Analysis

Labor abandons religious discrimination reforms, blames Coalition

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.

Better training and more staff could alleviate depression in aged care

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.

Labor’s push to designate southern Lebanon a ‘declared area’ must be challenged

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.

Peter Dutton’s Palestinian problem

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.

Video: Labor's NDIS bill and its rotten response to the royal commission

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).

Australia should become a green good neighbour, not a ‘green superpower’

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.

AUKUS revamped to completely militarise Australia

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.

For a fighting union movement, it needs to break with Labor

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.