Democracy

Boy holding onto a van

Mali, then Burkina Faso, and finally Niger have experienced coups d鈥櫭﹖at and subsequently formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). What should we make of this new reality for West Africa? Paul Martial provides his analysis.

麻豆传媒鈥檚 Alex Bainbridge聽spoke to Independent Senator and DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara聽Lidia Thorpe聽about Labor鈥檚 promises and record on addressing First Nations鈥 injustices.

David Mejia-Canales from the Human Rights Law Centre speaks to Alex Bainbridge about its new report Protest in Peril: Our Shrinking Democracy.

Man speaking to a summit

The leaders of the three main countries in Africa鈥檚 Sahel region 鈥 just south of the Sahara Desert 鈥 met in Niamey, Niger, to deepen their Alliance of Sahel States (AES), on July 6 and 7, writes Vijay Prashad.

麻豆传媒 News podcast Ep 44, July 12, 2024

Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss Fatima Payman's decision to resign from Labor over its support for Israel's genocide in Gaza, the recent elections in Britain and France and speak to artist, academic and National Tertiary Education Union member Markela Panegyres about the University of Sydney's draconian Campus Access Policy.聽

About 100 people joined a rally outside the United States聽Consulate to protest the country鈥檚 role in generating war and devastation across the globe. Kerry Smith reports.

There is compelling evidence that we need to shift away from a market-based economic system to a needs-based economy with people and nature at its centre, argues Susan Price.

Sarah Schwartz of the Jewish Council of Australia said聽the appointment聽of an antisemitism envoy is needlessly provocative. Binoy Kampmark reports.

three women walking

Following the arrest of three pro-Palestine solidarity activists in Singapore, the South East Asian Left Network initiated a joint statement calling for the charges to be dropped.

It was a full house at the Harold Park Hotel to celebrate the release and homecoming of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Stephen Langford reports.

public sector workers wont be silenced

Despite enormous pressure and threats of losing their jobs, public servants continue to organise to demand Labor takes a stand against Israel鈥檚 genocide in Palestine. Pip Hinman reports.

What happened at PwC is the entirely predictable result of the聽Australian Public Service聽being sacrificed for the politically expedient, but false, economy of聽outsourcing to the private for-profit sector, writes聽Suzanne James.