The Guardian • Issue #2021 • August 29, 2022
Issue #2021
Profiteering & neglect: the aged care crisis
The aged care sector is in crisis. The failings are systemic and require fundamental structural changes. Aged care has been commodified by corporate and church...
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60th anniversary of Australia’s involvement in Vietnam
This week marks sixty years since Australia entered the Vietnam war. Considered by many to be a Cold War-era proxy war, the conflict lasted almost...
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Energy transition authority critical to creating secure jobs for a safer climate
The ACTU calls on the Albanese Government to quickly establish a national Energy Transition Authority tasked with ensuring that workers and their communities affected by...
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Stalin and the national question: a first nations case study
To say that the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has caused consternation among Australia’s far-right would be an understatement. Earlier this month, speaking in the Senate,...
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Treaty authority established in Victoria
On 16th August, the Victorian Parliament passed legislation creating an independent body to oversee treaty negotiations between the Victorian government and the state’s Traditional Owners....
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DINGO
All the contradictions. The official unemployment figure is 3.4 per cent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Workers were told that once unemployment...
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WEASEL WORDS
What does it mean to be “resilient”? Is “wellness” a good thing? Well it depends on who you ask in this fortnight’s edition of Weasel...
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Chile after the coup
It has been nearly fifty years since the infamous coup in Chile on 11th September 1973. The world became aware of the heinous birth of...
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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Misinformation on the Ukraine is everywhere, especially if you happen to be in a Western country like Australia. Where do we find accurate information, especially...
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Public sector alliance rally – WA
In Western Australia there has been a campaign of industrial activity over the past six weeks by more than ten trade unions who make up...
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Using Taiwan to contain China is doomed to fail
Taiwan has been an integral part of China’s territory since ancient times, there is but one China in the world, and the Government of the...
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US rail union leaders warn: corporate greed will delay your holiday gifts, again
US: Crunch. And a shortage of everything. That’s the warning rail union leaders are sending to consumers as the nation approaches the holiday season. Expect,...
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