Farmers in the Namoi Valley are angryWhitehavenCoal has been given the go-ahead to expandits Narrabri mine. Jim McIlroy reports.
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News
Jim McIlroy reports on a picnic and walk-a-thon in solidarity with Cuba that was organised by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society.
Hundreds of residents protested Viva Energy’s proposal for a floating gas import terminal in Corio Bay. Sue Bull reports.
The recently released 2021 National Student Safety Surveyshows that sexual harassment and assault is widespread on university campuses. Sarah Hathway reports.
People travelled hundreds of kilometres by road from across the Northern Territory to put their opposition on the record for aSenate inquiry into shale gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. Hannah Ekin reports.
Aged care workers and nurses protestedRegis Healthcare’s proposed agreement whichattemptsto weaken conditions and offer minimal wage rises. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
The NSW government wants to sell a vacant site in Redfern that was previously 100% public housing to its property developer mates. Peter Boyle reports.
Peter Boyle reports that the NSW Liberal-Nationalgovernment wants to sell600 Elizabeth St, Redfern —vacant public land that was previously 100% public housing —to property developers.
Environment groups are concerned about the recent merger between Western Australia uranium hopeful Vimy Resources and Deep Yellow,Kerry Smith reports.
Dying With Dignity NSW and Go Gentle Australia and supporters of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill have pressed the case outside the NSW parliament. Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter report.
A vigil for the release ofPalestinian aid worker Mohammed El Halabi was organised on April 2. Kerry Smith reports.
Analysis
The new IPCC report is upbeat about the possibilities to keep global warming at bay. ѲʲԱ argues there is no doubt that leaving fossil fuels in the ground is the bottom line.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was less than honest when he told Insidersthat the government’s vision of tax reform includes a “simpler tax system, a fairer tax system and lower tax”, writesAlex Bainbridge.
The Greater Sydney Parklands Trust Bill 2021representsa threatSydney’s iconic parklands by opening the door to privatisation. Ben Radford reports.
The NSW Coalition, with the support of NSW Labor and the conservative crossbench, haveenactedlaws that effectively ban direct actions. Abigail Boyd describes the anti-democratic pushto pass these draconian new laws.
The refugee deal with New Zealand offers some mitigation to Australia's cruel refugee policy. But, Binoy Kampmarkasks, what will happento the many hundreds of others in detention?
The integrated nature of the world's economies means that it is a fiction that national budgets are divorced from the global setting,William Briggs explains.
Fionn Skiotistalks about North and East Syria Solidarity,whichseeksto inform people and collect material support for the revolution in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
World
The cop who fatally shot Amir Locke during a predawn, “no-knock” raid in February, will not face charges, reports Malik Miah.
John Mullen shares his analysis of the politics of Jean-Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise.
Viktor Orbán’s conservative-nationalist Fidesz party won the April 3 Hungarian general elections, but failed to achieve the required votes on an anti-LGBTI referendum, reports Dick Nichols.
Vitaliy DudindiscussesRussia’s invasion, the peoples’ resistance to it and key issues such as Ukraine’s far right, NATO and sending weapons to Ukraine.
Protests erupted after Peru’s Constitutional Court reinstated a 2017 pardon granted to imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori, reports Ben Radford.
Tesla is being sued in a class action in the United States over a shocking racist culture and practice, reports Malik Miah.
Against the odds, Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York City, won a historic ballot to form a union on April 1, reports Malik Miah.
The Republican Party is spearheading a reactionary drive against the hard-won gains of the women's liberation and LGBTI rights movements, reports Barry Sheppard.
French anti-capitalist activist and commentator John Mullendiscussesthe upcoming French election.
Russian feminist activist and historian Ella Rossman,fromFeminist Anti-War Resistance, talksabout the challenges this new movement faces.
Culture
FilmmakersRodrigo Acuna and Nicholas Ford are aiming to havetheir Venezuela: The Cost of Challengingan Empire film ready in July. Jim McIlroy reports.
Ian Ellis Jones reviews Don Fitz's recent book about Cuba's revolutionary heath care system.
Happening shows the importance of legal abortion through the experience of a young woman forced into backyard abortion in early 1960s France.Barry Healyreviews.
Mexican novelistEmiliano Monge exposes the spiritual vacuum at the heart of machismo and the bleakness of Mexican patriarchal politics.Barry Healy reviews.
Writer/director Geoff Sykes has done a great job of re-imagining Australian rural political conflict into a modern setting with his new play, write Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter.