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Jim McIlroy reports on a week of actions against聽the proposed Kurri Kurri gas plant.

Actor Luke Hewitt in Every Brilliant Thing

Barry Healy reviews Every Brilliant Thing, a new play from Black Swan Theatre in Western Australia.

Seven thousand Transport Workers Union聽delivery drivers took 24-hour strike action on August 27 after talks between the union and Toll collapsed. Alex Salmon reports.

Urban organic agriculture in Havana

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened global food insecurity. An estimated 132 million more people have been tipped into acute malnutrition since the pandemic began, writes Barry Healy.

Jim McIlroy argues that the lesson of Saigon in 1975 and Kabul in 2021 is that imperialist invasion and domination lead to disaster.聽

We cannot trust capitalism to do what is necessary to avoid runaway climate change, argues Barry Sheppard.

Uncle Kevin Buzzacott,聽an elder of the Triabunna people in聽the Lake Eyre region of far northern South Australia, is campaigning for Santos and other gas companies to be prevented from destroying country.聽Renfrey Clarke reports.

The Socialist Alliance will field two long-term activists for the Victorian Senate on People and Planet before Profit platform, reports Chloe DS.

A political response is needed to win people away from those peddling conspiracies, or worse, in the growing so-called 鈥渇reedom鈥 rallies, argues Alex Bainbridge.

Afghan women in the 19070s

As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, Afghanistan's history is suppressed, writes John Pilger.

The US-NATO聽20-year war on Afghanistan unleashed terrible suffering, including a massive loss of life and the wholesale destruction of the country鈥檚聽civil infrastructure.聽Bevan Ramsden聽argues the Australia-US military alliance must be questioned.

The NSW government's policing-first approach to a complex health emergency has led to its own 鈥渟ocial harms鈥 including exacerbating聽existing prejudices held by police, writes聽Paul Gregoire.