Australia

More than 100 staff working at the Art Gallery of NSW and their supporters protested NSW Labor鈥檚 plan to cut 51 jobs from the gallery workforce. Jim McIlroy reports.

Protesters gathered outside the electorate office of Queensland health minister Tim Nicholls鈥 office to demand the聽Liberal National Party reinstate gender-affirming care. Elias Boyle reports.

Byron Shire Council adopted an Ethical Procurement Policy, mandating council to boycott all companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements. Nick Fredman reports.

Anti-genocide activists left their message on SEC Plating, which manufactures parts for F-35 stealth bombers used by Israel to kill Palestinians in Gaza. Ben Radford reports.

Protest albums from August 2025

Mat Ward looks back at August's political news and the best new music that related to it.

A聽resident-driven petition calling on Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne to not attend a Zionist-supported summit, which purports to be against antisemitism, has attracted close to 800 signatures within a few days of being online. Peter Boyle reports.

4 panel artwork

Markela Panegyres聽speaks to artist Elaheh Mahdavi about her and her brother Arman鈥檚 recent exhibition,聽The Seasick, in Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, which explores the plight of Iranian refugees who arrived in Australia by boat, and those they left behind.

Israel鈥檚 real estate, property development, defence and finance industries are all represented at next month鈥檚聽antisemitism summit on the Gold Coast.聽Yaakov Aharon and Wendy Bacon report.

As developers hoover up public housing and the rental market boils dry, housing insecurity has become the new normal. But is the latest cheap home loan, high density model proposed by the YIMBY movement really the answer? Suzanne James investigates.

Tasmanians saw through the major parties鈥 spin and neither achieved a majority. Solomon Doyle argues it is clear people want systemic solutions to the worsening housing, healthcare and ecological destruction crises.

A contingent from the Korean community joined the nationwide march for Palestine, reports聽Peter Boyle.

Binoy Kampmark writes that even the conservative think tank聽Strategic Analysis Australia is questioning the AUKUS deal. Meanwhile, Australia is being asked by the United States to do more for its 鈥渄efence鈥.