Cashless Welfare Debit Cards: Lived Experience, Other Facts and Stats.
A LIFE campaign online event featuring Kathryn Wilkes, leader and coordinator of No Cashless Welfare Debit Card, and Amanda Smith from The Say No Seven
Continue reading Learn form the experts about the Cashless Welfare Card
Melbourne
Three locations CBD. From noon until 7.30pm.
Event will be up soon.
Save the date.Starting at 90 Collins St, British Consulate.
!2noon – 1.30pm.Then 553 St Kilda Road, US Consulate.
3pm – 4.30pmFinish up with a Yellow #Ribbons4Assange birthday gathering at:
Flinders Street Station.
6pm – 7.30pm.
Event by Melbourne 4 WikiLeaks
Continue reading Activities for Julian Assange’s birthday on 3 July
The risk is real. It is now clear that the COVID pandemic is far from mover. This is nobody’s fault; Australia could be responding better. Australia has been lucky so far and escaped lightly, compared to other countries. Continue reading COVID danger is spreading again and Australia must do better
Two days ago, the Minneapolis police officer who brutally murdered George Floyd, caused an upheaval in American society, and made the world notice, received a 22 years and 6 months prison sentence. Continue reading Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years for murder of George Floyd
Continue reading Government fights to keep secret Robo Debt documents
A report from the McKell Institute says average wages growth has been falling since 2013. Average wages are now $250 a week below where they would be if their growth had continued as before. Continue reading A changing labour market has stolen from the incomes of most Australians
José Ramos-Horta, the Independence leader, Nobel peace prize winner, and former President of Timor-Leste, , has praised Australian former spy and whistleblower witness K. He said that the whitstleblower should be awarded the Medal of the Republic, Timor-Leste’s greatest honour. Continue reading Move in Timor-Leste to give highest honour to Australia’s witness K
United Nations officials have begun moves to put Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on the UNSCO list of “in danger” world heritage sites. Being on the list would pressure the Australian government to do much more to protect it. If this goes through, it will be the first time a world heritage site has been on the list because of the threat of global warming. Continue reading The UN is moving to list the Great Barrier Reef as threatened by global warming
There is a great deal of hypocrisy when the Morrison government and big media led by Rupert Murdoch’s empire make a stand for who they call fighters for democracy and turn a blind eye to others. Their choice is very selective. It all depends on whether the person concerned lines up with their political interests. Continue reading Morrison government and media join in hypocritical and false defence of democracy
