Ken Muir will be remembered as being a formidable defender of public education, as well as as a staunch unionist and socialist, writes Dave Bell.
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The controversial聽Snowy聽Hydro聽2.0聽project in southern New South Wales is a step closer to being realised after the state government gave approval for its construction, reports Jim McIlroy.
Weekly solidarity actions to support refugees detained at a Brisbane detention facility are becoming an important flashpoint in the campaign, reports Alex Bainbridge.
Socialist councillor Sue Bolton, first elected to Moreland City Council in 2012 and re-elected in 2016, is standing again, writes Chloe DS. Here's how you can support her.
The world premiere of a 14-year struggle for jobs will be screened at this year's 鈥渧irtual鈥 Sydney Film Festival. Women of Steel, a finalist for an award, documents a hard-won campaign by women in the Illawarra to force BHP to hire them, write聽Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle.
The JobMaker plan聽is an attempt to get us to accept a return to the neoliberal regime that made jobs precarious, ran down public services and made housing and education unaffordable, writes Peter Boyle.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro persists in his attitude of denial, characterising the coronavirus as a 鈥渓ittle flu鈥: a definition that deserves to be included in the annals, not of medicine, but of political madness, writes Michael Lowy. But this madness has its logic, which is the logic of neofascism.
A tweet by Victoria鈥檚 deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Annaliese van Diemen on the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook鈥檚 arrival in Australia, which provoked a furious response from right-wing culture warriors, has led to a greater awareness of the legacy of colonialism, writes Chloe DS.听
The federal government is demanding (un)employment agencies get proactive and schedule appointments with unemployed workers 鈥 despite mutual obligations being suspended until June 1, writes Kerry Smith.
Given the composition of the National COVID-19 Co-ordinating Commission, it is little wonder its pandemic 鈥渞ecovery鈥 plan is based on public handouts to the corporate gas sector, write Margaret Gleeson and Pip Hinman.
The federal government is pursuing criminal prosecutions against a former secret agent and his lawyer for allegedly revealing Australia had bugged East Timor cabinet meetings during negotiations over the Timor Sea boundary. Paul Oboohov spoke to Timor Sea Justice Forum's Susan Connelly聽about the case.
Rights groups have slammed a last-minute decision by the Indonesian authorities to deny parole to five Papuan activists jailed on charges of treason over a peaceful protest in August last year, writes James Balowski.
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