Unions, peace and aid groups are condemning Israel’s air strikes and calling on the Australian government to demand Israel cease fire. Isaac Nellist reports.

The insistence on Israel’s “right to exist” is really a demand for the maintenance of a supremacist “Jewish’’ state, in which Palestinians are second-class citizens. Sam Wainwright argues that this makes Israel an apartheid state which is incompatible with peace.

The insistence on Israel’s “right to exist” is really a demand for the maintenance of a supremacist “Jewish’’ state, in which Palestinians are second-class citizens. Sam Wainwright argues that this makes Israel an apartheid state which is incompatible with peace.

Activist Stephen Langford is refusing to pay a fine for using liquid chalk to make a statement about the treatment of refugees, reports Kerry Smith.

Commuters in Sydney’s eastern suburbs are angry with the New South Wales government’s plan to cut 25 bus routes in the south-eastern suburbs, reports Jim McIlroy.

Kerry Smith reports on a statement released by journalists, media workers, writers and commentators calling on the mainstream media to improve its coverage of Palestine, including avoiding “both siderism”.

We should protect whistleblowers, not punish them, protesters said as they rallied in defence of Bernard Collaery and Witness K. Jim McIlroy reports.

Tamil Remembrance Day on May 16 was marked in Sydney and Melbourne. Rachel Evans and Chris Slee report.

The campaign for the de-amalgamation of three inner west councils is gaining traction in the lead-up to council elections on September 4, writes Peter Boyle.

The campaign to save historic Willow Grove in Parramatta from being torn down to make way for the new museum is ramping up, writes Susan Price.

A protest at Sydney Town Hall on May 16 called on the US President Joe Biden to break from the reactionary policies of the previous Trump administration and stop supporting Turkey’s massacre of Kurds.

Filipino-Australian community groups have launched a petition to demand the Australian government stop military aid to the Philippine, reports Patricia Arcilla.

Devron Brock is one of many people who never planned on becoming an activist, but that ongoing bipartisan cruelty to refugees has turned her into one.

Graham Matthews argues that now that the national disablity insurance scheme has matured, the federal government wants to disown it, down-size and destroy it.

Mental health nurses from Belmont, John Hunter, Morriset, Maitland and the Waratah Mental Health branch are calling for a real wage rise and better conditions. Kerry Smith reports.

The corporate media is giving the federal government’s latest budget a big thumbs up, despite its brazen hand-outs for billionaires and big corporations, writes Alex Bainbridge.

Jews against the Occupation condemns, in the strongest possible terms the current attacks on Palestinians in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.

Residents continue to call on the NSW government to stop its destruction of public housing in Glebe and Eveleigh. Rachel Evans reports.

The federal government delivered another budget for the billionaire class that runs Australia and is hell-bent on putting their profits ahead of the climate emergency, writes Peter Boyle.

More than 100 people gathered to demand an end to sexism and for justice for survivors, reports Jim McIlroy.

Rachel Evans reports on a snap action outside the ABC offices to demand the media cover Israeli attacks on Palestinian communities in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.

Trans and gender liberation share a central goal with feminism: we want a world where it doesn’t matter what gender you are, argues Arie Huybregts.

After all the fury and angst, a private track proposed for a great swathe of Bathurst’s Wahluu Mount Panorama is no more. Charles Boag writes about why it’s important to take a stand on issues, big and small.

The NSW government’s water management plan is in crisis since its floodplain harvesting regulations were rejected a second time. Tracey Carpenter reports.

West Papuan refugees and solidarity activists want the Australian Federal Police to stop training killers, reports Kerry Smith.

Activists want a new bill calling for the old NSW gas exploration licences to be cancelled to be supported by MPs from all parties. Jim McIlroy reports. 

Jim McIlroy reports on big march of Colombian-Australians in solidarity with the victims of state violence in Colombia.

For the world’s most persecuted people, the prospect of a return to ‘normal’ after the pandemic does not look very bright, writes Joanna Psaros.

Mary Merkenich reports on the findings of an Australian Education Union survey of education workers that said workload remained a major issue.

More than 100 people took part in a “Tour de Carmichael”, a 105-kilometre cycle for Country through sacred Wangan and Jagalingou land to Adani’s coal mine site, reports Kerry Smith.