Analysis

Human Rights Watch has criticised the Western Australia government for the dramatic and alarming rise in the forcible removal of  Aboriginal children from their families. Paul Gregoire reports. 

Imagine a world where women were property, traded like livestock, silenced by veils and worked to death by the age of 30. Mary Merkenich looks at the context in which the 1917 Bolshevik revolution launched history’s most radical experiment for women’s emancipation. 

Isaac Nellist spoke to Karyn Brown, a Waterloo public housing tenant and campaigner who has been leading the campaign to defend and extend public housing. 

Islamophobia Register’s report has found a disturbing surge of in-person and online incidents of Islamophobia over 2023-2024 — more than double those from the previous year. Janet Parker spoke to Naser Alziyadat, one of the report’s authors. 

Both major parties have remained in full support of the AUKUS military pact, which locks Australia into the United States’ war plans. Pip Hinman reports. 

Jews Against the Occupation ’48 is calling on Labor to heed the latest United Nations report and not participate in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

Labor is defying a United Nations order to ensure the Wunna Nyiyaparli people of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region are able to decide how they develop their traditional land. Paul Gregoire reports.

Socialist Alliance national co-convenor Sam Wainwright explains why the Socialist Alliance is campaigning at this election to cut military spending in half on the latest Green Left Show.

A new report found that an income of $130,000 a year is required to avoid rental stress, but Labor has no plan to address extortionate rents, argues Isaac Nellist.

Socialist Alliance is calling for a 50% cut in military expenditure and to use the $28 billion to address the urgent housing, cost-of-living and climate crises, argues Peter Boyle.

Notwithstanding flooding rains and Cyclone Alfred delivering exceptional rains, inland and the Murray-Darling/Barka Rivers are struggling to survive a heating climate and the over-extraction of water. Tracey Carpenter reports.

Suzanne James and David Shoebridge discuss the Australian Greens latest initiative to progress the legalisation of recreational cannabis.