On this episode of On The Streets we discuss the student walk-outs against One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's racism and bigotry across the country.
News
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More than 150 people joined a community-initiated anti-racism rally in Dandenong, where speakers with lived experience addressed the dangerous policy failures of both major parties. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Candidates for Lutruwita Socialist Alliance are running in three local government areas in the upcoming Lutruwita/Tasmania council elections. Chris Jenkins and Pip Hinman report.
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More than 60 members and supporters of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance gathered amid South Australia’s dramatic Flinders Ranges to discuss plans to resist corporate plundering and nuclear waste dumping on their Country. Renfrey Clarke reports.
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The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption investigating alleged illegal donations to the NSW Liberal Party has been told of the methods of a conservative Christian faction within its ranks. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Disabled people and advocates condemned the final report of the parliamentary inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment for its recommendation that the controversial bill be passed. Graham Matthews reports.
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Hot on the heels of the successful student strike against Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, community organisations will rally in Dandenong to migrants are welcome and racism is not. Kerry Smith reports.
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Teachers and School Staff for Palestine have launched a boycott campaign against the Department of Education’s new Social Cohesion Education Hub over its denial of the genocide in Gaza. Isaac Nellist reports.
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A Refugee Action Collective forum discussed how to push back against politicians and the media’s scapegoating of refugees for the cost-of-living and housing crises. Chris Slee reports.
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Thousands of high school and university students joined protests across the country opposing the racism and bigotry of Pauline Hanson and One Nation. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Thousands of high school and university students joined protests across the country opposing the racism and bigotry of Pauline Hanson and One Nation. Isaac Nellist reports.
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On this episode of On The Streets we discuss protests against an AI data centre proposal, against Glencore’s Hunter Valley Operations extension and a speak-out for homelessness week.
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The NSW Teachers Federation held a rally outside Port Kembla Public School to support the campaign against AUKUS. Melanie Barnes reports.
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Thousands of allied health professionals working in Victoria’s public hospitals took part in a 24-hour strike demanding better pay and working conditions. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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A snap rally drew several hundred opponents of the Environmental Protection Authority’s recent decision to renew licences for 16 salmon farms on the Tasman Peninsula for up to two years. Philip Bohle reports.
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Former politicians and defence personnel, trade unionists and anti-war activists all argued against AUKUS at a public inquiry organised by the crowd-funded Australian Peace and Security Forum. Not one person argued it should be supported. Pip Hinman reports.
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Hundreds of people called for a moratorium on the construction of data centres at a protest called by the Borderlands Cooperative and Citizens of Tottenham. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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NSW Police formally withdrew charges against 125 protesters from Rising Tide’s 2024 People’s Blockade. Jim McIlroy reports that activists say they have been “vindicated” for having taken one of the largest civil disobedience protests at Newcastle port
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More than 100 people rallied in Martin Place to say “No” to Glencore’s bid to expand its coal mines in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. Jim McIlroy reports.
Analysis
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Nine-year-old Mira Hamad, living in Gaza, witnessed a bomb destroy her next-door neighbour. She now lives with the trauma. Jude Alexander spoke to her, her father and NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge about the bomb and Australia’s connection to Israel’s computerised slaughter.
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Australian Defence Force whistleblower David McBride was released on parole for leaking classified documents about war crimes in Afghanistan to the ABC which revealed a culture of cover-up in the field. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Abby Martin joins the Green Left Show to speak about the US military’s climate record.
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Students have demonstrated moral leadership in this country by walking out of class to reject racism and One Nation’s destructive vision for the future. As Peter Boyle writes, Gen Z’s overwhelming rejection of One Nation needs to be backed up by the trade unions.
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Even in this wealthy country, where welfare remains at poverty-level, we face the prospect of mass unemployment as artificial intelligence and other new technologies replace jobs. Peter Boyle argues that as capitalism takes us deeper into crisis, we need to build solidarity to resist the toxic billionaire class.
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Izzy from Fight the Crisis, activists organising for a better deal inside the Australian Education Union, joined Green Left Radio to discuss Victorian Labor’s poor offer to teachers.
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While home affairs minister Tony Burke’s expected announcement of new anti-immigration measures has been postponed, migrant workers, refugees and international students have already been hit by big rises in discriminatory visa fees. Peter Boyle reports.
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Sue Bolton writes that new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is using a bill to close down the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, which has a good record on organising workers to win real gains and is a political threat to his base in the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association.
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Wollongong Against War and Nukes has joined with many others to oppose plans to turn Port Kembla into a military town. Melanie Barnes canvasses the arguments about why AUKUS will make Port Kembla and the region less safe.
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NSW Labor is set to introduce a bill to give NSW Police the power to require people to provide access to their digital devices during more routine arrests. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Socialist Alliance opposes the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence data centres being pushed by the Victorian Labor government, as they have no social license and are being driven by corporate greed.
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Despite the Gaza Holocaust continuing, the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is being conducted according to the Zionist playbook. It is depressing to watch, but as Jepke Goudsmit writes, there are moments to savour.
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Universities are using the Universities Australia definition of antisemitism, which conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism, to crack down on students who protest the genocide in Gaza. Sarah Bloom reports.
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Bob’s life principles were based on solidarity, opposition to oppression and exploitation and support for working-class struggles, recalls Sue Bolton.
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Sabrina Fernandes is a political economist and ecosocialist activist based in Brazil. She joined Federico Fuentes on the latest episode of the Green Left Show to discuss the need for an ecosocialist future, and how tackling the climate crisis requires a radical transformation of society.
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Peter Gartside, from Borderlands Cooperative, spoke to Green Left Radio about the protests against data centre expansion in the western suburbs.
World
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Following ongoing protests by students in India’s Jharkhand state, the state government was forced to cancel the corrupted state public service graduate recruitment exam and all recruitment tests conducted by outsourced agency TDPL in the past 12 years, reports Susan Price.
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Protests across West Papua marked 64 years since a United States-brokered deal between the Netherlands and Indonesia robbed West Papuans of their right to self determination, reports Susan Price.
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Colombia’s newly inaugurated president, Abelardo De la Espriella, began his term by facing the country’s worst earthquake in decades, signing controversial diplomatic agreements, and launching his “zero peace” plan against armed groups, reports BreakThrough News.
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United States President Donald Trump’s government overturned the temporary protected status (TPS) of 350,000 Haitians living in the US, following a June 25 Supreme Court decision to greenlight the administration's actions. Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard explain the history behind this move.
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Brazilian political economist and ecosocialist Sabrina Fernandes will be a keynote speaker at Ecosocialism 2026, in Magan-djin/Brisbane over September 11–13. Ahead of her visit to Australia, Fernandes spoke with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the importance of ecosocialist ideas in the fight for a better world.
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The long-anticipated framework law for the dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party was brought before Turkish parliament. But it raises more questions than answers, argues Sarah Glynn.
Culture
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While mass rallies and marches are often the go-to approach for activists, there has always been scope for creative activity to play a part in shaping how wider society thinks about an issue, writes Cas Smith.
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Here Where We Live is Our Country is a long-awaited contribution to the sparse field of knowledge about the Jewish Labor Bund, a group that played a key role in late 19th and early 20th century Marxist history. Cas Smith reviews.
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An event and exhibition aiming to draw concrete lessons from the struggle against Indonesia’s New Order military regime, highlighting the contributions of left and pro-democracy movements, will take place in Jakarta this month. Peter Boyle speaks to Esty Pratiwi Lubarman, one of the event’s organisers.