It is fast becoming a recognised fact — almost a truism — that the Newstart Allowance is too low.
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With the re-election of the Coalition government, conservatives have become emboldened to intensify their agenda of transferring even more wealth and power to the already dominant at the expense of the rest of us.
As the Titanic sank in 1912, the wealthy were given safety on lifeboats while the poor were left to die, locked in the sinking ship.
Today, the countries of the Global North are taking a similar approach to the climate crisis.
It is an image that captured Labor’s class betrayal on July 3, the first day of the new federal parliament.
On one side sat the sole Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent MP Andrew Wilkie. On the other, Labor and Coalition MPs.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison currently earns $538,460 a year and in a few weeks time will earn an additional $10,000 a year.
The fight for women’s rights and against gendered violence is union business.
Could you be described as being “non-faith”? The newly re-elected Coalition government has a law in mind for you.
Thunberg’s strike call is the type of mass action that is critical to push back the fossil fuel corporations and their parties in government.
Far from being too radical, Labor’s shift to the left was too little too late, incomplete and sometimes more rhetoric than substance.
Is action by unions just an attempt to stir up class conflict — the politics of envy — as conservative politicians would have us believe?
Unprincipled preference deals are often done, sometimes even by parties that purport to do politics differently.
Many Change the Rules activists believe the campaign’s independence from Labor is important.