The Guardian • Issue #2199 • July 27, 2026
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Strike! Battle for the Pilbara
Workers at the world’s largest bulk iron ore export operation are taking protected industrial action; the first of its kind in nearly three decades. The...
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EDITORIAL
A lot of Australians have left uni and put it behind them. Even more people never went. A lot of people don’t watch the ABC...
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In defence of dissent
More than 40 civil society groups are calling on Australian universities to protect the right to peaceful protest, freedom of expression and academic freedom on...
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NSW unions urge labour hire crackdown
A new McKell Institute report outlines how dozens of labour hire operators banned in other states have been drawn to NSW which has no licensing...
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Vic unions welcome surveillance laws upgrade
“Police cannot covertly surveil someone without a court order, the same rules should apply to your boss.” So says Luke Hilikari, Victorian Trades Hall Council...
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Union urges ATO to bring work in-house
Millions of Australians are filing their tax returns right now blissfully unaware that the call centre workers patiently helping them don’t actually work for the...
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Doubts over Albo’s AI jobs boom
Prime Minister Albanese has made a major speech about AI. The speech has been welcomed by the lobby group Data Centres Australia, but Albo’s fine...
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DINGO
Australia has pledged a policy of “No New Extinctions” and committed to international biodiversity targets. Yet one of the world’s most unique species may be...
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NSW starts youth fraction
On the 11 July, the inaugural meeting of the NSW Youth Fraction of the Communist Party of Australia was held, formalising the establishment of a...
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Increased voter support for South Australia’s Voice
South Australia’s First Nations Voice is a representative, legislatively created elected body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the state. Commenting on the...
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Victorian teachers vote for 24-hour statewide stopwork action
Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian Branch members have voted to reject the Allan Labor government’s latest public school pay and conditions offer. The results of...
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Organise and win
The Australian Services Union has condemned Liberal Leader, Angus Taylor in the strongest terms for his retrograde remarks to the Sydney Institute which he repeated...
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Tasmanian press freedom breach
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union representing journalists in Australia, is concerned about conduct on a post published on Tasmanian Minister Felix...
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Northern Tasmania arcs up on data centres
North Ireland-based energy giant Firmus is proposing to build three data centres in northern Tasmania, in St Leonards in Launceston, Bell Bay’s George Town, and...
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Red carpet for ‘energy vampires’
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has called for an urgent pause on data centre approvals, after Anthony Albanese revealed the government’s AI legislation won’t be introduced until...
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PEACE NOTES
Peace work – right next door to you It’s easy to look at missiles going off in the Middle East on your TV or the...
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Adelaide University – a troubled merger
This year, the University of Adelaide and University of South Australia have merged together to become Adelaide University. The new university has completed its first...
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A Marxist reading of ‘Digital Fordism’
‘Fordism’ refers to the assembly lines developed by Ford, in which each worker performed just one simple task over and over again. Factory and warehouse...
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Understanding CPC, China’s governing party
Different from Australia’s two-party system, China practices the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC)....
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LETTERS
Australia must send more aid to Venezuela The Australian government has pledged $2 million in humanitarian assistance to Venezuela following the devastating earthquakes of 24...
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Solutions to Crossword
Guardian 3 July 2026, 2198 Across 2 Who had a funeral in three countries? KHAMENEI 6 JD Vance says his faith makes him oppose “low wage.” FOREIGNERS...
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Latin America Political Cinema
In this book, Jorge Majfud analyses eighteen influential Latin American films through the lens of anti-imperialism, social justice, class conflict, military repression, Indigenous identity, and...
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Solidarity in Action: Trade Unions and the Palestinian Cause
Solidarity in Action: Trade Unions and the Palestinian Cause is a brief history of the British trade union movement’s support of the Palestinian cause. Cowlishaw...
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Video games and capitalism
Recently, Sony announced that starting from January 2028, PlayStation games will no longer be available in physical form. Instead, games will be only purchasable through...
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Sport: Soccer
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) president Aleksander Ceferin stayed away from the World Cup final in protest, with the Folarin Balogun affair understood to...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
CHINA: Twenty-nine countries have signed an agreement in Shanghai on establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO). The organisation will be an independent international...
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African countries reject Trump aid
Bucking the Western stereotype of African countries being needy and desperate, some African countries have rejected foreign aid from the Trump administration due to the...
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HALF THE SKY
The Sámi are an indigenous population in northern Sweden, Finland and eastern Russia. Traditionally semi-nomadic, parts of the population still practice reindeer herding, forestry, hunting,...
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Protection racket: Trump bombs Iran again
The United States carried out its third consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran, as President Donald Trump moved to reimpose a naval blockade on Iranian...
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The world prefers China
For decades, Washington has been able to console itself with the notion that, whatever the world thought of its never-ending criminal wars, it could always...
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Xi speaks on AI development
Chinese President Xi Jinping has presented four observations on artificial intelligence (AI) development and governance while addressing the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI...
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King of the Hill, season 15
If you didn’t know much about the King of the Hill series, you might view it as a comedic cartoon that simply follows a conservative...
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