The Guardian • Issue #2205 • September 7, 2026
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ASIO powers for repression
“This legislation is without precedent … its provisions potentially allow for the mistreatment of ethnic minorities, the suppression of dissent and the detaining and investigation...
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EDITORIAL
At first, it seems like a very Western Australian thing to do. Faced with a contested by-election in Secret Harbour, Labor put up a gas...
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AUKUS Pillar 2: autonomous vehicles
Everyone knows about AUKUS and nuclear-powered submarines. What has been little discussed in the media is AUKUS Pillar 2, which deals with advanced military technologies,...
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AUKUS and the ALP National Conference: Buying off the union movement
AUKUS remains one of the biggest flashpoints in the labour movement. The 2026 ALP National Conference demonstrated the ALP’s ability to use state mechanisms to...
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Yoorrook final report, one year on: from truth telling to implementation
The Yoorrook Justice Commission was Victoria’s and Australia’s first formal truth-telling inquiry into historic and ongoing systemic injustices perpetrated against Indigenous people through colonisation, led...
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Victorian doctors dispute update
Recently doctors at Victorian public hospitals have commenced industrial action for the first time in 20 years. After over 12 months of negotiations, doctors are...
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The Australian Education Union (AEU) has welcomed the release of a new study into misogyny in schools by Monash University, that outlines the increasing problem...
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Surge in support for Semaphore Club
There has been a nationwide surge in support for South Australia’s much-loved Semaphore Workers’ Club (SWC). The club, a beautiful seaside pub that hosts blues...
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Labor’s Secret Harbour collapse
The political landscape of Western Australia’s outer suburbs changed course on the weekend of 29-30 August as the Australian Labor Party (ALP) suffered a humiliating...
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Sydney Ferries workers take action
Sydney Ferries workers have taken industrial action as frustration grows over private operator Transdev’s failure to deliver a fair and sustainable wage offer to the...
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Townsville military buildup
The Defence Strategic Review placed great importance on Australian defence planning on the defence of Australia’s northern approaches. In 2024, the Australian government announced a...
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NSW Locals to disrupt Pauline Hanson’s campaigning
At the Toronto Hotel, in Lake Macquarie NSW, Pauline Hanson – who has planned ticketed dinner there – will be disrupted by members of the...
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Two-year rental agreements part of union push for renters’ rights
Australia’s union movement is pushing the Federal government to introduce a national two-year rental standard, and for one in 10 new homes to be dedicated...
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Murujuga petroglyphs are being destroyed by pollution
At Murujuga, a sacred cultural landscape across the Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago, 1,500 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia, there are up to two...
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$23 billion, the cost of doing business
Facebook owner Meta will pay US $23 billion (AU $32 billion) after a landmark court battle over teen social media addiction. An RMIT expert says Meta’s settlement...
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PEACE NOTES
Pacific Dragon Exercise “Working together for a strong, secure, stable Indo-Pacific region.” That’s how the public relations people of the US and Australian military reported...
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Communism: The long game
Australia had one of the largest Communist Parties in the Anglophone world in the middle of the last century. That this didn’t continue is not...
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Nat Seeligson’s ‘Symphony for Peace’ (1953)
In 1953, the Communist poet Nattie Seeligson published a long epic poem Symphony for Peace: A Dramatic Poem in Four Movements. The publisher was Current...
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Denial: David Irving vs Deborah Lipstadt
Denial is directed by Mick Jackson, starring Rachel Weisz as Deborah Lipstadt, and Timothy Spall as David Irving. The film covers the 1996 - 2000 lawsuit of...
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Solutions to Crossword
Guardian 1 August 2026, 2204 Across 4 Winter headgear BEANIE 5 Chinese sci-fi epic, Three Body PROBLEM 8 What time does when you’re in a hurry FLIES...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and Baden-Wurttemberg Governor Cem Ozdemir have called for the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to be banned. The...
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HALF THE SKY
As the neoliberal order continues to fail people, we see a resurgence of far-right rhetoric and the empowerment of fascist parties across the imperial core....
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Dolly Parton: Working class hero
The tributes to Dolly Parton since her death on 25 August have dwelt on her songs and on the causes now attached to her name:...
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‘Gaza has ignited a revolution’
Addressing the Second Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress via video link from Palermo, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese argued that the genocide in Gaza has evolved into...
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