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Climate activist Richard Boult was found not guilty of all charges brought by NSW Police for stepping onto a road during a climate protest last June. David Killingly reports.

The closure of the traditional opportunity shop means the losers are people who can least afford it, argues Darren Saffin.

A forum hosted by Green Left  highlighted ongoing struggles by LGBTIQ radical activists in a highly corporatised Sydney World Pride.

A two-year investigation by Hindenbug Research found evidence that Indian conglomerate Adani Group had engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over decades. Binoy Kampmark reports.

The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture has again had to pull out of a planned inspection after NSW and Queensland refused it access to facilities. Paul Gregoire reports.

Al Aqsa

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be remembered as the reckless politician who gave Itamar Ben-Gvir the green light to cause death and destruction, the scale of which has never been seen before, writes Miko Peled.

Activist Stephen Langford has been banned from the Sydney CBD after placing an A4 sheet, with blue tack, quoting Governor Lachlan Macquarie onto his statue in Hyde Park. Kerry Smith reports.

Chinese balloon

What began as an overblown diplomatic response by Washington to a Chinese surveillance balloon that drifted across the continental United States, before being shot down over the Atlantic Ocean, has morphed into a major confrontation, writes Barry Sheppard.

Elite soldiers in the Australian army are still asked to participate in a “Conduct After Capture” course, which uses torture, sexual assault and dehumanisation techniques, writes Damien de Pyle.

The arms manufacturers are salivating that Australia’s military policy is finally moving in the right direction. Binony Kampmark reports on Deputy PM Richard Marles' enthusiasm.

Housing has become a significant election issue as rents skyrocket and tenants can be thrown out of their homes at the whim of a landlord. Jim McIlroy report.

China Mieville A Spectre Haunting

Bill Nevins reviews China Miéville’s very readable book, A Spectre Haunting, about the concept of alternative world-creation in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto.