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Community Radio 3CR’s annual Radiothon is coming up, with a fundraising target of $275,000 by the end of June to keep the station operating, reports Stephanie.

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Transnational companies, finding an ally in United States President Donald Trump and his extractivist agenda, are pushing to mine the seafloor for valuable minerals, despite widespread concerns about the potential ecological and climate impacts, reports Ben Radford.

Climate activists protested outside the Department of Climate Change Energy the Environment and Water against Labor's decision to allow Woodside to expand its LNG plant. Paul Oboohov reports.

Pro-Palestinian activists protested 600 days of the ongoing, and Australian governments supported, genocide in Gaza at Martin Place, during the Vivid festival, on May 29. Photos by Zebedee Parkes.

Jews Against the Occupation ’48 was invited to be questioned by the Antisemitism in New South Wales inquiry on May 19. Judith Treanor describes how it went.

A Voice for Members, a rank-and-file ticket contesting the Community and Public Sector Union elections, organised a protest against Labor’s proposed job cuts. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

Labor’s decision to extend Woodside’s North West Shelf sends a clear signal to the gas industry that it will not let the concerns of scientists, Traditional Owners and ordinary working people stand in the way of corporate profits, argues Maz Misiewicz.

 

Climate protesters chanted “Yancoal, No way! End mining coal today!” outside the company’s annual general meeting at Darling Harbour. Jim McIlroy reports.

Workers at the Allied Pinnacle Altona, who produce baked goods for supermarkets such as Coles and Woolworths, took their third consecutive weekly strike action on May 28. Adam Bremner reports.

Protest albums from May 2025

Mat Ward looks back at May's political news and the best new music that related to it.

Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe has called on Labor to urgently implement the recommendations of the 1997 Bringing Them Home report, as the systemic removal and incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children continues. Kerry Smith reports.

Even as Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots offensive in Gaza unmasks global capitalism as the ruthless, racist and colonialist project that it is, Anthony Albanese still refuses to impose sanctions on the genocidal regime, write Sue Bolton and Jacob Andrewartha.