In the previous piece, “When everyone else is walking away from Washington, why do Australians still embrace AUKUS?” three things were argued: Australian opinion hasn’t moved the way Canadian and Euro...

This is bad.

Since it was announced by then Prime Minister Morrison in September 2021, the AUKUS pact has faced opposition from Australian progressive forces, from the ALP’s left and from further left again.

On September 7, One Nation announced its formal proposal to allow workers to access some of their super.

On 27 August, the Australian Financial Review ran an article arguing that Australia’s industrial relations system needs to return to a framework closer to the heyday under Howard and Reith.

On August 23, One Nation MP David Farley appeared on the ABC’s Insiders. Pressed by David Speers on the party’s immigration numbers, Farley laid out the mechanism behind One Nation’s promised cut to n...

Over the past week there have been significant public attacks on Australia’s compulsory superannuation system by both One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg, shadow minister...

On 29 July 2026, independent MP Allegra Spender published an article in the Australian Financial Review outlining her concerns about how Australia's industrial relations system, particularly the ALP's...

In late June, the NPA-l’Anticapitaliste (NPA standing for Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, New Anticapitalist Party; the party is known as NPA-A) announced it would not run its own candidate in France’s...

A Guardian piece from mid-July on why the Australian Greens aren’t riding One Nation’s polling surge the way the Green Party of England and Wales has ridden Labour’s collapse leans heavily on Zack Pol...

Pauline Hanson told Brisbane’s 4BC radio on July 21 that domestic violence is “wrong, but it’s also a two-way street,” attributed it to the “pressures of living,” and said “women can lose their cool a...

Louise Adler’s argument is straightforward and correct.

Since the announcement of Labor’s changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing in the May budget, criticism has been sustained and heated, and it has come from fund managers, property investors, ...

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Part II of a resource for honest conversations about One Nation

Part I of a resource for honest conversations about One Nation

On 20 June, the Stop the War Coalition is hosting a major International Conference Against War in London. Back in January, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign wrote to Lindsey German, Convenor of StW, stressing that any credible discussion on the war must include those directly affected by Russia’s unprovoked invasion — particularly Ukrainian trade unionists and democratic left organisations. We offered to help arrange such participation.

Since the arrival of the “Teal” independents at the 2022 election, much attention has been given to whether they are really independents at all, or a party in all but name.

The current issue of Marxist Left Review (MLR), Socialist Alternative’s theoretical journal and the space where Australia’s largest far-left organisation presents its most considered public intellectu...

There is growing public pressure for Australia to introduce a gas export tax, to capture more revenue from the extraction of a resource that belongs to the Australian people.

On May 15 2026, the full bench of the Federal Court upheld the 2024 decision in Tickle v Giggle, finding that the exclusion of a trans woman from a female-only social networking app constituted direct...

As part of his May 13 Budget reply speech, Liberal leader Angus Taylor announced a new policy that would restrict access to Australian social security payments to Australian citizens, a move that he claimed would save billions.

On May 9, One Nation swept to victory in the Farrer byelection, consigning the incumbent Liberal Party to a humiliating defeat in a seat the Coalition had held since its foundation almost 80 years ago...

On April 28 and April 29, Andrew Brown published two articles on Michael West Media exploring the role of the pro-Israel lobby in Australian politics.

What the Green Institute could be - Part IV of IV

What the Green Institute could be - Part III of IV

Building the breakdown, how the right attacks social cohesion while claiming to defend it, and what that project protects

Building the breakdown, how the right attacks social cohesion while claiming to defend it, and what that project protects

On 22 April 2026, the Albanese government announced changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme that will dramatically reduce expenditure through an active narrowing of access.

What the Green Institute could be - Part II of IV

What the Green Institute could be - Part I of IV

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The labour aristocracy thesis has generated sustained criticism from Marxists and non-Marxists alike.

The rapid surge in support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has forced a question the Australian left has consistently avoided answering honestly: why do sections of the working class support a politic...

Social cohesion has become one of the most contested terms in Australian political discourse.

Trump’s decision, encouraged by Netanyahu and Republican hawks, to attack Iran has triggered both an economic crisis and a sharp intensification of the pressures on historic US alliances, including th...

In the wake of One Nation’s significant growth in primary votes in the South Australian state election, a growth that appears to be holding in national polling and in other states, a discussion has em...

Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, working people have faced the challenge of significant inflation.

"What has been promised to Ukraine must reach Ukraine" — Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen, announcing that Helsinki will audit US compliance with contracts under which European NATO members…

The Albanese government has made super fairer. It's still not enough