The budget should solve rising cost of living and not pork barrel for votes
By Jim Hayes Hours before Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivers this year’s budget, the big issue is the rising cost of living beginning to push down […]
Month: March 2022
Video: John Pilger responds to Supreme Court refusal to hear Assange Appeal
“The arguable point of law is that these fake, these phoney assurances [with #Assange‘s extradition] were put outside a court of law.” Video from Consortium News
What is really behind the Liberal’s loss in South Australia
By Joe Montero The weekend’s election in South Australia saw the Liberal government fall and Labor take its place. Dissatisfaction over the handling of Covid, […]
The floods prove volunteers can only do so much when the government goes awol
The following has been written by RFS volunteer in western Sydney and a GetUp member. He gives his view on the Morrison government’s failure to respond and […]
Signals that the coming budget will be a con are now out
By Joe Montero This year’s federal budget is coming up, and this time the details are being kept hidden from the public. In a budget […]
New generation is worse off than those born before
By Joe Montero The Brotherhood of St Laurence’s twelfth Life Chances report has come out and what it reveals comes as no real surprise. Australians born after 1990 […]
Ukraine is showing elements of forgetting the lessons of history
By Joe Montero Though the 1920’s and 1930’s fascism grew to a scourge in Europe and other places. Its financiers were the super-rich in Europe […]
Fairy tales about Australia’s economic performance hide the truth
By Joe Montero So, the Australian economy is doing well and grew by 3.4 percent in the last quarter? This is what the official figures just […]
Video: The Cooper floodplains are threatened by coal seam gas
The future of the Channel Country is on the line. While the Queensland Government delays protecting the rivers and floodplains, oil and gas giants are […]
Roots of Ukrainian crisis must be addressed to find the peace
By Joe Montero Everyone will agree that the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces is a terrible development. People have already died and more will […]