Issue 1358

News

The NT government is committed to keep incarcerating children in Don Dale Youth Detention Centre until at least 鈥渓ate 2023鈥, reports聽Stephen W Enciso.

Anti-war and peace protesters from Stop AUKUS-WA protested the Indian Ocean Defence and Security Conference. Kerry Smith reports.

Twenty three Victorian councils have already, or are intending to, privatise their aged-care service since the聽federal government changed its funding model. Kerry Smith reports.

Gomeroi Elders are planning a聽day of music and cultural activities to celebrate the beauty of the Pilliga Forest and build the resistance to Santos' proposed gas drilling.听David Killingly reports.

The NSW government is pushing the rail union to compromise on safety as well as to agree to a cut in wages. Jim McIlroy reports.

Public housing residents and supporters protested the proposed demolition of a Waterloo public housing estate. Rachel Evans reports.

In a victory for the environment and common sense, the聽Dendrobium mine expansion will not go ahead. Jim McIlroy and Alex Bainbridge report.

Socialist Alliance candidates running in the Victorian elections say that solutions exist for the cost-of-living pressures. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

Geelong Housing Action Group聽co-convenor Angela Carr says there is not enough聽housing for those who desperately need it. Chris Cherry reports.

Exercise Pitch Black聽further entrenches Australia with the United States' war drive, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network says. Kerry Smith reports.

Analysis

The Anthony Albanese Labor government聽is heading in the wrong direction by opening up new fossil fuel exploration, writes聽Samantha Hepburn.

The Scott Morrison聽multiple-portfolio saga is just the tip of the聽credibility crisis plaguing politics.听Sam Wainwright argues we need to look a lot further than聽the restoration of聽Westminster conventions.

Fossil fuel billionaires' record profits need to be seized as a first step in democratising the energy sector and transitioning to a jobs-rich clean energy future,聽writes聽Alex Bainbridge.

David Shoebridge聽talks about a federal ICAC, the Restoration of Territory Rights Bill, the failure to implement聽the findings of the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody聽and the challenges of work-life balance.

While the energy sector remains in private hands, it will resist any transition away from fossil fuels. Greens MLC Abigail Boyd discusses聽the聽urgent need to take it back into public hands.

A lot more can be done for homeless people in Australia, argues聽骋别谤谤测听骋别辞谤驳补迟辞蝉, including building more聽public housing and prioritising聽supports for the homeless.

Australia seems to be聽helping Fiji set up a defence facility in Lami, although Canberra is keen to eschew the military intent. Binoy Kampmark reports.

In the lead-up to the federal Jobs Summit, it is worth remembering that Australia is carrying a burgeoning precariat of unemployed and underemployed people, writes聽Malcolm King.

The Women鈥檚 Abortion Action Campaign聽was launched in 1972. Christine Smith discusses its origins and聽approach, and the聽need to be vigilant about reproductive health.

What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is why the vast majority of people totally abhor nuclear weapons and want to see them decommissioned, argues聽Gem Romuld.

Greens Senator David Shoebridge and Socialist Alliance member William Briggs discuss Australia鈥檚 鈥渄efence鈥澛on the 91自拍论坛 Show.

World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed two top government officials聽for allegedly 鈥渢urning a blind eye鈥 to 鈥渢raitors鈥 in their agencies, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.听

Zaporizhia nuclear power plant

The more than 10,000 workers at the Zaporizhzhia聽Nuclear Power Plant聽have issued an urgent and impassioned plea for global support, reports Federico Fuentes.

Protest in Argentina

Thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina on August 18 to protest rising living costs and demand the government take action to improve material conditions, reports Ana Zorita.

Welder

Almost a month after Ukraine鈥檚 parliament adopted two anti-worker bills, President Volodymyr Zelensky finally ratified Draft Law 5371, removing union rights for most of the country鈥檚 workers, reports Federico Fuentes.

Colombia鈥檚 new government, led by President Gustavo Petro, has vowed to tackle violence and illegal mining, enact drug reforms and normalise relations with Cuba and Venezuela. Ian Ellis-Jones reports.

The water problems Chile faces are historically embedded in a neoliberal framework that has remained tilted in favour of the ruling class, writes聽Yanis Iqbal.

Najib Razak

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was finally sent to jail on August 23, more than two years after he was convicted of corruption, reports Peter Boyle.

Under capitalism, wars are fought to gain access to markets, resources and to harness the working class in its service. The suffering of the Ukrainian people attests to this, writes William Briggs.

Zinar Bozkurt

A 26-year-old Kurdish refugee in Sweden is at risk of being deported to Turkey as a result of an agreement signed between Ankara, Stockholm and Helsinki for the Nordic expansion of NATO, reports Medya News.

Lithium mine

The people of Potos铆 in Bolivia, like the people of Tierra Amarilla in Chile, want to imagine a different kind of extraction: one that does not destroy the Earth, write聽Vijay Prashad and Taroa Z煤帽iga Silva.

Culture

Climate protest

Hans Baer reviews Climate Change as Class War and recommends ecosocialists, ecoanarchists and degrowth proponents alike should grapple with it, as it takes the notion of class struggle seriously.