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EVENT: Artificial Intelligence and Work in a Remade World

7 Aug 2026

Wednesday, 12th August; 6pm for a 6:30pm start; Trades Hall; Tickets are $10*

The High Cost of the Gaslight Industry

7 Aug 2026

The fossil fuel industry has spent decades teaching us where to look. It fixes our gaze on their profits, dressed up as our cost of living, and on a panic at the petrol bowser, while the real cost is paid somewhere much quieter: in our children’s lungs, one kitchen at a time.

Turbo-charged Turmoil: An Interview with Clinton Fernandes

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Clinton Fernandes, Joe McLaren

10 Jul 2026

A 'rupture' means richer countries – Canada, Western Europe, Japan – being treated like the poorer ones.

The end of Australia’s last free river?

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Martin Pritchard

11 Jun 2026

The Martuwarra is still alive: culturally, ecologically and politically, as a site of resistance to the idea that every river must submit to extraction. In an age of climate instability, protecting a free-flowing river is a test of whether we can act with restraint, learn from past damage and share power with those who know a river is more than water moving downhill

Viva Palestino: Israel’s Genocidal War Denounced on the Football Pitch

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Antonio Castillo

15 May 2026

Despite Palestine and Chile being over 13,000 kilometres apart, Palestino FC remains vital to the identity of those behind Israel’s extensive walls, thus embodying a unique and peaceful form of resistance.

Predatory politics: From open markets to global chaos

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Sofia Skobeleva (Sid Akhmed)

15 May 2026

Predators reject compromise and undermine diplomatic ties, often claiming baseless victories. The unilateral prioritisation of national interest over collective security appears increasingly inadequate in an era defined by global systemic risk.

4ZZZ interview with Paul James: ‘The Human Condition, Darkly’

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Paul James

4 May 2026

A radio interview with Paul James discussing his new book.

West Gate: The bridge and the play.

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Grazyna Zajdow

4 May 2026

West Gate has been a surprise hit for the very bourgeois Melbourne Theatre Company, which is not really known for presenting working-class voices in its repertoire.

Glimpses of Light beneath the Ruins

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Mahmoud Harb

4 May 2026

Whether we like it or not, we are plants that bloom from the soil in which they root, emerging to flourish in the ether and bearing fruit. Johann Peter Hebel Whenever the South of Lebanon is mentioned, I remember my grandmother. Just like the fig trees and olive trees with which the south is rich, […]

From Warsaw to Gaza

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Richard Hil, Gideon Polya

4 May 2026

Genocide and the Warning of Sacrifice Zones to Come “Gaza is a sacrifice zone. It is where the logic of settler colonialism is laid bare — a populationrendered superfluous, contained, and punished” Chris Hedges. For some, drawing any sort of parallel between Gaza (especially since 7 October 2023) and the Warsaw Ghetto (1942) is antisemitic, […]

Anti-Semitism in a Zone of Ambiguity

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Marcelo Svirsky

Jun 2026

Should the university sector acquiesce to such policies, it would become another link in an institutional chain producing semantic ambiguity and confusion about what anti-Semitism actually is, thereby implicating tertiary education in the spread of actual anti-Semitism.

How Sam Altman learned to stop worrying and love advertising

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Tom Greenwell

2 Apr 2026

The story of the internet is a tale of how new technological possibilities have been shaped to meet the demands of its most wealthy and powerful customers—the marketers who pay top dollar for our attention