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Major parties aim to increase their election funding advantages

It is not surprising that after decades of Coalition and Labor neoliberal governments robbing the poor to give to the rich that voters have been...

02.12.2024 10

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Peter Boyle

Major parties to increase their election funding advantages

It is not surprising that after decades of Coalition and Labor neoliberal governments robbing the poor to give to the rich that voters have been...

27.11.2024 10

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Why Trump’s election casts an ominous shadow

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 United States presidential election has sent a wave of depression around the world, especially because it comes...

19.11.2024 20

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Good reasons to distrust our political ‘leaders’

Joe Aston’s accusation, in his  The Chairman's Lounge , that Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was chummy with disgraced former Qantas CEO Alan...

05.11.2024 10

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The PM’s $4.3m cliff top home and the housing crisis

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s purchase of a $4.3 million cliff top house in Copacabana, on the New South Wales Central Coast, has rightly...

23.10.2024 20

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Socialist Alliance condemns Australia’s abstention on UN motion to end to Zionist occupation of Palestine

By abstaining on the latest United Nations General Assembly resolution against Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the Australian government has...

24.09.2024 10

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Why transport emissions are cancelling gains from shift to more renewable energy

The latest statistics show that almost all the gains made from reaching an average of 40% renewable energy in electricity generation in Australia...

19.09.2024 10

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Pacific activist says ‘hot mic’ incident exposes Australia’s ‘big stick’ approach to region

During the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) in Tonga, August 26-30, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and United States Deputy Secretary of State Kurt...

05.09.2024 30

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Australia should become a green good neighbour, not a ‘green superpower’

The Anthony Albanese Labor government has taken up the call by some environmental lobby groups and trade unions to develop policies that can turn...

13.08.2024 10

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The dangers of ‘green superpower’ capitalist dreaming

Australia’s official ambition to become a green/renewable energy “superpower” was a key element of Labor’s 2024 Budget. While some environment...

15.07.2024 10

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Julian Assange's release a victory for those fighting for truth, against war

The release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a victory for every movement fighting for truth and against war. As Assange once famously said:...

03.07.2024 10

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Why ecosocialism is not just a good idea but a necessity

As the climate emergency and extinction crises deepen, more activists are realising that the capitalist system is the main barrier to the urgent...

17.06.2024 30

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We don’t trust the major parties for good reasons

The post-budget approval ratings for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Peter Dutton are both in negative territory, according to...

30.05.2024 50

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Labor 2024 budget shows no heart, no guts and no vision

Labor’s 2024 budget, that supposedly addresses the cost-of-living crisis, leaves the poorest more than $220 a week under the poverty line. But...

15.05.2024 30

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The real budget choice: serve the people or serve the rich

Federal budgets are about choices about where public money should be spent. Instead, governments cynically use them to manipulate public fears and...

08.05.2024 30

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Peter Boyle

The real budget choice: serve the people or serve the rich

Federal budgets are about choices about where public money should be spent. Instead, governments cynically use them to manipulate public fears and...

08.05.2024 10

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Dutton, Zionists and far right exploit stabbings to incite racism and Islamophobia

Opposition leader Peter Dutton joined Zionist and far-right groups ramping up attacks pro-Palestinian protests and Muslim communities in the wake of...

24.04.2024 30

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Dutton, Zionists and far right exploit stabbings to incite racism and Islamophobia

Opposition leader Peter Dutton joined Zionist and far-right groups ramping up attacks pro-Palestinian protests and Muslim communities in the wake of...

24.04.2024 40

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Greens MP: Meta’s cancellation of Green Left’s Facebook page ‘a disgrace’

“Banning Green Left from a platform which the people-powered, activist media outlet has used for years to disseminate critical information, build...

11.04.2024 10

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Beware of ‘tax reform’ that helps rich get richer

For some, the name “Ken Henry” is almost synonymous with the term “tax reform”. The former Treasury boss did a major review of the tax system...

28.02.2024 7

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Green Left Show #34: Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled speaks out

Leila Khaled is an iconic Palestinian revolutionary activist. She is member of the national committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of...

20.02.2024 10

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The war on wages

National Party leader David Littleproud accused the Labor government of “pitting one Australian against the other” and fomenting “class...

15.02.2024 20

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The war on wages

National Party leader David Littleproud accused the Labor government of “pitting one Australian against the other” and fomenting “class...

03.02.2024 20

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Labor’s ‘Stage 3 Lite’ still gives biggest tax cuts to the rich

With the cost-of-living crisis biting hard, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison Coalition’s Stage 3 tax cuts for the rich became too great a...

30.01.2024 10

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The ultra-rich become even richer yet demand more tax cuts

Every January Oxfam, the aid and social justice advocacy group, releases its inequality report before corporate and state elites meet at the World...

18.01.2024 40

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The ultra-rich become even richer and demand tax cuts

Every January Oxfam, the aid and social justice advocacy group, releases its inequality report before corporate and state elites meet at the World...

18.01.2024 30

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Call it what it is: Invasion Day

In a Word War II call to arms in 1942, then Labor Prime Minister John Curtin (whose government unashamedly promoted a White Australia) said: “From...

16.01.2024 10

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Vale John Pilger, at times a near-lone voice for truth against power

Sydney-born investigative journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger passed away on December 31, 2023. He should be remembered and honoured not just...

01.01.2024 10

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‘Shared values’ exposed as a naked lie

Labor and Coalition governments justify their policies on various issues as being based on our supposed shared democratic values. These “shared...

13.12.2023 8

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What is behind US support for Israel?

Peter Boyle, a member of the national executive of the Socialist Alliance and regular correspondent for Green Left addressed a forum on December...

07.12.2023 10

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Peter Boyle

What is behind US support for Israel?

Peter Boyle, a member of the national executive of the Socialist Alliance and regular correspondent for Green Left addressed a forum on December...

06.12.2023 30

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