Labor fails to stand up to Queensland’s attack on trans rights: fight to overturn the ban

Fresh off the back of Donald Trump’s latest attacks on gender affirming care, the anti-trans right in Australia is on the offensive.

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Anti-Zionist Jews stand in defence of Palestine solidarity

Up to 400 Jews and supporters joined an anti-Zionist Jewish rally outside the Victorian Parliament in solidarity with Palestine.

Trump’s Golden Age of racism and corporate greed fuels the far right

Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was a rallying call for the far right across the globe. He railed against climate change, ramped up anti-immigrant racism and fuelled transphobia.

More Black kids locked up as racist imprisonment surges

The failure of the Voice referendum left racists and the right emboldened. There has been a particularly racist panic about “youth crime”.

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Unions

Union democracy summit discusses Labor’s attack on CFMEU

Officials from nine unions met in Canberra in early December for the “Trade Unions for Democracy” summit, held in response to the Labor government’s union busting attack on the CFMEU.

Neoliberal onslaught brings NSW mental health system to crisis point

Rail bans suspended for New Year’s Eve, but workers willing to fight

Climate action

LA fires are an unnatural disaster

The catastrophic wildfires that have engulfed Los Angeles are the city’s worst ever fires—and potentially its worst ever disaster of any kind.

Rich countries refuse to pay for climate action at talks in petrostate

Disasters in Spain and Florida a sign of growing climate chaos

Palestine

Gaza ceasefire at last, but Israel’s still not done killing

Israel has finally agreed to a ceasefire after 15 months of genocide in Gaza, following its killing of 46,700 people.

End of Assad’s brutal rule opens new space for Syria’s popular movement

Ceasefire in Lebanon but no sign Israel will end its wars

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Racism and Indigenous rights

Labor’s refugee shame as Liberals claim ‘we are running the Immigration system’

The three anti-refugee laws rushed through Parliament in the dying days of the last parliamentary sitting are even worse than those of the Howard and Dutton era.

Over 100 days fighting for permanent visas

Refugee encampments push Labor for visa justice

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Australia

Victorian Labor launches attack on right to protest

The Victorian Labor government is using the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue last month as an excuse to crack down on protesters.

Australia spends big to keep China out of region

Albanese short-changing workers and still backing Israel’s war crimes

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Sexism and LGBTIQ

#MeToo at an impasse—Why is the government failing to stop violence against women?

Critics argue the government response to violence against women is failing, writes Lucy Honan, but recognising its roots in capitalism and the family is necessary to addressing it.