Housing activists and those advocating for the homeless say that councils should rethink deploying private security officers because the evidence shows they are inflaming the already difficult situation. Jake Maison reports.
News
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Workers from the Health Services Union organised a snap action outside University Hospital Geelong to call for a fair pay rise amid growing concerns about job security. Tim Gooden reports.
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Socialist Alliance is contesting the November Victorian elections in the Northern Metropolitan region for the Legislative Council and in the lower house seats of Broadmeadows and Pascoe Vale. Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud reports.
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Victorian Australian Education Union members are mounting a campaign to reject an in-principal agreement, negotiated between the AEU leadership and the Labor government, because it undervalues the work they do. Norrian Rundle reports.
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London-based academic Penny Green, who visited Rohingya refugees forced to flee Myanmar to the Cox’s Bazaar camps in Bangladesh, and Rohingya refugee Mohammed Zuhar addressed a Refugee Action Collective forum. Chris Slee reports.
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On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss the solidarity shown with Gazans under siege and Sumud flotilla participants and the ongoing fight to save public housing from demolition.
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Extinction Rebellion SA organised a series of creative protests outside the Australian Energy Producers conference to protest the push for more fossil fuels in a climate emergency. Markela Panegyres reports.
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Housing activists are trying to stop demolition teams from starting to fence off public housing units at Waterloo public housing estate on the corner of Cope and McEvoy Streets, Waterloo. Andrew Chuter reports.
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Foreign minister Penny Wong joined the international condemnation of Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over a video of him abusing Global Sumud Flotilla activists, but still refuses to cut ties with Israel. Isaac Nellist reports.
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International Day Against LGBTIQ discrimination was marked for the first time in Blacktown, with a community democracy theme. Paula Sanchez reports.
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About 50 students and staff at the University of Sydney protested university management’s repression of those showing solidarity with Palestine. Chiara Reeves reports.
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The Tamil community and supporters gathered at the State Library in Naarm/Melbourne to commemorate the 17th Mullivaikkal Day, observed annually on May 18, reports Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud.
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The inaugural Hazara Culture Day, supported by many community organisations, drew thousands to the Fairfield Showgrounds. Paula Sanchez reports.
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On this episode of On The Streets we discuss rallies to mark 78 years of al Nakba (the Catastrophe) and upcoming actions to save Waterloo public housing.
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The Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group defended a NSW Court of Appeal ruling in the High Court that the climate change impacts of fossil fuel projects have to be taken into account. Kerry Smith reports.
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Israel intercepted 60 Global Sumud Flotilla ships, imprisoning 400 participants on May 19. Rachel Evans talks to Subhi Awad, a GSF organiser, about why these missions are important.
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A vigil for Isla Bell, who was murdered in 2024, was held at the State Library of Victoria. Darren Saffin reports.
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About 200 people stood up for Barrambin — Victoria Park — at a Yagara Magandjin Elders-led rally at the site in the inner-city. Jonathan Strauss reports.
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Members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) working for Brownes Dairy launched an 84-hour strike for fair wages and job security. Maz Misiewicz reports.
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Protests across Australia marked 78 years since Israeli forces unleashed its genocide, ethnically cleansing Palestinian villages in 1948. Kerry Smith reports.
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NSW Premier Chris Minns continues to defend his NSW Labor government’s anti-protest laws, despite the NSW Court of Appeal striking them down as unconstitutional. Pip Hinman reports.
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A secret government report said that while Port Kembla is the assessment’s preferred site for an East Coast nuclear submarine base, Muloobinba remains under consideration. Steve O’Brien reports.
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Labor conspicuously omitted plans to avert the climate emergency in its budget, however renewable energy projects are advancing nonetheless. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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The Socialist Alliance has condemned the United States Department of Justice’s decision to reopen a three-decades-old case against former Cuban president Raúl Castro and called on Labor to speak out against military action against the Caribbean nation.
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The detention and humiliation of Global Sumud Flotilla activists not only reveals Israel’s approach to Gaza, it raises questions about Australia’s response to an ally that is responsible for genocide, writes Shamikh Badra.
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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.
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Opposition leader Angus Taylor wants to make permanent residents who are not citizens ineligible for welfare payments and NDIS support. He also wants the number of migrants to be tied to housing construction. Jonathan Strauss looks at why.
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Graham Matthews argues that while it is important to go beyond the for-profit NDIS system, it is nevertheless wrong to call for the flawed scheme to be nationalised.
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Markela Panegyres spoke to Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a senior Googatha elder and anti-nuclear activist, who is leading a campaign against rocket and weapons testing on sacred Googatha Country.
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Shamikh Badra asks if “securitisation”, when a political or social issue becomes framed as an exceptional security matter, is being used to shut down freedom of speech over Israel's war on Gaza.
World
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Protests against Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz’s neoliberal government continue to intensify, reports Pablo Meriguet.
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The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, involving government representatives from 59 countries, was in Santa Marta, Colombia, reports Ben Radford.
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The recent hantavirus outbreak reminds us that global capitalism is engaged in an assault on nature that also poses an increasing threat to human populations, argues John Clarke.
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United States President Donald Trump is considering launching military action against Cuba, following decades of failed attempts by US imperialism to destabilise the island nation and destroy its socialist project, reports Malik Miah.
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The United States has launched fresh attacks on southern Iranian territory, raising concerns about the fate of the Pakistan-mediated peace talks, reports Abdul Rahman.
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New York City is set to build 200,000 new affordable and rent-stabilised homes and preserve another 200,000 over the next decade, reports Stephen Prager.
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Sarah Glynn examines two recent blows to democracy in the Kurdish region of the Middle East.
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In the second of our two-part interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to Elias Jaua — Chavista, socialist and former vice-president of Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez — about the response inside the country to the January 3 US military assault, the Nicolás Maduro government, the state of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and popular participation today.
Culture
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Transgender Marxism is a series of short essays written by 15 trans activists and scholars. In a time of rising transphobia and fascism, it is an important work, in spite of its shortcomings, writes Rachel Evans.
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Unruly WA, a multi-media exhibition, at the Kidogo Arthouse in Walyalup, brings together artists, photographers and other storytellers to “celebrate political dissent while it is still legal”. Cas Smith reports.
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Author Mark Whitaker was the first African American editor of Newsweek. Malik Miah reviews his 2025 book, The Afterlife of Malcolm X, where he sets out to explore Malcolm’s legacy and impact in the decades since his assassination nearly 60 years ago.
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After 40 years, The Pursuit of Happiness is being relaunched. Originally screened across the country and on the ABC, this feature film is about the ties that bind couples and nations. Kerry Smith reports.
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This year's Sydney Film Festival, running from June 3–14, features films about First Nations resistance, a Palestinian uprising and communities seeking justice, writes Ben Radford.
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Person to person, a panoramic video exhibit in the 2026 Sydney Biennale by artists Merilyn Fairskye and Michiel Dolk, shares the rich history of Woolloomooloo told through first-hand stories of local residents, writes Peter Boyle.