Congressional anti-abortion crusaders are threatening to shut down the U.S. government unless President Obama defunds Planned Parenthood. These misogynists would grind the country’s economy to a halt in a rabid… Read more »
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For-profit schemes threaten universal health care
May 2014. Medical students were among over 2,000 people protesting the Australian government’s plan for co-payments on doctor visits. Photo: Freya Michie / ABC News See more photos of the… Read more »
Fake reform from the healthcare industry and Congress
Per person, healthcare costs in the United States are the highest of any country in the world; U.S. spending is twice that of countries such as France and Germany. What… Read more »
Right to choose: In Victoria, lesbians and all women win historic rights. Now we must defend them.
2008 ended with a stunning double victory for reproductive justice in Victoria: the decriminalisation of abortion and access to Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) for lesbians and single women. Both took… Read more »
Oh, what a system! Defence of Medicare is crucial, but why stop there?
Recently I heard either a politician or a journalist describe the current Medicare scheme as being in need of an overhaul. Talk about an understatement — it needs much more… Read more »
After SARS: working class and democratic struggle revives in Hong Kong
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), like cholera and most other diseases, arises as a consequence of the conditions of poverty. In this instance, from the initial transference of the disease… Read more »
Pay up now! Stolen wages campaign demands full compensation for fleeced Indigenous workers
Fred Edwards is 64 years old with a heart condition, asthma and diabetes. Yet, as a former stockman from northern Queensland’s Gulf Country, he has to get back in the… Read more »
Bosses alarmed by working women’s “fertility strike!” Finish the fight for reproductive rights now!
I’ve been a working mum for 25 years. Having raised two daughters as a sole parent, I know all about navigating the minefield for women, commonly referred to as “choices.”… Read more »
Public Liability Crisis: Insurance for profit is a fraud on society
Rural doctors afraid to practise, private midwives barred from delivering babies, tourist operators forced out of business, houses standing half built, sport and not-for-profit activities suspended as insurance premiums increase… Read more »
World AIDS care movement wins concessions
Credit goes to the international movement, fighting to win affordable access to HIV medications, for making the biggest dent in the World Trade Organisation’s 2001 agenda. The movement scored three… Read more »
