The Guardian • Issue #2061 • July 17, 2023
Issue #2061
CRUEL, UNFAIR & ILLEGAL
“Robodebt was a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal, and it made many people feel like criminals. In essence, people were traumatised on...
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Common cause
In 2014 mining magnate Andrew Forrest presented the Abbott Coalition government with “Creating Parity,” a government-commissioned report that was a recipe for wiping out Native...
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Robodebt: War on welfare recipients
Rhys Cauzzo took his own life on 26th January 2017. In the days after his death, his mother went to her son’s apartment in Melbourne...
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Robodebt: War on public servants
Workers at Department of Human Services (DHS) gave evidence to the Robodebt Royal Commission of particularly disturbing or upsetting recipient interactions in relation to the...
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Australia’s deadliest industry
Transport Workers Union (TWU) members are pushing for changes to legislation to make transport work in Australia fair, safe, and sustainable. As the TWU says:...
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Four in five want PwC on the outside
Bad, but not surprising news for large accounting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC), recently caught using its work for the Australian Tax Office to give...
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DINGO
Activists descended on the offices and facilities of global weapons giant Thales last week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Biak massacre in West...
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Richard Marles self-regulates
It is a fundamental principle that the regulation of industries must be independent of the industries themselves. This is particularly important where products that have...
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PEACE NOTES
Good news is rare for peace, but recently the NSW Department of Education amended its policy to add weapons companies to the list of inappropriate...
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Sky News
On 29th June Alexander Voltz of Sky News attacked the Palaszczuk government for wanting to change the name of Brisbane and its main streets to...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRITAIN: The number of construction workers killed in site accidents rose sharply from 29 to 45 last year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has...
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LETTER
Housing: a human right Re: “The Housing Crisis” (Guardian #2059 3rd July 2023) Dear comrade editor, Thank you, Denis Doherty, for your insightful article on...
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Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend
Historian Isaac Deutscher described Stalin as a “huge, grim, whimsical, morbid, human monster,” reflecting a widespread, if simplistic view. However, this view becomes perplexing when...
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Tereshkova first woman in space
On 16th June 1963, at the age of 26, Valentina V Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space, a major Soviet engineering and...
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WEASEL WORDS
Vicious No, not the old Lou Reed song. “Vicious” is how how 9 Newspapers describe Paul Keating’s description of Jens Stoltenberg the secretary general of...
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50th anniversary of the last Australian troops in Vietnam
The 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of the last Australian troops, on 1st July 1973, marks the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War....
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