Green Left News Podcast Ep 8: Labor’s dud budget, May Day rallies & Palestinian resistance

May 19, 2023
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Green Left journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist go through the latest news from Australia and around the world. For more information on all of these stories, read our in-depth coverage here.

Music and editing by LittleArcherBeats.

Video: Labor’s dud budget, May Day rallies & Palestinian resistance | Green Left News Podcast. Green Left.

Green Left articles featured in this episode:

Australia

Labor’s budget ignores the needs of millions

Labor’s budget is an attack on NDIS, Medicare

Young people left out by Labor’s budget

Labor must raise the JobSeeker rate for all

‘The welfare system is stealing people’s present and future’

Rent report says less than 1% are affordable for minimum-wage workers

‘Port Kembla is no place for a nuclear base’

Earth Care Café for peace not war

Knitting Nannas challenge anti-protest laws

NT Labor gives fracking the go-ahead

Ngarluma Elder restates her disappointment with work beginning at Perdaman fertiliser plant

Inaugural Love, Art & Revolution Film Festival a success

Forum discusses medical misogyny, seeks support for change

Community rallies against Geelong council job cuts

Nurses and midwives discuss making workplaces sustainable

Victorian NTEU members stop work for better pay, working conditions

Union members locked out, strike at James Cook University

Sydney Uni NTEU votes to end historic strike campaign, but fight continues

‘501s’ protest inhumane detention at MITA

‘501s’ demand Labor keep its promise to end indefinite detention

 

International

Austria: What’s behind the historic Communist surge in Salzburg?

Video: Green Left Party campaigns for real democratic change

Palestinian trade unions call for worldwide action to end Israeli apartheid

Khader Adnan dies in Israeli prison

Ballarat Trades Hall marks Nakba, calls for justice

Sudan: ‘Our people will ultimately triumph over tyrants’

Sudan: International community must act now

Iranian regime's desperate tactics to derail the people’s revolution

United States: Documents reveal sexual exploitation and abuse in Korean War

Cuba: US targets cruise lines in massive compensation case

Chile announces plan to nationalise lithium industry

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