The Guardian • Issue #1975 • August 23, 2021
CPA Central Committee statement: for COVID-safe community
The CPA Central Committee expresses its sympathy to the many working people and the broader community suffering in the wake of the COVID Delta strain...
Read moreIncome support during post-test isolation
Unions NSW have had a breakthrough for workers, winning a $320 COVID Test and Isolate support payment from the NSW Coalition government to cover obligatory stay-at-home time following a COVID test. Victoria has a similar $450 Coronavirus Test Isolation Payment.
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Issue #1975
Money flushed down toilet as ABCC takes CFMEU to court
In what sounds like the premise of a good joke, a union, a portaloo, and a government authority have found themselves at the centre of a controversy that never needed to happen.
Read moreHousing is a human right: tackling homelessness
Safe, secure, and healthy housing is a basic human need and right. But in the capitalist system, this right does not exist, as instead housing is a commodity and avenue for profit-making of the wealthy.
Read moreOur Machiavellian Prime Minister’s secret committees
A recent ruling by Justice Richard White in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), has confirmed that all working documents for the meetings of federal, state, and territory leaders are made accessible under freedom of information law.
Read moreCentrelink forces workers to pay back JobKeeper profits
Centrelink has demanded the return of excess JobKeeper funds from recipients while not demanding the same from businesses who turned a profit while accessing the scheme.
Read moreUN IPCC Report: Australia’s role
Australia has already warmed by an alarming 1.4°C since 1910.
Read moreDylan Voller reflects on Indigenous incarceration
Systemic abuse in NT detention received widespread attention in July 2016 after the ABC’s Four Corners’ exposé “Australia’s Shame” sparked global outrage and prompted the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT.
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Issue #1975
The morals of the market: human rights and the rise of neoliberalism
With the beginning of the Cold War in 1947, Russia attacked the hypocrisy of the US and what it saw as its lack of Human Rights.
Read moreAfghanistan’s socialist years: the promising future killed off by US imperialism
Since the horrific events of the 11th of September, much has been said about the desperate situation of the Afghani people
Read moreIn the country’s every heartbeat
Fidel is always present, with his example, with his ideas and actions, in the country’s every heartbeat.
Read moreTackling the slow death of Mother Earth
Over the period 2010 - 19 the expansion in the dairy industry in the 26-Country state, thanks to the quota restrictions being lifted by the business organisation known as the EU, has resulted in an increase in the land area allocated to dairy farming.
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