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Learn form the experts about the Cashless Welfare Card

2 July 2021 Editor 0

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 […]

Activities for Julian Assange’s birthday on 3 July

30 June 2021 Editor 0

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 […]

Stop drive to war with China

29 June 2021 Editor 0

COVID danger is spreading again and Australia must do better

29 June 2021 Editor 0

By Adam Carlton 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 […]

Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years for murder of George Floyd

29 June 2021 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes 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.

Government fights to keep secret Robo Debt documents

25 June 2021 Editor 0

The government is fighting hard to prevent the disclosure of documents that stand to expose the political nature of the Robo Debt program. Allegations that the creation of debt was deliberately engineered to discourage applying […]

A changing labour market has stolen from the incomes of most Australians

25 June 2021 Editor 0

By Joe Montero 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 […]

Move in Timor-Leste to give highest honour to Australia’s witness K

25 June 2021 Editor 0

By Ben Wilson 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 UN is moving to list the Great Barrier Reef as threatened by global warming

25 June 2021 Editor 0

By Jim Hayes 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 […]

Morrison government and media join in hypocritical and false defence of democracy

25 June 2021 Editor 0

By Joe Montero 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 […]