The Guardian • Issue #2028 • October 17, 2022
Health care is a human right
Reports of emergency patients waiting up to thirty-six hours or more to be off-loaded from ambulances at public hospital emergency departments (EDs) are indicative of...
Read moreNo more tax cuts for the rich
Australia’s “Labor” Party can be incredibly frustrating to those who don’t want to see a return of the Coalition but who also want serious, progressive...
Read moreBed block
“We are not excelling, we are drowning.” This is the headline of the NSW branch of the Australian Paramedics Association’s (APA) submission to the NSW...
Read moreA big short: Australia’s manufactured skills shortage
The National Skills Commission has revealed in its 2022 Skills Priority List Key Finding Report, that 286 occupations were dealing with shortages at a national...
Read moreCoal industry workers in Australia are taking their destiny into their own hands
The coal industry is to Australia what the Second Amendment of the US Constitution (granting citizens the right to bear arms) is to the United...
Read moreQantas declares war on its frontline workforce
In an aggressive step, Qantas has unilaterally reissued a new Notice of Employee Representational Rights (NERR) to its ASU 1- 9 and QFIT workforce. In...
Read moreWhy young people do dream of labour but not as we know it
Our first jobs are meant to be harsh. Or so is the belief, considered by some as a right of passage upheld by the fallacy...
Read moreGermany faces stark choices as it celebrates its “unity”
In 1990, on 3rd October, Germany could rejoice; unity at last, a single flag, a single anthem (Deutschland über alles), a single currency, a single...
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