March 2022 - May Day Victoria

The budget should solve rising cost of living and not pork barrel for votes

29 March 2022 Editor 0

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 the standard of living for millions of Australians. Instead of […]

Video: John Pilger responds to Supreme Court refusal to hear Assange Appeal

29 March 2022 Editor 0

“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

21 March 2022 Editor 0

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, and the state health and ambulance services were factors. Keeping […]

The floods prove volunteers can only do so much when the government goes awol

19 March 2022 Editor 0

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 provide vital support for communities suffering in the floods that […]

Signals that the coming budget will be a con are now out

19 March 2022 Editor 0

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 just before an election there are usually sound bites promising a […]

New generation is worse off than those born before

7 March 2022 Editor 0

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 are on average worse off than those who were born […]

Ukraine is showing elements of forgetting the lessons of history

7 March 2022 Editor 0

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 and the United States. One example was Henry Ford, who […]

Fairy tales about Australia’s economic performance hide the truth

3 March 2022 Editor 0

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 handed down are telling us. If it were true, it […]

Video: The Cooper floodplains are threatened by coal seam gas

3 March 2022 Editor 0

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 on the march. It’s time to protect the Channel Country […]

Roots of Ukrainian crisis must be addressed to find the peace

3 March 2022 Editor 0

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 do so. There will be political and economic damage that […]

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Month: March 2022

The budget should solve rising cost of living and not pork barrel for votes

Video: John Pilger responds to Supreme Court refusal to hear Assange Appeal

What is really behind the Liberal’s loss in South Australia

The floods prove volunteers can only do so much when the government goes awol

Signals that the coming budget will be a con are now out

New generation is worse off than those born before

Ukraine is showing elements of forgetting the lessons of history

Fairy tales about Australia’s economic performance hide the truth

Video: The Cooper floodplains are threatened by coal seam gas

Roots of Ukrainian crisis must be addressed to find the peace