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Will WA Labor eliminate carbon emission reduction targets?

Will WA Labor eliminate carbon emission reduction targets?

Recent reports suggest that the Western Australian Labor government is planning on pushing ahead with its net-zero plan but without emission...

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Maz Misiewicz

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

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 10

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Jim Mcilroy

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

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

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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 20

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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.

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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...

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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.

16.04.2026 20

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Muayad ali

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.

15.04.2026 20

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Isaac Nellist

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...

14.04.2026 10

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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...

13.04.2026 20

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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.

13.04.2026 10

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Ali keshtkar

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...

13.04.2026 20

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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...

13.04.2026 9

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Sarah Williams

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...

10.04.2026 20

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Peter Boyle

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...

10.04.2026 20

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Isaac Nellist

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 20

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Pip Hinman

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...

10.04.2026 10

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Guy gillor

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...

08.04.2026 10

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Jews For Palestine Wa

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...

07.04.2026 20

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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...

03.04.2026 30

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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...

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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...

02.04.2026 30

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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 20

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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 20

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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