May 2020 - May Day Melbourne

A people’s call for healthcare not warfare

May 22, 2020 Editor 0

The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) has initiated the letter below. It is part of a campaign to draw attention to the reality that […]

Major employer organisation leads push to slash pay and work conditions

May 22, 2020 Editor 0

By Joe Montero Employer’s organisations have been busy using the Coronavirus crisis, as a screen to push forward an industrial relations agenda, which promises to […]

Australia’s ACCC bats for media monopoly takeover of Internet news

May 22, 2020 Editor 0

Contributed from a member of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp and Nine Entertainment have been pressing the Australian government for a […]

Peter Dutton opens door to attack our rights a little wider

May 22, 2020 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is now pushing changes to laws that will allow the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to […]

Proposed new ASIO law is part of shift to increasing authoritarianism

May 22, 2020 Editor 0

By Joe Montero The Morrison government has just used the cover of the Covid-19 pandemic to introduce into the parliament a new bill, which will […]

Leaks show government moving to pull help from workers and small business

May 22, 2020 Editor 0

By Ben Wilson There is a push form the government to end support for for people who have suffered loss of wages and struggling small […]

The war in West Papua is real and still going on

May 19, 2020 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes Unknown to most Australians, a war is going on just north of Australia. Fuelling it, is a bid by West Papuans to […]

Government promotes the bullying of people on JobSeeker payments

May 19, 2020 Editor 0

By Ugly The private operators in the Job Network program and nowadays called Jobactive providers, have been showing just what a caring lot they are, […]