Queensland Socialist Alliance Queensland, buoyed by a successful federal election campaign is registering the party for state elections. Alex Bainbridge reports.
News
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The major parties’ support for salmon farming and native forest logging means that there has been virtually no mainstream discussion about mitigating climate change and a just transition for workers and the environment. Solomon Doyle reports.
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The campaign to restore voluntary assisted dying rights in the Northern Territory has taken a step forward, with the current inquiry opening for public consultations. Suzanne James reports.
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A Voice For Members, the first challenger in 32 years in the Victorian Community and Public Sector Union, won about 70% of total votes cast. Conor Macleod reports.
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Students and staff at the University of Tasmania are outraged at the university administration’s decision to cut critical courses and staff, reports Solomon Doyle.
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Protests across the country condemned Israel’s continued starvation campaign in Gaza and Australia’s complicity in the genocide. Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle and Jordan AK report.
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Young Black leaders marked this year’s National Indigenous Day of Commemoration by discussing the challenges they face. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Anti-Zionist Jewish groups have rejected Jillian Segal’s recommendations to the Australian government as an attempt to silence dissent about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Kerry Smith reports.
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Ecosocialism 2025 organisers are excited to announce that the conference will host the biggest delegation of Asia-Pacific activists to the conference since 2019. But we need your help. Fred Fuentes reports.
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Hundreds of Star Casino workers took strike action to coincide with the final State of Origin rugby league game. Elias Boyle reports.
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Free Palestine Melbourne’s successful strategy day drew activist, community, faith, union and council groups representing 25 different groups. Michael Bull reports.
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On the 91st week of consecutive protests, activists stand up to the media and government slurs by mobilising in their thousands. Pip Hinman and Jordan AK report.
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A coroner has found Zachary Rolfe, who shot Kumanjayi Walker three times but was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter three years ago, was racist and made 32 recommendations. Kerry Smith reports.
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Housing activists took to the streets in Glebe to show opposition to New South Wales Labor’s demolition plans for public housing sites. Kerry Smith reports.
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Hundreds of workers at the Star Casino walked off the job to protest the entertainment group’s plans to cut workers’ penalty rates. Justin Beevers and Elias Boyle report.
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Turning the Ship, the new Rising Tide film about last November’s People’s Blockade of Newcastle coal port, was launched by 300 people in Gadigal Country/Sydney. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The powers-that-be are seeking to silence the anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist, anti-war industry justice movement, but the movement is fighting back. Jepke Goudsmit reports.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is failing to win people to Labor’s commitment to the United States on AUKUS, which, as Peter Boyle argues, explains why he was less-than-honest in his John Curtin Oration speech.
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Jillian Segal, with Labor’s support, wants to make it harder for people to oppose genocide and Zionism. Jonathan Strauss argues that this racist plan needs to be rejected.
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Making profit the purpose of the childcare industry means that it will always be dangerous, argues former childcare worker Adam Bremner.
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The final slate of reforms from the Equality Amendment Act came into effect, marking a significant step forward for transgender and non-binary people. Josh Adams reports.
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Isaac Nellist speaks to Victorian teacher unionist Adam Bremner on the һƷ̽ Show about the campaign for better pay and more resources for schools.
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Home affairs minister Tony Burke is again complaining that a 2023 landmark High Court ruling has limited his ability to lock up migrants and refugees. Chloe DS argues that pressure needs to continue to force Labor to keep its promises on refugees.
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Nearly 600 First Nations people have died in custody since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was tabled. We need a lot more truth-telling and real action, argues Peter Boyle.
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Francesca Albanese’s report for the United Nations Human Rights Council makes for stark and dark reading, writes Binoy Kampmark.
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Wilderness Australia is calling on NSW Labor not to join the federal Australian Carbon Credit Unit scheme, and instead prioritse real emissions cuts. Isaac Nellist reports.
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The only beneficiaries of Australia’s reversion to colonial subservience to an increasingly authoritarian United States president will be a small section of the political and corporate elite — and at huge cost to the majority, argues Peter Henning.
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Despite Trump’s most extreme ramblings and declarations that he doesn’t care about international law, Labor is still going along with it, Sam Wainwright told the һƷ̽ Show.
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The movement in solidarity with Palestine in Western Australia is continuing to grow and diversify despite repression and censorship, reports Sam Wainwright.
World
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United States President Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods, in protest against what he described as a “Witch Hunt” against former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, reports Federico Fuentes.
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July 6 marked 27 years since the Biak massacre in 1998, when Indonesian security forces massacred scores of people in Biak, West Papua, reports Kerry Smith.
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Phil Hearse investigates the links between the genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the struggle for control over critical minerals.
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In the second part of our interview, һƷ̽’s Ben Radford sits down with Panamanian union leader José Cambra to talk about the mass opposition to the recent agreement signed between the Panamanian and United States governments to re-establish US military bases and personnel along the Panama Canal.
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һƷ̽’s Ben Radford sat down with José Cambra, an executive committee member of the Panama Teachers’ Association, about the country-wide strike and the government’s heavy-handed response.
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United States President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” represents one of the biggest transfers of wealth from workers and the poor to the billionaire class in US history, reports Malik Miah.
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Two years after Peruvian revolutionary and ecosocialist Hugo Blanco’s death at 88, his daughter, María Blanco — an activist and organiser with grassroots feminist collective Género Rebelde — sat down with Ben Radford to talk about her father’s life and legacy.
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The Socialist Party of Malaysia is protesting the invitation issued to United States President Donald Trump to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-US summit in Malaysia, reports Susan Price.
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In her second interview, Australian citizen journalist Jude Alexander spoke via text message with nutritionist Dr Mohammed Hamad, about his arrest and 47-day detention by Israeli authorities. Dr Hamad is living in a tent in Gaza with his wife and five children.
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Anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky delivered this recorded message to the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, United States.
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Just over a month ago, Australian Caroline Smith flew out of Perth for Egypt’s capital, Cairo, to join a global contingent of people seeking to challenge the siege on Gaza and demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinian people, who are living under conditions of genocide. This is her story.
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Twenty to thirty Kurdistan Workers’ Party guerillas will come down from the mountains and destroy their weapons in front of witnesses from around the world, in a symbolic act of the PKK’s commitment to its disarmament and dissolution, reports Sarah Glynn.
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Serhii Shlyapnikov speaks to political scientist and author Manfred Elfstrom, whose research focuses on labour protests in China.
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Isaac Nellist speaks to Democratic Socialist of America member Winnie Marion about Zohran Mamdani's important win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary.
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Russian leftist and anti-war political prisoners are calling on politicians and the media around the world to work towards the release of political prisoners in Russia, reports Federico Fuentes.
Culture
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Rainbow Collective’s latest documentary, To Kill a War Machine, explores Britain-based Palestine Action’s direct action tactics. Dom Williams saw the film before it was withdrawn.
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The Candy Royalle and Hind Hut was formally opened by muralist Saffaa, in conjunction with the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville, reports Rachel Evans.
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Abundance has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians. But the book directs its sights towards planning regulations as the obstacle to abundance, not to the real blockages imposed by vested interests, argues Michael Roberts.
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һƷ̽’s Federico Fuentes speaks with Marxist sociologist Kevin B Anderson, whose new book delves into Karl Marx’s final writings to unearth key ideas of critical importance for socialists today.