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.
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Jews Against the Occupation ’48 is calling on the Australian government to show some backbone and defend Palestinian human rights and international law.
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Recent reports suggest that the Western Australian Labor government is planning on pushing ahead with its net-zero plan but without emission reductions targets. Maz Misiewicz reports.
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Labor is boasting that its latest budget delivers the most significant transformation of the tax system in a quarter century. But, as Peter Boyle argues, this is more spin than reality.
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Graham Matthews, the Socialist Alliance spokesperson on disability rights, said the budget is a vicious attack on people living with disability.
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The Pauline Hanson’s One Nation’s victory in the Farrer by-election is an advance for racist, anti-immigrant and right-wing politics. Jacob Andrewartha and Sue Bolton argue that it can be countered.
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If developers have their way, the Bays West redevelopment will likely end up as a “Barangaroo 2.0” — a privatised waterfront enclave for wealthy residents and investors. Ben Radford reports.
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The rapid deployment of new data centres to power artificial intelligence systems, such as chatbots and generative AI, has enormous and possibly damaging implications for energy systems and the climate, argues Isaac Nellist.
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If there is a crisis in the NDIS, the problem was never participants. Kyle Montgomery argues that the waste came from provider fraud, price gouging and privatised inefficiency.
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Ali Keshtkar argues the Iran war has exposed the underlying contradictions of an economy already organised around property speculation, financialisation and energy profiteering.
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The massive investment in data centres to power rapid artificial intelligence growth has come under scrutiny for their enormous energy and water use. On this episode of the Green Left Show, Isaac Nellist talks to Ketan Joshi, Abigail Boyd and Sanaa Shah about the impact of data centres on climate and communities.
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Peter Boyle spoke to Graham Matthews, the Socialist Alliance spokesperson on disability rights, about the proposed cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme in the upcoming budget.