This shocking case is just the latest illustration of how Australian governments — Coalition and Labor — have served multinational corporate interests at the expense of the Timorese people.
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The existence of Border Force is just as racist and authoritarian as Trump’s proposed Border Wall or Israel's Apartheid Wall.
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We need to keep the pressure up for real solutions, on our terms, which will begin to shatter institutional sexism.
Racism is bosses' ideology and fighting it should be core business for the union movement.
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Pill testing is an effective harm minimisation activity but to really save lives we need to end drug prohibition in Australia and to effectively regulate the quality and supply of drugs.
The Big Four banks must be nationalised so people can take back their stolen wealth and a new public banking system must be created under democratic community control.