Binoy Kampmark writes that even the conservative think tank Strategic Analysis Australia is questioning the AUKUS deal. Meanwhile, Australia is being asked by the United States to do more for its “defence”.
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Nadia Refaei, co-president of Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network, told the recent national day of protest for Palestine that Labor’s decision to recognise Palestine is an an empty gesture, offering the appearance of progress without changing material conditions.
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An all-expenses-paid pro-Israel summit marketed to local government office bearers raises concerns about ethics and politics in their local communities. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon report.
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Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist from Bethlehem University, was a keynote speaker at a forum on the Palestine ecocide. Jim McIlroy reports.
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More than 200,000 people took the streets across the country in a national day of protest to demand Labor sanction Israel and stop the two-way arms trade.
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Justice for Palestine has moved its planned protest to Queens Park, Magan-djin/Brisbane, in response to an anti-democratic move by Queensland police. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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The Communication Workers Union led a rally of independent contractors outside Service Stream’s office in Naarm/Melbourne, protesting the company’s proposed 20–30% rate cuts for subcontractors. Kalindi Salvo Sampson reports.
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Unions NSW organised a “Unions for Peace” rally at Town Hall Square on Gadigal Country/Sydney, the first such action it has organised since Israel ramped up its genocide in Gaza in October 2023. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Indigenous Wampís leader Galois Flores Pizango spoke to 91̳’s Ben Radford about the struggle to defend territory and advance a vision of sustainable Indigenous development.
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The Australian Council of Trade Unions has urged a national move towards a four-day workweek, in a proposal put to the federal Labor government’s Economic Reform Roundtable. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Tasmanian unions’ bargaining power has dramatically weakened since the 1970s, writes Solomon Doyle, because of the changing nature of traditionally union-strong industries and the impact of anti-worker laws.
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Judith Treanor, on behalf of Jews Against the Occupation ’48, asked at the Palestine Action Group’s rally: how it is possible that 22 months into a livestreamed genocide, the world is still debating whether it is even happening?