Racists use Cologne attacks to demonise Muslims and refugees
Racist politicians are trying to use horrific New Year’s Eve attacks on women in German cities to undermine solidarity with refugees. These attempts are also boosting racist groups. They hope to stir...
View ArticleClose Nauru and Manus—Australia the only place to resettle refugees
The Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, made headlines in mid-January threatening to send 72 children back to Nauru. The children are among the 260 asylum seekers and refugees who have been brought...
View ArticleDon’t let the courts send these unionists to jail
At least 5000 Melbourne building workers joined a strike and rally in early December as CFMEU officials John Setka and Shaun Reardon faced court. The two Victorian Construction union officials face...
View ArticleThe Trade Union Royal Commission—a right royal union bashing
After 18 months and almost $46 million dollars, the Trade Union Royal Commission, delivered its final report in December. The Liberal’s loyal servant, Commissioner John Dyson Heydon, delivered volumes...
View ArticleBashed in custody: Justice now for 11-year-old Denzel
On 22 December three prison guards at Wacol Youth Detention Centre in Brisbane brutally bashed 11-year-old Aboriginal boy Denzel, leaving him hospitalised. Denzel’s father Morris described the extent...
View ArticleSaying sorry means you won’t do it again—fighting the ongoing Stolen Generations
In December, activists travelled to Jigalong, a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia that is crying out for help to stop the Department of Child Protection forcibly removing their children....
View ArticleInside the system
Mothers could lose $12,000 in Turnbull’s parental leave cuts New mothers could still be $11,800 worse off under Turnbull’s regressive changes to paid parental leave (PPL) announced in late December....
View ArticleTurnbull’s pathology cuts: the new war on Medicare
The Coalition is wielding the scalpel on Medicare—again. As part of their December mini-budget, the government announced cuts of $650 million over four years to an incentive for pathologists to bulk...
View ArticleEditorial: Rule-for-the-rich Turnbull targets penalty rates, unions, Medicare
Malcolm Turnbull tried to use the dying days of 2015 to dump two tainted Ministers. First sexist Minister Jamie Briggs, who resigned after being outed for an incident with a female public servant in a...
View ArticleLet them stay, close the camps: How can the refugee campaign win?
The High Court decision that offshore processing is lawful has triggered a wave of protest, from the churches to the Labor Party. If we can harness the opposition, we can win the demand to let them...
View ArticleSydney 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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