No name

Socialist Alliance Merri-bek Councillor Sue Bolton, the guest on the latest Green Left Show, talks about how local government can support human rights such as taking a stand against Israel's genocide in Palestine.

Labor Senators, including the new minister for Indigenous Australians, voted against a motion requiring the Attorney-General to provide quarterly reports on deaths in custody, coronial inquests and incidents of self-harm in prisons. Kerry Smith reports.

Mass protest in Balochistan and inset picture of Farooq Tariq

Brazilian socialist Israel Dutra spoke to Pakistani socialist Farooq Tariq, president of the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP, People’s Rights Party), on the political situation in the region and the struggle against the far right.

Better Council Inc claimed to be about local policies, but its aim was to remove Greens from local government in several inner city locations because of their support for Palestine. Wendy Bacon reports.

podcast graphic

Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen talk to Federico Fuentes about the Venezuelan presidential election results and to Socialist Alliance Merri-bek councillor Sue Bolton about community campaigning ahead of the Victorian local government elections.

Opponents of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza are calling on the Gold Coast City Council to disclose its links with entities complicit in Israel’s violations of international law. Susan Price reports.

bombed building in Gaza and inset photo of children

Green Left’s Alex Salmon spoke to Tamer Shaaban, a 20-year-old engineering student trapped in Gaza, about how his family’s life was torn apart when Israel launched its genocidal war in October last year.

The latest statistics show that almost all the gains made from reaching an average of 40% renewable energy in electricity generation have been cancelled out by rising greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from transport. Peter Boyle reports.

save macquarie arts

Students at Macquarie University are opposing its plan to cut hundreds of jobs and ‘streamline’ arts courses, reports Isaac Nellist

Tens of thousands of construction unionists marched in Magan-djin/Brisbane on September 17 and in Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal Country/Sydney the next day, to demand their elected officials be reinstated and Labor’s new anti-union law be withdrawn.

Health workers who have returned from Gaza told a 150-strong public meeting and fundraiser in Boorloo/Perth about the critical shortages and dangers for patients and medical workers. They also said Labor must be held to account. Janet Parker reports.

Line of police

The federal agency responsible for overseeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has found that officers from the secretive Critical Response Unit violated the rights of anti-logging activists in the Fairy Creek watershed, in British Columbia. Jeff Shantz reports.