The Guardian • Issue #2042 • February 27, 2023
Issue #2042
International Women’s Day
Over the past 100 years or more Australian women have made many gains but huge hurdles remain to be overcome. The struggle is far from...
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Put socialism back into IWD
The inspiration for International Women’s Day arose out of the struggle of working-class textile women to form trade unions and for the right to vote...
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Talking About Land Rights
To sustain life people have to produce food, clothing, shelter and other necessities. The process of production takes place within the interaction between human society...
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“Hold mining companies to account”
Last week two mineworkers, Dylan Langridge and Trevor Davis, were killed at work at the Dugald River zinc mine in north-west Queensland. Just prior to...
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Nurses and midwives are hurting
Nurses and midwives are hurting. Working a double shift or extra hours has become the norm, and two days off in a row is considered...
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Call Unanswered
Unanswered phone calls at Services Australia reflect the attraction and retention issues plaguing the Australian Public Service (APS), according to the Community and Public Sector...
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Apartheid complicity
Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley’s 2017 report for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (“Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the...
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The bastard banks
The Reserve Bank continues to launch an assault on the working class. The fallacy that interest rate rises are going to do anything other than...
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Immigration re-detention raids
Having introduced laws to over-turn the legal decision last December that saw 163 people released from immigration detention, the government has begun re-detaining people. It...
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GREEN NOTES
One of the biggest con jobs foisted on the Australian public and the planet is Chevron’s $81 billion Gorgon “clean gas” project in WA. It...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Air traffic came to a virtual standstill on the 17th February with around 2340 flights cancelled. The strike affected almost 300,000 passengers. Germany’s flag...
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IWD Quiz
Can you identify these women? Over centuries of struggle many women have played a leading role, whether it be against slavery, racism, exploitation, sexism or...
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