Editor, Author at May Day Victoria

Fundraiser to help Esso workers at Longford

16 June 2018 Editor 0

For more than a year, workers at Esso’s gas plant at Longford in Victoria, have been out of work and maintaining a permanent vigil outside the gate, over their refusal to accept a cut to […]

Australia is moving towards a treaty with the First Nations

16 June 2018 Editor 0

From Queensland Joining Victoria’s historic initiative towards putting in place a treaty with the First Nations of the state, the Northern Territory has signed a memorandum of understanding towards a similar result.

Inhumane government and corruption are two sides of the same coin

16 June 2018 Editor 0

By Adam Carlton Corruption among Australia’s top politicians is all the talk now. The common wisdom is that corruption drives the wheels of the Australian political system.

Trump scuttles G7 agreement on global warming and trade

16 June 2018 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes In Australia, the final communique from the G7 meeting in Canada went almost unnoticed. The reason is that the Turnbull government decided to ignore it, because it is thoroughly secured to the […]

Average income is much less than we are being told

11 June 2018 Editor 0

By Joe Montero According to the government and reported by much of the media, the average adult in Australia has an income of $84,600. The so how does this match up with the reality that […]

Casualisation of work is rooted in the economic system

11 June 2018 Editor 0

By Joe Montero According to the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work, ABS data from 2012 to 2017, shows that full time work with leave entitlements has fallen to 49.97 percent and just 38.9 percent […]

Assange should come home to Australia now

11 June 2018 Editor 0

The following by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks legal advisor, solicitor Greg Barns, and published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 2 June 2018, provides a case for intervention by the Australian government, for the protection […]

The Commonwealth Bank fined for what should be regarded as criminal acts

7 June 2018 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes After facing accusations form the Federal Government’s financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC, involving serious breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws, the Commonwealth Bank has agreed to pay a $700 million fine. […]

Michaelia Cash and the government are working hard to bury the real story over the AWU raid

7 June 2018 Editor 0

By Joe Montero As the old saying goes, Jobs Minister Senator Michaelia Cash is “in more…than a Werribee duck.” She is sinking over the fallout from the Australian Workers Union Affair.

Spain’s government falls and opens up the political future

7 June 2018 Editor 0

by Joe Montero Spain’s Popular Party (PP) Government led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy fell last Friday, after a no confidence vote triggered by the climax of a corruption scandal.

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Fundraiser to help Esso workers at Longford

Australia is moving towards a treaty with the First Nations

Inhumane government and corruption are two sides of the same coin

Trump scuttles G7 agreement on global warming and trade

Average income is much less than we are being told

Casualisation of work is rooted in the economic system

Assange should come home to Australia now

The Commonwealth Bank fined for what should be regarded as criminal acts

Michaelia Cash and the government are working hard to bury the real story over the AWU raid

Spain’s government falls and opens up the political future