A week ago, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) launched a campaign to raise the Youth Allowance and called for an increase in Newstart. It’s called Raise the Rate.
Continue reading ACOSS launches campaign to increase Youth Allowance and Newstart
By any account, yesterday’s (17 April) meeting of union delegates at the Melbourne Town Hall, was an impressive launch to an active major campaign to bring about an end to what is now widely regarded as an unfair industrial regime in Australia. Continue reading Melbourne Town Hall meeting launches battle to take on industrial relations system and more
Julie Bishop is on a mission to “defend the rules that have underpinned a period of relative global peace and prosperity.” Continue reading Julie Bishop is on a mission to defend global rules
There is a real danger that history may repeat in Syria, after the allegation that the Syrian Bashara Assad led government has used chemical weapons against civilians, and the subsequent reaction of the United States, Great Britain and France.
Continue reading Syrian gas attack is a reminder of the weapons of mass destruction lie
The Turnbull government’s war against Centrelink benefit recipients is based on the lie that they are imposing a burden on those who have a job. Continue reading Smoking gun shows that the unemployed and pensioners are not the bludgers
Malcolm Turnbull has certainly got himself into a mess. Thirty times and he’s down for the count at Newspoll. Continue reading The sharks are circling a wounded Malcolm Turnbull
Continue reading Refugees plead for reunification with family
Unions are planning a series of big marches around Australia, and they are expected to be the largest turnout since those that occurred during the “Your Rights at Work” campaign, directed at John Howard’s WorkChoices law. Continue reading Unions are planning big marches to bring change to industrial relations law
