The Nannas talked about five promises MPs have “not yet kept”. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Knitting Nannas tell NSW MPs: ‘Do a lot better’

The Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends reminded politicians of their responsibilities to protect the environment, phase out coal and generally telling them to “do a lot better”. Jim McIlroy reports.

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The NT wait list for social housing in its urban centres ranges from six to 10 years long. Yet the government’s housing strategy makes no quantitative commitment in the short to medium term to construct new social housing dwellings. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

NT gov’t releases investor-focused housing strategy

The Greens said while the NT has some of the worst protections for renters in Australia, the Country Liberal Party is doing nothing to address the problem. Stephen W Enciso reports.

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A voluntary assisted dying (VAD) bill has finally been re- introduced to Northern Territory (NT) parliament, after years of campaigning. But the Country Liberal Party (CLP) is intent on making it unnecessarily restrictive. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Lia Finocchiaro criticised over the NT’s obstructive VAD bill

A voluntary assisted dying bill has finally been re-introduced to Northern Territory parliament, after years of campaigning. But as Suzanne James reports, the Country Liberal Party is intent on making...

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Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) construction and maintenance members, employed by United Group Limited (UGL) at the Viva Viva Oil Refinery who took protected strike action to secure a new agreement have won most of their demands. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Viva oil refinery workers win gains in new agreement

Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union construction and maintenance members, employed by United Group Limited at the Viva Viva Oil Refinery have won a new agreement. Tim Gooden reports.

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National protests on August condemned Labor plans to cut $38 billion from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and reduce all participants’ funding. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

National protests tell Labor not to cut NDIS

National protests on August condemned Labor plans to cut $38 billion from the National Disability Insurance Scheme and reduce all participants’ funding. Renfrey Clarke reports.

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On this episode we discuss protests outside Labor's national conference in Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, health workers opposing AHPRA's decision to silence criticism of Israel's genocide and solidarity rallies with the Indian youth movement. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

In a break from the usual loud protests, Friends of Palestine WA asked people to walk silently, wearing black clothing or a black armband, and holding placards made up with the images of individual children killed by Israel. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Silent march for Palestine: ‘Don’t stop talking about the dead children’

In a break from the usual loud protests, more than 200 people joined a silent protest to demand an end to the genocide of children in Gaza. Cas Smith reports.

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The bill weakens safeguards for children charged with a crime in the NT. It allows a child to be detained in a police watch house for up to 48 hours after they have been charged if it is “not reasonably practicable” to take them to a detention centre. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

New NT CLP law can detain 10-year-olds for 48 hours

The Country Liberal Party has passed a new law allowing police to detain a child in a watch house for up to 48 hours if it is “not reasonably practicable” to take them to a detention centre. Stephen W...

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Two large protests, as well as a number of smaller actions, demanding that AUKUS be scrapped and communities and climate action be funded greeted delegates outside the Labor’s national conference over July 23-25. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Labor delegates told to scrap AUKUS, fund communities

Delegates to Labor’s national conference were greeted by two large protests, as well as a number of smaller actions, demanding that AUKUS be scrapped and communities and climate action be funded. Mark...

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The Truth and Justice tour is a statewide community initiative to foster discussions about truth-telling and how to achieve justice for First Nations communities. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Lidia Thorpe begins her Truth and Justice march across Victoria

Djab Wurrung Gunnai Gundjitmara woman and independent Senator Lidia Thorpe kicked off a statewide Truth and Justice tour to foster discussions about truth-telling and achieving justice for First Natio...

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If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including Chilean-American rapper DANI CORNEJO, whose new album explores his Indigenous roots www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #protestsongs2026

Rallies are being held across the country on August 1 to oppose Labor's plans to cut $38 billion from the NDIS, reduce all participants' funding by 50% for social and community participation and a further 10% for capacity building. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Join the rallies to protect the NDIS

Join the rallies across the country to protect the NDIS from Labor's cuts. Isaac Nellist reports.

