Aged care homes need to be nationalised now to help stop the spread of COVID-19 and to give residents their health, safety and dignity back.
Sue Bolton
The Victorian lockdown of public housing estates was scapegoating and victimisation of migrants and poor working-class people. It revealed the government’s racist and patronising assumption that these people are incapable of understanding, or complying with, public health messages voluntarily.
The latest evidence of the internal abuses add to a long history of branch stacking in the Labor Party — by all factions.
Protests have exploded across the world in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, which itself has exploded since the racist murder of George Floyd on May 25. Every country has its own experience of racism and police brutality.
Arndt and Hanson are femicide deniers. Like climate change deniers who refuse to acknowledge the science, these two deny that the intentional killing of women is a growing problem that governments need to address.
Over 25,000 Victorians voted for the newly formed Victorian Socialists on November 24. A great result to build upon.
We need to keep the pressure up for real solutions, on our terms, which will begin to shatter institutional sexism.
As thousands of people attended vigils around the country for Eurydice Dixon, Socialist Alliance's Sue Bolton is angry about the victim-blaming and authoritarian measures being offered up as “solutions”.
The Australian government is continuing military cooperation with the genocidal Myanmar regime, despite its attacks on Rohingya civilians.
Andrew Bolt takes me to task for being “irresponsible” for “propagandising” about the colonial invasion and subsequent massacres of First Nations people.
Sue Bolton explains that there needs to be a strong response against racism and racist scapegoating. But to really undercut right-wing populism, the left needs to put forward a political and economic alternative and fight for it.
Moreland Socialist councillor Sue Bolton explains that Centrelink staff warned management that the 'robo-debt' notices would be wrong and the new debt recovery system would incorrectly claim overpayments.