Albanese’s talk of ‘Australian values’ masks Labor’s pandering to the rich

Anthony Albanese started his victory speech addressing “My fellow Australians”—and went on to invoke Australia no fewer than 43 more times over 22 minutes.
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Hundreds of students join Sydney Uni SGM to reject antisemitism smears against Palestine protests

Over 200 students packed a Student General Meeting at the University of Sydney this week, rejecting the university's new definition of antisemitism and standing up its crackdown on protest.
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Greens lose seats but millions of voters can still be a force for change

The Greens have suffered a heavy blow in the 2025 election, losing most of their lower house seats and failing to win any new ones.
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Thumping win for Labor as Dutton’s Trumpism rejected

The Liberals have been reduced to a rump but Labor’s historic victory is not the emphatic endorsement of Albanese’s agenda that it might seem.
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Unions

Climate action

Labor’s gas expansion: Climate vandalism that tramples on Aboriginal rights

On Tuesday 6 May, Gomeroi people led a 150-strong crowd of trade unionists and climate activists on a march from the NSW Supreme Court to Parliament House.

Climate emergency means we need to get off the gas

LA fires are an unnatural disaster

Palestine

Israel plans new escalation as its starves Gaza

Israel has approved a new escalation of its offensive in Gaza, preparing to seize more land for a possible permanent occupation.

Students defy uni attacks on right to protest for Palestine

Protests erupt across US following attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil

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Racism and Indigenous rights

Labor’s Indigenous jobs program: where are the jobs?

Albanese promised his government would create “real jobs” for Indigenous people. Its new program offers only 700 jobs this year.

‘I was attacked for wearing a hijab’

Joyce Clague: a life of service and solidarity

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Australia

Labor’s historic vote hides continued major party decline

Labor’s election victory defied expectations, with the Albanese government increasing its majority in the lower house and on track to have the highest number of seats since Bob Hawke’s 1987 win.

Dutton’s support drops, but little on offer from Albanese

Delivering affordable housing requires ending investment handouts for the rich

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Sexism and LGBTIQ

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International

Trump wants a deal with Putin to loot Ukraine for US interests

Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s public dressing down of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the Oval Office sent shockwaves across the Western political establishment.

‘Our lives over their profits’—huge Greek general strike demands justice over train crash

Germany—mainstream parties fuel the rise of fascist AfD

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Long reads

Indonesia: behind the rise of Prabowo from war criminal to president

Prabowo Subianto will take office as President of Indonesia in October. He is a military strongman with a sordid history of killings and human rights abuses. How did he win the election? An Indonesian socialist explains the background to his rise.

White Australia and the labour movement

Jose Maria Sison: a flawed revolutionary

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Radical history and theory

Will Trump lead to a fascist America?

Adam Adelpour looks at the difference between fascism in power and other forms of far right politics, and the lessons from history on how to stop them

Trump, genocide, climate chaos—Why you need to be a socialist

The Freedom Ride 60 years on

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Solidarity is a socialist group with branches across Australia. We are opposed to the madness of capitalism, which is plunging us into global recession and misery at the same time as wrecking the planet’s future. We are taking the first steps towards building an organisation that can help lead the fight for an alternative system based on mass democratic planning, in the interests of human need not profit.

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