The Guardian • Issue #2036 • December 12, 2022
Issue #2036
Build the fightback
Decades of privatisations, job cuts and wage suppression and more recently the cuts masked by measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, have taken a huge...
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Farewell, readers
Dear Readers, This issue of The Guardian – The Workers’ Weekly is the final issue I will oversee as editor as I move on to...
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New year’s greeting from the president
It feels like only a few months have passed since I wrote a season’s greeting for 2022. It was the year our 14th Congress, delayed...
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Dealing with a disability and the NDIS process
Our grandson was placed with us when he was a baby. He was a victim of crime and is now living with an acquired brain...
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Wine isn’t the only thing that’s red in the Hunter Region
After nearly a year of preparation and political activity, local workers have re-established what was formerly known as the Newcastle branch of the CPA. Instead...
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DINGO
More than a thousand refugees and their supporters rallied outside Parliament House in Canberra on 29th November to demand permanent visas for refugees. Priya Nadesalingam,...
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Commodification of health care
Since its introduction in 1984, Australia’s national health insurance scheme, Medicare, has been under constant attack from the privateers. Medicare is an anathema to their...
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Varroa mite numbers plateau in Northern NSW
Outbreaks of invasive bee-killing parasite Varroa mites have plateaued since the initial discovery at the Port of Newcastle in June this year. Until recently, Varroa...
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Three months in Detroit: capitalism & racism in a “segregated” city
I lived for three months in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. The house on Tyler Street was not far from Eight Mile Road. One side of...
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Comrade Jiang Zemin: a retrospective
On the last day of November, 2022, Comrade Jiang Zemin died in Shanghai. He was 96 years old, and at the time of writing the...
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