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If you're looking for good protest music, read this - including JOBI RICCIO, who was asked about the song "Wildfire Season" on her new album as fires blazed worldwide www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #climate #wildfires #climatechange #climateemergency #bushfires

If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including long-time Rising Tide activist STEEL CITY SUE, whose meticulous new album slams PFAS pollution in her community, coal and climate change www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #climate #PFAS

If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including the sublime, mesmerising debut album from COOEE, led by Gunai woman Kirli Saunders www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #AboriginalAustralia

If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including the new album from Filipino/Murrawarri rapper DOBBY, which somehow manages to go one better than his previous, ARIA-award-winning LP www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #AboriginalAustralia

If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including the first album in seven years from THE KING BLUES, which mocks far-right politician Nigel Farage www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #protestsongs2026

If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including HAWXX, whose album slams Britain's outlawing of Palestine Action, which resulted in their friend being jailed www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #protestsongs2026 #freepalestine #palestine

If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including the new album from @davidrovics.bsky.social which skewers the war on Iran as the carnage continues... www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #protestsongs2026

If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including THE ROLLING STONES, whose new album slams Elon Musk and America under Donald Trump www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #protestsongs2026

If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including the new LP from @missmargoprice.bsky.social, whose cover of "Oval Room", originally written about Ronald Reagan, was named one of Rolling Stone's top 25 anti-Trump songs www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic

If you're looking for good protest music, read this, including... @missmargoprice.bsky.social THE ROLLING STONES @davidrovics.bsky.social HAWXX THE KING BLUES DOBBY COOEE STEEL CITY SUE JOBI RICCIO DANI CORNEJO www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/cu... #protestsongs #protestmusic #protestsongs2026

The picket, organised by the Maritime Union Australia, was called to add pressure to DP World which is refusing to accept a wage rise as part of the enterprise bargaining negotiations. Striking security guards, members of the MUA, receive $28.80 an hour. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

MUA demands DP World pays its security guards better

Almost one hundred workers and community activists joined a three-hour picket outside the Dubai-based logistics and port company DP World, at Port Botany, for better pay and conditions for security gu...

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Up to 30,000 Australian Education Union (AEU) teachers and Education Support staff stopped work on July 23 to demand the Victorian Labor government make a better pay and conditions offer. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Victorian education workers continue to demand better pay, conditions

With only 48 hours’ notice, tens of thousands of teachers and Education Support staff stopped work again to demand the Victorian Labor government make a better pay and conditions offer. Mary Merkenich...

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Organised by Hume for Humanity and Socialist Alliance Merri-bek Councillor Sue Bolton, the rally successfully brought diverse communities together to show that they reject the racist scapegoating of First Nations people, migrants and Muslims. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Community leaders join anti-racism rally in Broadmeadows

More than 150 people turned out to support a community-initiated anti-racism rally in Broadmeadows, where community speakers were invited to speak out how to defeat One Nation. Jacob Andrewartha repor...

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The CPSU is supporting a former ATO call centre worker who took his case to the FWC, claiming that as a labour hire employee he was forced to work for 40% less pay and under worse conditions than the ATO’s directly employed staff. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

CPSU takes on labour hire firms underpaying outsourced ATO workers

The Community and Public Sector Union is pursuing a case in the Fair Work Commission against labour hire companies undermining workers’ rights in the Australian Tax Office. Jim McIlroy reports.

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“As healthcare workers, we could not remain silent about Gaza and Palestine,” Mark Murphy, an activist with Nurses and Midwives for Palestine, told the protesters. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

Health workers demand regulator stop silencing them on Palestine

Hundreds protested outside the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency offices to condemn its decision to implement the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism...

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Hot on the heels of the announcement of a 1 gigawatt gas-powered data centre in central Northern Territory, a second gigawatt scale data centre has been proposed for outside Garramilla/Darwin, that would overwhelm the NTs digital & energy infrastructure. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1459/ne...

NT fossil fuel drillers rebrand as tech company to push gas

Gas company Beetaloo Energy has rebranded as Beetaloo Digital as part of an attempt to use data centre investment to drive more fossil fuel energy expansion. Justin Tutty reports.

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Tens of thousands of youth and student protesters were attacked by police using tear gas and batons in India’s capital, New Delhi, on July 20, as they marched towards parliament to demand that Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resign. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1458/wo...

India: Tens of thousands of students demand BJP education minister step down amid police violence

Tens of thousands of protesters were attacked by police using tear gas and batons in New Delhi as they marched to parliament to demand the resignation of the education minister. Isaac Nellist reports.

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The significance of this round of protests is that repression has failed to produce demobilisation. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1458/wo...

Indonesia: Latest youth protests reveal failures of Prabowo’s ‘crony’ regime

Peter Boyle speaks to Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana from Perserikatan Sosialis (Socialist Union, PS), a left group in Indonesia, about the latest round of youth-led protests that kicked off in June...

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