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NTEU members at the University of Melbourne have voted to accept an EBA deal that falls short on all three claims the branch focussed on for this campaign—workloads, sick leave for casuals, and a consultative major change clause.

Anger at Anthony Albanese is growing. The cost of living keeps getting worse and all the government can offer is more cuts.

One Nation’s Victorian campaign launch opened not with promises to address the cost-of-living crisis, but with an AI-generated video depicting a Sudanese man with a machete, a Middle Eastern man with a bomb strapped to him and an Aboriginal person describing how they are paid on the basis of identity rather than merit.

Public sector workers have had to fight Victoria’s Labor government throughout 2026 over pay.

A campaign spreading fear about Victorian government debt is being used to soften opposition to cuts following the November state election.

Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal has released a new report that smears left-wing and progressive activists as antisemitic and updates the envoy’s “priorities” for an authoritarian crackdown on the right to protest and free speech to silence opposition to Israel.

In August, residents of Sanderson Street in Yarraville in Melbourne used parked cars and wheelie bins to obstruct workers trying to install 15 metre power polls.

Wages are going backward as the cost of living keeps rising. Australia’s economy is also faltering. But all the answers being pushed by business and the mainstream media will mean workers are hit even harder.

With the recent introduction of draconian anti-union legislation, comparisons of Queensland LNP Premier Crisafulli with Campbell Newman are becoming more obvious.

On 22 October, University of Sydney staff walked out on a 24-hour strike, their second this semester. Staff in the NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union) are fighting for a wage increase in line with inflation, greater job security, freedom of political expression, and guard-rails on the use of AI.

Since the beginning of October, a huge wave of struggle has erupted across France.

Israel’s elections have shown there will be no progressive change from within the apartheid state, and that racism and support for genocide are thoroughly entrenched.

New Greens leader David Shoebridge has opposed Australia sending weapons to Ukraine.

James Supple looks at what socialist mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani has achieved in his first year in office and what it shows about the problems with socialist electoralism

David Glanz explains how the onslaught of cuts from the newly elected Liberal government in Victoria in 1992 provoked mass strike action

Mark Gillespie argues that the UK Green party is right to say that Zionism is racism, and that the ideology behind the state of Israel has led to apartheid and ethnic cleansing