The second-term Anthony Albanese government has no excuse not to raise welfare payments in a cost-of-living and housing crisis, argues Pip Hinman. 

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Climate organisations are alarmed that the federal offshore gas regulator has just approved Santos’ controversial and dirty giant offshore Barossa gas project under the Timor Sea. Pip Hinman reports.

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Calls to scrap or, at the very least, closely scrutinise the AUKUS military pact are growing in the lead up to the federal election, reports Pip Hinman.

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NSW doctors have been campaigning for a new award for more than a year, after NSW Labor lifted the wages cap in 2023. Pip Hinman reports.

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Both major parties have remained in full support of the AUKUS military pact, which locks Australia into the United States’ war plans. Pip Hinman reports. 

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As Israel unleashes more bombing terror across Gaza, protesters took to the streets in emergency snap actions across Australia. Pip Hinman reports. 

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Defence minister Richard Marles is keen to rebuke China for sending warnings to Australian military vessels and planes, but Australia is also playing chicken in the South China Sea. Pip Hinman reports.

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NSW Greens MLC Amanda Cohn has introduced a bill to significantly expand access to abortion services across the state. Pip Hinman reports. 

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Sarah Schwartz, Executive Officer of the Jewish Council of Australia, has been attacked by the right for criticising Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s conflation of Jews with Zionism. Pip Hinman reports.

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While expenditure on road transport is necessary, even urgent in some places, the climate emergency also urgently demands alternatives to road and air transportation for people and goods in a continent as vast as Australia, argues Pip Hinman.

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Amnesty International Australia, rights organisations and pro-Palestine solidarity organisers have criticised the NSW Premier’s call to ban Palestine protests outside places of worship. Pip Hinman reports.

Senators Lidia Thorpe, Fatima Payman and Mehreen Faruqi are using their positions to fight  back against the systemic racism that Senator Pauline Hanson represents, argues Pip Hinman. 

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The Labor-majority Inner West Council has rammed through a controversial plan to begin the creeping commercialisation of Camperdown Memorial Rest Park in Sydney’s inner west. Pip Hinman reports.

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Since its enterprise agreement expired six months ago, the Rail Tram Bus Union has been pushing for new, fair contract with the NSW Labor government and private operators. Pip Hinman reports.

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Australia, Britain and Canada are responsible for 60% of Commonwealth emissions, while representing just 6% of Commonwealth countries’ populations. Pip Hinman reports. 

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To tackle the worsening climate emergency we need to build a mass movement that opposes the profits-driven capitalist system, argues Pip Hinman.

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Forest campaigners have renewed efforts to stop the New South Wales Forestry Corporation’s destructive logging in Bulga State Forest, reports Pip Hinman.

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Attempts to shut down protests marking 12 months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza backfired, leading to the biggest protests this year marching in Gadigal Country/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne. Pip Hinman reports.

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As Israel launches a new front in its year-long hot war on Palestine, the risk that the conflict, backed by the United States, could become nuclear is a frightening possibility, writes Pip Hinman.

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Union bodies, leaders and rank-and-file Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union members are pushing back against Labor’s unprecedented draconian anti-CFMEU law. Pip Hinman reports.

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The oppressive campaign of ‘cancelling’ those who talk about Israel’s genocide won’t work, as more and more people are speaking out, argues Pip Hinman. 

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Labor came to government on the back of a strong vote for real action on climate change, but have now reneged on the promise to introduce stronger environment protection laws. Pip Hinman reports. 

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Defence minister Richard Marles and foreign affairs minister Penny Wong groveled more than usual at the annual AUSMIN meeting as they promised to push forward on AUKUS nuclear submarines and bases. Pip Hinman reports. 

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The day after scientists marked the hottest day on record, Labor’s federal resources minister Madeleine King announced new gas exploration permits for fossil fuel giants. Pip Hinman reports. 

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Activists from the newly-formed Willoughby for Palestine spoke to their council about it supporting a ceasefire motion, as other councils have done. Pip Hinman reports.

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Australia’s nuclear regulator greenlit the Australian Submarine Agency to proceed with plans for a nuclear waste storage facility at HMAS Stirling Base in Rockingham, Western Australia. Pip Hinman reports.

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Teachers have joined the union covering school cleaners in NSW to campaign for the Labor government to bring school cleaning back in-house. Pip Hinman reports.

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As Israel ramps up its threats on Iran, Syria and Lebanon the campaign to abolish nuclear weapons has never been so urgent, writes Pip Hinman.

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