On 25 November 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard grandly told Parliament that the government’s Fair Work Bill “takes the Australian value of the fair go and builds around it a new… Read more »
Editorial
Olympic games: An expensive imperialist spectacle
How much is an Olympic gold medal? Not the token itself, but the cost of training and maintaining the winner. About $40 million, based on the last 35 years of… Read more »
Bankrupting Dissent
The federal minister for destroying the environment, Peter Garrett, has made a series of outrageous pro-business decisions, including approval of the Gunns pulp mill near Launceston, the dredging of Port… Read more »
Election result will not improve life for Thailand’s poor
Thailand has a turbulent political history — it has seen 24 prime ministers and 18 coups in the past 75 years. On 23 December 2007, voters again went to the… Read more »
Urgent action needed to end transgender discrimination
We welcome the publication of Tranznation, an important new study launched by the Australian Research Centre of Sex, Health and Society at LaTrobe University. The report confirms that the oppression… Read more »
Military indoctrination: A factory for producing violence against women
A long-ignored aspect of Washington’s war machine is now getting sporadic attention in the U.S. mainstream media. This is the explosion of violence against women, both in war zones and… Read more »
Don’t let education be handed back to the rich: It’s time for students and unions to take the offensive
The Howard Government imposed Voluntary Student Union legislation to destroy a collective voice for students. In a privatising frenzy, John Howard’s Coalition Government is going after education as if there’s… Read more »
Oppression and the State: How the courts, police and prisons keep big business safe
Thousands rallied at Melbourne’s Federation Square on 9 December 2006 to demand David Hicks be brought home. I recently heard ABC journalist, Leigh Sales, talking about her book, Detainee 002:… Read more »
The Superannuation Swindle
A recent report found that most people aged between 35 and 44 will not have enough in their retirement accounts to survive without the age pension. Worse still, the amount… Read more »
May Day Arrests Target National Liberation Movement
On May Day, two Australian citizens were arrested and charged with the vague, yet frightening, charge of supporting a terrorist organisation — the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). This… Read more »
