Disenfranchised, working-class voters looking to lodge a protest vote against the major parties helps explain the high vote for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Markela Panegyres looks at the issues in the South Australian election.
Markela Panegyres
Markela Panegyres argues that while the global movement for Palestine has shifted public opinion, it has to become more organised to stop this genocide.
Grace Tame provoked outrage because she did not behave in a way she was expected to, particularly for a successful woman in the media spotlight. By not smiling, Tame did not take up her prescribed role; she was defiant, not submissive.
The aggressive police operation to “combat” the COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney’s South West is yet another example of politicians’ racist, anti-working class and punitive handling of the pandemic.