First Nations people, unionists and environmental activists took their protest about Santos’ coal seam gas plans in the Pilliga Forest to NSW Parliament, ahead of a decision by theÌýNative Title Tribunal. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Novelist, filmmaker and academic Tracy Sorensen, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014, passed away on May 5.ÌýNeville Spencer writes about her life, which included a strong focus on social justice.Ìý
Labor has secured a second term, with a landslide victory, but unless unions, social and community movements organise for real change, it will continue to bend to the will of the billionaire class, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Isaac Nellist.Ìý
The second-term Anthony Albanese government has no excuse not to raise welfare payments in a cost-of-living and housing crisis, argues Pip Hinman.Ìý
Amid the biggestÌýhousing in Australia’s history and public housing being sold off, the most vulnerableÌýpublic housing tenants say they are now even more isolated. Suzanne James reports.
May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, but Ricardo Jones, a doctor and midwife, is spending it with a 14-year prison sentence for assisting with a home birth in which the baby later died, reports Tamara Pearson.
The Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship carrying human rights volunteers and humanitarian aid to Gaza, was attacked by armed drones in international waters, reports Kerry Smith.
Israel’s strategic objectives, which involve the elimination of Hamas, have been shown to be unattainable. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Thousands of trade unionists went on strike and marched to New South Wales parliament on May Day, International Workers’ Day, to remind Labor of its need to provide safe working conditions and better pay. Isaac Nellist reports.
In the first part of our interview, Canadian socialist activist and author Sam Gindin discusses the impacts of United States President Donald Trump’s tariff war on global capitalism with Â鶹´«Ã½â€™sÌýFederico Fuentes.
Sarah Hathway, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Corio, told a pro-Palestine rally that we cannot and will not address the existential threat of runaway climate change when we’re investing in genocide and war.
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