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25.01.2022 "The ALP must reflect its strong union values by encouraging and supporting greater union organisation even for grassroots unions who do not meet the real definition of a union." Savannah Benson on the limits of a legalistic definition of unionism in Challenge Magazine today.

25.01.2022 Matt Byrne argues we need to be creating our own vision for what cities and communities look like after #COVID19 or corporations will do it for us. https://www.challengemag.org/post/covid-19-killed-the-cbd

24.01.2022 Great read in the Canberra Times from Osmond Chiu today

23.01.2022 This week saw one of our editors, Osmond Chiu, questioned by Liberal Senators Eriz Abetz and Concetta Fierravanti-Wells in McCarthyist scenes. Thanks to Andrew Giles MP for calling out this behaviour.

23.01.2022 Steve Murphy from the AMWU - Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union spoke at the School Strike 4 Climate last week about what we need to see from our politicians for real change, and the ways in which the climate movement can reach out to workers.

23.01.2022 Thanks to Susie Byers and Andrew Giles MP for today's Challenge article on reforming Victorian Labor into a more transparent and open party.

21.01.2022 In case you missed it - have a read of the second part of Godfrey Moase's series on 'What is Socialism?' https://www.challengemag.org/post/what-is-socialism-part-2

20.01.2022 "For millions of Australians, home has been a sanctuary from the fear and threats of the outside world. But that hasn’t been the experience for all. For too many women the fear and the threats have come from inside the home." Domestic violence is the shadow pandemic that we need to contend with in the wake of COVID-19. Thanks to Jenny McAllister for shedding light on it in Parliament this week.

20.01.2022 This suite of bills seeks to create a legal landscape which preferences freedom of religion over all other human rights. It creates a false and harmful dichotomy between respecting people of faith and respecting other minority groups, like LGBTIQ people. Thanks to Audrey Marsh for a great piece on Mark Latham's anti-LGBTIQ bills in the NSW Parliament.

17.01.2022 Check out today's piece by Moreland South ALP candidate Shirley Jackson articulating the case for a community wealth building agenda.

17.01.2022 This morning a cross-party group delivered an open letter to the Acting Minister of Immigration, Alan Tudge, regarding Liberal Senator Eric Abetz' questioning of Chinese Australians' loyalties. While the Government has been silent regarding these attacks on Australian citizens, Senator Abetz has continued to deny wrongdoing, and has doubled down on his dangerous rhetoric. SHARE this open letter and demand that Scott Morrison ensure that Senator Abetz' loyalty testing has no place in Australia's Parliament.

15.01.2022 Thanks to Felix Faber for this piece on how the NSW Government has used Coronavirus to crack down on dissent.

14.01.2022 Today's Challenge piece on the Jobs Guarantee and MMT comes from the NT's Jengis Osman, as a response to last week's article on the JG. Check it out below.

14.01.2022 Eventually, the Covid-19 pandemic will end, but the Liberals' assault on the arts will not. Felix Faber discusses what the left needs to do to prepare in today's Challenge.

14.01.2022 Thanks to CPSU - Community and Public Sector Union ACT Secretary Maddy Northam for this piece on ACT Labor’s commitment to legislate limits on privatisaton in Canberra.

13.01.2022 The narrative that Gladys is unlucky in love, or fell for the wrong guy is demeaning and wrong. Thanks to Chloe Smith for approaching the issue head-on in Challenge.

11.01.2022 "For constitutional monarchists and republicans alike, there are lessons here about our democratic institutions, and the practices, habits and laws necessary to protect them. However without Hocking’s efforts, these lessons may well have remained hidden. The decades of secrecy that has surrounded the 1975 Dismissal exemplifies how not to treat our country’s history." Check out this great piece by Jenny McAllister on the Dismissal, the Palace Letters, and Professor Jenny Hocking's fight to bring them to light.

11.01.2022 Osmond Chiu on the argument for an Australian #GreenNewDeal and some of the key dilemmas that any GND will need to confront. https://www.challengemag.org//the-three-big-questions-for-

10.01.2022 "For me, the most defining image from the COVID pandemic is of a dead aged care resident being taken out of Epping Gardens nursing home wrapped in a rug. Seems the budget didn’t stretch to the dignity of a regulation body bag. On the same day, we saw pictures of just some of the wealth accumulated by the owner of Epping Gardens. A Maserati, a Toorak house which was described by Vogue as a "mansion made for modern-day Greek gods" with a "field-sized" living room and a bathroom filled with the "goddess-worthy relic" of a bath "hewn from single-slab black stone"." Thanks to Ged Kearney for today's important Challenge piece.

09.01.2022 Thought-provoking article by Michael Hiscox in today's Challenge, posing some important questions for a jobs guarantee.

08.01.2022 Thanks to Chansey Paech MLA for today's Challenge article about the need to change the systems that govern indigenous lives.

08.01.2022 For NAIDOC Week Senator Tim Ayres has kindly allowed us to republish his 2018 remembering Pat Dixon, a hero of the progressive movement. Check it out here.

07.01.2022 ICYMI - great read today by Osmond Chiu for Jacobin magazine on Labor's Left.

07.01.2022 Check out a piece from the Challenge archives today - Anne Aly on the idea of a Multicultural Australia predicated on democratic citizenship and participation, not just a taste for foreign cuisine. "Multiculturalism in Australia is in desperate need of a recalibration. For too long we have been complacent, spouting eight-word slogans while blissfully ignoring the fact that for many migrants barriers to full participation have not delivered the kind of equality multiculturalism once promised." If you want to know more, join us this Wednesday for a discussion on how the ALP can reflect Australia's cultural diversity: https://www.facebook.com/events/727981731325473

06.01.2022 "If there is a snapback in terms of income support payments, millions of Australians will be in poverty. The cycle of poor mental health will continue and people will choose what basic necessities are the most important." Check out Sinead Simpkins' piece on the government's callous plans for a snapback here

04.01.2022 Compared to other similar countries, Australia's Parliament is still overwhelmingly white and less and less representative of our country. Thanks to Sabrin Farooqui for exploring how Labor can do better and bring modern Australia into our Parliament.

01.01.2022 Local content requirements of money spend alone aren’t getting the results we need it’s time to look at how we judge local content. Thanks to Alex Cassie from the AMWU for today's Challenge piece.