adequate fuel, food...

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Bevan Ramsden

USyd SRC queer officer: ‘Justice for victims of police violence needed now’

Wendy Thompson argues that LGBTIQ people need appropriate, accessible and competent services instead of police deployed for protests, mental health...

02.04.2026 10

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Wendy thompson

Iran war exposes Australia’s misplaced priorities

Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a fictitious threat has left us without adequate fuel, food...

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Bevan Ramsden

Tasmanian AEU president: Teachers have ‘no other option’ but to strike

Solomon Doyle spoke to David Genford, president of the Australian Education Union, Tasmania, about the difficulties teachers and other public sector...

02.04.2026 10

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Solomon Doyle

Public transport campaigner says Labor’s fuel excise cut could make things worse

Andrew Chuter, a public and active transport campaigner, has warned that Labor’s decision to temporarily halve the fuel excise may worsen the impact...

02.04.2026 10

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Peter Boyle

Green Left Radio: Resisting transphobic attacks under Trump

Neuroscientist Simone Titone joins Green Left Radio to discuss the growing transphobic attacks under Trump.

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Simone titone

Lock the Gate: Labor’s new Qld gas threatens net zero promise

The Lock the Gate Alliance has hit out at federal environment minister Murray Watt’s approval of almost 1700 new coal seam gas wells in Queensland...

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Alex Bainbridge

SA Labor returned as One Nation vote rises

Disenfranchised, working-class voters looking to lodge a protest vote against the major parties helps explain the high vote for Pauline Hanson’s One...

27.03.2026 10

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Markela Panegyres

The lies that fuel war

The Albanese government’s support for the United States–Israel war on Iran rests on claims about nuclear threat, humanitarian intent and...

26.03.2026 20

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David Shoebridge

Iran war shows we urgently need transition to renewables

The United States and Israel’s illegal war on Iran and Lebanon is not only causing the widespread death and displacement of innocent people, Ben...

26.03.2026 10

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Ben Radford

ASIO’s compulsory questioning powers to be made permanent

Labor is pushing to make ASIO’s compulsory questioning powers permanent, even though ASIO told the government in 2024 that aspects of the security...

26.03.2026 20

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Paul Gregoire

How to help Cuba in its ‘hour of need’

“Cuba is in desperate need of our solidarity and it’s time for us to return it to Cuba, who has been offering solidarity with countries all around...

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Peter Boyle

Support the AEU strike and demand funding for public education

Mary Merkenich, a retired teacher, argues school staff understand their students and their needs best, and called on Labor to prioritise public...

23.03.2026 10

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Mary Merkenich

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 20

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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 20

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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...

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Jackson payne

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 10

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Jepke Goudsmit

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...

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Jepke Goudsmit

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...

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Wendy Bacon

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...

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Renfrey Clarke

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 20

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Ben Radford

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 30

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Graham Matthews

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 10

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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 10

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 30

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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...

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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 20

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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 20

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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 40

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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 20

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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 20

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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,...

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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,...

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Jim Mcilroy