Analysis

In a time of genocide and more wars on the horizon, you should come along to disrupt the weapons industry convention at the Melbourne Convention Centre between September 8–14, writes Elizabeth Bantas.

Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John

WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John has slammed Labor’s failure to act on the disability royal commission’s key recommendations, saying the party has failed the disability community. Suzanne James reports.

Labor’s new laws appointing an administrator with absolute dictatorial powers to run every branch of the Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union is the most serious attack on a union in living memory, argues Sam Wainwright.

 

Despite claims of corruption and so-called “illegality” in the Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), Labor's new laws is aimed at nobbling one of Australia's most militant unions that has managed to protect the health and safety of workers in the very dangerous construction industry.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may be ducking questions on Labor’s promise to reform religious discrimination provisions, but the truth is that he has abandoned another pre-election promise. Paul Gregoire reports.

Moving into an aged care residence is often a very sudden trauma for elderly people, but there are ways to alleviate that stress, argues Jack Williams.

Australia's arbitrary labelling of some global conflicts and not others as “terrorist-controlled zones” is more than an inconvenience to family holiday plans. Dal Ouba argues that it must be challenged.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has spent much of the past week dog whistling about the alleged security threat posed by Palestinians trying to flee Gaza. But Labor has rejected two thirds of all applicants. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Suzanne James talks to WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John about the Albanese government’s betrayal of the disability community by ignoring the bulk of the royal commission’s recommendations while defunding the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

Labor has launched its push to become a renewable energy “superpower”. But, as Peter Boyle argues, any imagining of a green future needs to break imperial and colonialist power relations with the Global South.

The AUSMIN talks between the US and Australia provided another occasion for propaganda repeating the lie that the US military's expansion into South East Asia and Australia will lead to greater security. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Jonathan Strauss argues that a fighting, democratic union movement would entail members and delegates’ meetings directing industrial action and political campaigns, opposing state intervention and not subordinating union strategy to Labor’s pro-capitalist project.