Federal Labor maintained its support for the fossil fuel industry against community demands for genuine climate action, by voting down a motion that would have blocked the so-called Improved Native Forest Management system. The Greens were split on the vote. Alex Bainbridge looks at what is at stake.
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Home affairs and immigration minister Tony Burke’s new immigration policy is a boost to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and its Trumpite politics of hate, racism and division, argues Sue Bolton.
The disaster in Nepal, Tibet and China has been described as being like a “horror movie” — only it is too real to ignore the fact that climate change is the greatest security threat of our time. Pip Hinman argues for the need to challenge Australia’s head-in-sand approach.
Sam Wainwright argues we urgently need to step up the fight within the union movement to stop AUKUS and the associated drive to militarism. If there is a war we need to fight right now, it is the one to destroy their attempt to claim social license for these death machines.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claims he wants Labor’s national conference to “showcase” the party as inclusive, open and democratic. But he is just as committed to avoid discussing AUKUS and Palestine, despite sharp internal divisions on both. Markela Panegyres reports.
Billionaire rule has been grossly unjust and patently unsustainable for a long time, but now it is revealing a new level of political toxicity, argues Peter Boyle.
Redistributing the wealth and making mining sustainable requires transitioning to a democratic and publicly run industry. Sam Wainwright argues this is not Pauline Hanson’s vision for the mining industry. Hers is about enabling billionaire owners more ability to profiteer.
The federal Labor government is boasting its small housing tax changes are the most comprehensive housing plan in generations. Rachel Evans argues they aren’t and lays out what could be done to fix housing unaffordability.
The Socialist Alliance (SA) condemns the US Department of Justice's decision to reopen a three-decade old case against former Cuban president Raúl Castro, warning it could serve as a pretext for military action against the Caribbean nation.
The Pauline Hanson One Nation (PHON) party’s victory in the federal seat of Farrer by-election is an advance for racist, anti-immigrant and right-wing politics.
Labor’s May 12 budget formalised the expected cut of $36.2 billion from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) over the next four years, but without providing detail.
The Anthony Albanese government’s decision to savage the National Disability Insurance Scheme ranks high in the scale of betrayals by neoliberal Labor governments, argues Graham Matthews.