The Labor government is already crying poor when it comes to health, education, the NDIS or raising JobSeeker. But it's committed to spending at least $170 billion on nuclear-powered submarines as part of the AUKUS agreement. We discuss the issues with Professor Richard Tanter, a Senior Research Associate with the Nautilus Institute and an Honorary Professor in the School of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Richard is a former president of the Australian board of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2017.
Women‘s liberation: lessons from the ‘60s and ‘70s
New Caledonia: the fight for Kanak self-determination
Why supporting Palestine is not antisemitic
COP26: Why capitalism fails the climate
Nuclear power—not safe, not the answer to climate change
The fight for trans liberation
The NDIS: where disability has a market price
Does Australia need an independent foreign policy?
No jab, no job—how should unions and the left respond?
Why NAPLAN is bad for children‘s education
Celeste Liddle: vaccination needs persuasion
The imperialist alliance: Australia, the US and the Asia-Pacific
Palestinian resistance and revolution in the Middle East
COVID and the cops
Malaysia: resistance challenges repression
Palestine and the Unity Intifada
Poverty: Australia's dirty secret
Busting the Liberals' gas myths
COVID and the working class
The struggle today in Aotearoa / New Zealand
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