Sydney Uni’s sweeping restructure: cutback and fightback ahead
On the last day of work for 2015, the University of Sydney’s Chancellor, Belinda Hutchinson, announced a drastic restructure of the University. The decisions were made in a secret Senate meeting days...
View ArticleDeath in custody at police hands in NSW
The family of Aboriginal man David Dungay Hill, who died in custody in NSW’s Long Bay jail on 29 December, are demanding answers over the role of corrective services officers in his death. The $50...
View ArticleTurnbull stalls on equal marriage to please homophobic MPs
Part of the deal Malcolm Turnbull struck to take Tony Abbott’s job was promising to stick with his plan for a plebiscite on same-sex marriage after the next election. Six months on, the government is...
View ArticlePublic servants set to strike again
Federal public sector workers are again ramping up their campaign to win better enterprise agreements. In February the largest agency, DHS (including Centrelink, Medicare and child support workers),...
View ArticleInside the System
Keating tells Libs to cut ten times harder Former Labor PM Paul Keating has called on the Liberals to push through massive spending cuts instead of pursuing tax reform. Keating boasted of his own time...
View ArticleNo cuts, no privatisation: Stop Turnbull’s war on Medicare
Not content with cuts to pathology and diagnostic bulk-billing, the Turnbull government has resuscitated Tony Abbott’s plan to privatise Medicare payment systems. But these twin attacks on Medicare...
View ArticleTeacher solidarity with refugees spreads through schools
Teachers, educators, aides, translators and administrative staff in over 70 schools across Australia have come together to say refugees should be studying in our schools and educational institutions...
View ArticleLady Cilento Hospital workers show the way to win
“If you move on baby Asha, you move on 15,000 Maritime Union members.” That’s what Bob Carnegie, Queensland State Secretary of the MUA, told a wildly enthusiastic crowd outside Lady Cilento Hospital on...
View ArticleFight to let them all stay—fight to close the camps
The High Court decision that offshore processing is lawful has triggered a massive wave of defiance and protest, from the churches to the Labor Party. Tens of thousands have demonstrated, signed...
View ArticleEditorial: ‘Let them stay’ defiance can stop Nauru removals
The wave of action demanding the government let the 267 asylum seekers from Nauru and Manus Island stay has put Turnbull on the back foot. We need to keep him there. The growing concern about the 267...
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