All out to defend the CFMEU—Stop Labor’s foul union busting attack

The Albanese Labor government has imposed administration on the whole CFMEU construction division.

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Refugee protest camps keep fighting to demand Labor deliver permanent visas

Refugees have begun a series of continuous 24-hour protests for permanent visas, with encampments in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane as well as protests in Adelaide.

Black incarceration crisis deepens as Labor races to the right

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the most incarcerated group on the face of the planet.

Why the West hates Iran

US and Australian hostility to Iran is not driven by concern at the regime’s repression at home but by competition for influence in the Middle East, writes Miro Sandev.

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Unions

Union power on display as CFMEU rallies against administration

Tens of thousands of construction workers walked off the job to protest the attack on the CFMEU on Tuesday in a nationwide strike.

Urgent need for resistance as Labor passes laws to seize control of CFMEU

Resisting the attack on the CFMEU

Climate action

SA union leaders join discussion on climate action and Rising Tide’s Newcastle blockade

Representatives of two key blue collar unions were featured panel members at a 1 August film screening on Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide to build this year’s Rising Tide blockade of the Newcastle coal port.

Dutton’s nuclear power plan aims to extend coal power

NSW Labor funds coal power extension in climate failure

Mass meeting at Sydney Uni votes to cut ties with Israel and back Palestine’s right to resist

Over 600 students at Sydney Uni have voted overwhelmingly not just to cut the uni’s ties with Israel, but affirming the right of Palestinians to armed resistance and endorsing one, secular, democratic state in Palestine from the River to the sea.

Pine Gap base aiding Israel’s operations in Gaza

Construction workers walk off to support ANU encampment

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Racism and Indigenous rights

Refugees take fight for permanent visas to Labor’s doorstep

Refugees have dramatically stepped up their campaign for permanent visas, with encampments in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Labor dancing to Dutton’s racist tune on immigration detainees—again

Labor wants Trump-like powers to deport refugees

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Australia

Australia uses Indonesia and the US to choke China

In late August, the Albanese government and the President-elect of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, agreed to a new “defence” treaty that is wholly about China.

Payman’s stand shows pressure on Albanese over Gaza still growing

Children the losers as the right fights its reading wars

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Sexism and LGBTIQ

Imane Khelif row exposes sexism and transphobia in sport

A toxic wave of sexism, racial stereotypes and transphobic hate was unleashed after Algerian boxer Imane Khelif beat Angela Carini in just 46 seconds in the Paris Olympics.