The Guardian • Issue #2152 • July 7, 2025
Issue #2152
Israel’s nuclear threat
The ceasefire between US/Israel and Iran does not mark the end of imperialist hostilities against the sovereign state of Iran. The debate around the damage...
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EDITORIAL
You’re being lied to, but they’re being smart about it. Nobody is saying that nothing is happening in Palestine. Nobody is saying that AUKUS isn’t...
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More union action across Australia
Unions are getting active. Across Australia a number of unions are currently involved in industrial action, including strikes. These actions are in support of ongoing...
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SASMOA votes for strike across Adelaide hospitals
On 25 June, in a one-hour stop work meeting in Adelaide, 2,800 medical professionals discussed future industrial action. Stage three surgeries were cancelled. Doctors have...
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Unions alive and kicking!
The Australian media tend to show union industrial action as uncommon, and that unions rarely win. This is far from the truth. There was a...
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DINGO
The Australian Conservation Foundation says the CSIRO’s report Towards a state of the food system report for Australia, should inform a new approach to how...
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NSW Greens candidate injured in protests
“Close to 50.” That’s how many police a witness estimated attended a peaceful picket in Belmore in Western Sydney on 27 June. Approximately 35 protesters...
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Health support workers strike in SA
UWU (United Workers Union) health support workers across South Australia have taken strike action at Glenside Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital,...
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ACTU supports police industrial action
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Executive formalised their support for the ongoing Police Association of NSW (PANSW) industrial action. On 30 June, NSW...
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CFMEU High Court Decision: a lawyer explains
The High Court has delivered its decision on the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Administration) Act 2024 – the legislation which places the union’s general...
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Strike at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital
Nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Western Sydney’s Westmead Hospital went on strike on 23 June, over grave concerns about patient safety...
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UWU ongoing industrial action at Quantem terminal Geelong
Terminals Pty Ltd (Quantem Bulk Liquid Storage & Handling) in Geelong, Victoria, provides bulk aviation fuel to Tullamarine, Australia’s second largest airport. United Workers’ Union...
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GREEN NOTES
Extreme weather events are no longer ‘one-in-a-hundred-year’ or ‘one-in-five-hundred-year’ events. They are becoming more frequent and more extreme with records constantly being broken. Yet the...
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ISDS: Trade in corporate power
One of Clive Palmer’s companies is suing the Australian government for $300 billion over the West Australian government’s refusal to grant an iron ore mining...
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NDIS inbuilt rorts: a user’s view
The National Disability Insurance Scheme has private providers and rorting built in. This is our experience. We have written several letters of complaint about company...
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Football: Epic pastings
“220-point win mate. Take it to the bank.” The speaker is a mate who’s justly proud of playing local football in Victoria in his late...
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Worth Watching
Newsfront: Australian newsreel cameramen chase the news around Australia from just after WW2 until 1956 when television is introduced to Australia, and everyone goes off...
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Warrior of Peace, a visit to Leonard Peltier
Sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two US federal agents in a shoot-out in 1975, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier was sentenced to...
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Neutrality would suit Slovakia in times of armament: PM
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has spoken out for the first time about the neutrality of the country, which has been a member of NATO...
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Libya revisited
No one should be under any illusions about the intentions of Western governments and their offensive against Iran via their two nuclear-armed attack dogs, Israel...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The Indigenous People’s Coalition (IPC) met in Nashville to discuss opposition to anti-immigrant raids conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the...
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WEASEL WORDS
Sensible On the face of it, this is a good thing – who wants to be not sensible? The weaselly use comes from using it...
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Solutions to Crossword
Guardian 30 June 2025 #2151 Down 1. Hiroshima – Japanese city where the US brutally attacked innocent civilians 2. Severny – Island over which the most...
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