We've had decades of sanitising radical progressive action in Australia, to make successes seem as if they were just the sensible position.

There's an emerging new world order – China, Russia, Indonesia, India and Brazil – and Australia is not even part of the conversation.

The ABC has systematically tried to cover up the destruction and conquest of Palestine, and now the courts have proven it.

America and Israel are rolling out a rerun of old war propaganda, and it's embarrassing. Your media and government are again lying to you.

The hairs Albanese is splitting are on the heads of murdered Palestinians. Australia is contributing to Israel's genocide of Palestine.

Maybe the first time in his political career, Peter Dutton is being tested. And so far he doesn’t seem to be passing.

How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.

In the case of Antoinette Lattouf vs the ABC, the national broadcaster is airing its institutional bias to the world. It's a strange choice.

Amid political pressure, Creative Australia says deselecting the Lebanese-born artist will avoid ‘divisive debate’

How many Australians have been fired now for opposing genocide in Palestine? These high profile cases are just the iceberg.

It is now clear that Peter Dutton has no genuine interest in recognising Australia’s Indigenous heritage, or respecting its significance as the basis of our multicultural, multi-religious society. Nor...

The party must return to its progressive roots. A new economy is needed with new rules and new roles As the shock of Donald Trump’s victory sinks in, pundits and politicians are mulling what it means for the future of the US and global politics. Understanding why such a divisive, unqualified figure won again is crucial for the Democrats. Did they go too far left and lose the moderate Americans who make up a majority? Or did centrist neoliberalism – pursued by Democratic presidents since Bill Clinton – fail to deliver, thus creating a demand for change? To me, the answer is clear: 40 years of neoliberalism have left the US with unprecedented inequality, stagnation in the middle of the income spectrum (and worse for those below), and declining average life expectancy (highlighted by mounting “deaths of despair”). The American Dream is being killed, and although President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris distanced themselves from neoliberalism with their embrace of industrial policies, as representatives of the mainstream establishment, they remained associated with its legacy. Continue reading...

Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show An estimated 140 women and girls across the world die at the hands of their partner or family member every day, according to new global estimates on femicide by the UN. The report by UN Women found 85,000 women and girls were killed intentionally by men in 2023, with 60% (51,100) of these deaths committed by someone close to the victim. The organisation said its figures showed that, globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men. Continue reading...

Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik