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Year: 2021
Unions
McCormick workers demand to be treated with respect
Contributed Nearly 100 workers at the McCormick Foods factory in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton have been on strike since 26 February. The reason? Management had imposed a five-year freeze on wages and now plans […]
Housing
Measures to bring down the cost of housing are needed
Contributed by Joe Montero According to the Reserve Bank of Australia. Australian house prices are set to continue rising and are expected to go up by 10 percent this year. February recorded the biggest price […]
International
Secret bombing wars of the United States
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies (Codepink) explain that the coming of Joe Biden to the White House has not changed The aggressive foreign policy of the United states. It continues. Bombing raids against a […]
Centrelink
Campaign to reverse JobSeeker cut to be launched
By Joe Montero Pretending to offer a small increase in JobSeeker, the Morrison government is really handing out a massive cut on 29 March. During the lockdown last year, it was universally recognised that $550 […]
International
Video: A dose of honesty in the European Parliament
A recent speech at the European Parliament exposing double standards when it comes to human rights. There is silence on the attempt to extradite Julian Assange to the United States to be brought before a […]
International
Biden’s reckless Syria bombing not diplomacy he promised
Anyone who might have thought new United sates president Joe Biden was going to usher in a new era of world peace has been living in a fantasy. A new bombing attack launched against Syria […]
Centrelink
Miserable $25 a week JobSeeker rise is really a cut
By Joe Montero We now know that government ministers have agreed to permanently lift the JobSeeker payment by $50 a fortnight or $25 a week. The increase will extend to Austudy, Abstudy and parenting payments. […]
Corruption
The Morrison government’s rape scandal and other troubles
Contributed The rape scandal engulfing the Morrison government just won’t go away. This is its own fault. Right from when it is said to have occurred at Parliament House on 13 March 2019, the lack […]
International
Australia helped make human rights violations in the Philippines
By Ben Wilson It is a disgrace that the Australian government has helped create the military and paramilitary forces in the Philippines that current President Rodgrigo Duterte is using to carry out large scale human […]