A bill seeking to give the ACT and Northern Territory rights to legislate their own laws, including on聽voluntary assisted dying,聽is scheduled to go to the Senate. Suzanne James reports.
Issue 1359
News
The New South Wales Supreme Court is hearing a challenge聽that aims to overturn聽NSW Police fines against protesters during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jim McIlroy reports.
Thousands of NSW Nurses and Midwives Association members went on strike for the third time this year to push for safe nurse-to-patient ratios and a pay rise. Jim McIlroy reports.
Marking a year since they reoccupied land near Adani鈥檚 Carmichael coal mine, the聽Wangan and Jagalingou people in Queensl补苍诲听held a Waddananggu. Coral Wynter 补苍诲听Steffi Leedham report.
New South Wales nurses and midwives took strike action across the state for mandated safe nurse-to-patient ratios and better pay and conditions. Kerry Smith reports.
Charles Sturt University will repay millions in unpaid wages to current and former casual staff, in a life-changing win for casual employees. Susan Price reports.
The NSW local government minister's support for Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council to demerge opens the way for other聽councils to deamalgamate. Pip Hinman 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Fisherfolk and environmentalists say knowingly damaging the oceans for the sake of outdated and unnecessary fossil fuel exploration is聽wrong.聽Darrin Saffin reports.
The Medical Board of Australia is trying to censor remote general practitioner and emergency doctor David Berger for his views on how to manage the pandemic.聽Robert Austin Henry reports.
Analysis
Under a new umbrella 鈥 Public Sector Alliance 鈥 government workers in Western Australia are聽determined to聽break WA Labor鈥檚 wages cap policy. Janet Parker reports.
While university managements are boasting聽huge surpluses, they are refusing to make their聽largely casualised聽staff permanent and award them pay rises. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Senator Jordon Steele-John has accused Labor of failing聽to draw on the expertise of聽the lived experience of disability advocates and fears that聽mistakes will聽be repeated.聽Nova Sobieralski and Zoe Wing report.
Labor鈥檚 review of Australia鈥檚 defence capability is likely to continue the same big spending on offensive weapons and make the Asia-Pacific an increasingly dangerous place, argues William Briggs.
Early childcare workers聽are going聽on strike for聽better pay 补苍诲听urgent action on staff shortages, reports Jacob Andrewartha.
Improving and expanding the聽existing electric vehicle network must not be overlooked in the discussion about solutions to the climate emergency, argues Andrew Chuter.
Julian Assange鈥檚 legal team are challenging the British聽court's view that it would not be an abuse of process to extradite him to聽the United States, on the basis聽that Assange is being prosecuted for his political opinions.聽Binoy Kampmark reports.
World
S茫o Paulo socialist councillor Luana Alves聽talks about the coming elections in Brazil.
No other British prime minister is as lionised to the point of deification as Winston Churchill. Rupen Savoulian looks behind the cult of personality.
Former Brazilian President Lu铆z In谩cio 鈥淟ula鈥 da Silva is now in the in the polls ahead of the first round of Brazil鈥檚 presidential election to be held on October 2, reports Vijay Prashad.
Ahead of Colombian President Gustavo Petro鈥檚 inauguration, US Republican Senator Ted Cruz railed about the 鈥渁cute dangers to American national security鈥 posed by leftist governments in Latin America, reports Ana Zorita.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an鈥檚 government is looking for a deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad鈥檚 regime to eliminate the Kurds in Rojava. Peter Boyle reports.
91自拍论坛's Alex Bainbridge speaks to Renfrey Clarke about former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his legacy.
Around 5000 people attended the radical left summer school of the France Insoumise (FI), held at the end of August at Valence in the South of France, reports John Mullen.
Floods have devastated Pakistan, affecting millions of people and incurring huge economic losses. Farooq Tariq provides a briefing on the disaster and an appeal for funds.
West Papuan human rights activists have condemned the killings of four West Papuans in the Pigapu-Logopon Village in the Mimika Regency on August 22, reports Susan Price.
The FBI raid on former United States President Donald Trump鈥檚 Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida has put the spotlight back on the nefarious Espionage Act, reports Barry Sheppard.
Ukrainian聽agricultural expert Mykhailo Amosov talks about the devastating impact of Russia's聽invasion聽on Ukraine鈥檚 agricultural sector, and the link between the war and the fight against climate change.
Enguerran Carrier聽talks about his documentary that聽focuses on a volunteer battalion comprised of leftists from Ukraine and Belarus who have taken up arms against the Russian invasion.
Culture
The Shadow of the Day is聽a study in miniature of the Italian Fascist era鈥檚 stifling atmosphere and the costs of personal survival. Barry Healy reviews.
Hans Baer reviews Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it.
Mat Ward looks back at August's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Unionists gathered to launch Sam Wallman's graphic novel, which uses "art as a tool of class struggle", reports Andrew Chuter.