The Guardian • Issue #2050 • May 1, 2023
Issue #2050
Fight back!
May Day is just eight days away from the federal budget. All we hear from Treasurer Jim Chalmers are attempts to soften up the electorate...
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May Day 2023: What do we march for?
1889 is a long way behind us, and the first May Day commemoration honouring the workers killed and wounded in the Haymarket confrontation in Chicago...
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Coles bargaining 2023: Not down down
RAFFWU, the Retail And Fast Food Workers Union is bargaining for members at Coles. Workers at Australia’s second-biggest supermarket chain can sign up to have...
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For-profit health in the trolley
In the language of privatisation, Sydney’s public trains call the millions who use the system daily, not commuters, but “customers.” Now, with Woolworths, the giant...
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Public Housing in Glebe saved!
Pro-public housing group Hands off Glebe has been campaigning to stop the sell-off of public housing in Sydney’s Glebe area for years. Now they have...
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Open letter to Albanese: Raise the rate
Politicians academics, business leaders, community advocates and other prominent Australians have joined in a rare display of unity to urge the Prime Minister to implement...
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“No empathy, no morals”
The following is a statement from Murujuga traditional custodians responding to the announcement today (25th April) that Perdaman will begin the immediate removal of sacred...
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MUA goes hard for renewable energy
The Commonwealth government is holding a consultation on declaring an “Offshore Renewable Energy Area” off the coast of Newcastle, running from Port Stephens south to...
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DINGO
The governments of ten Latin American and Caribbean countries met to discuss the best ways to jointly counter the inflationary wave sweeping the world which...
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Raise the rate raises the roof
So many different sources are speaking out against the Albanese government’s refusal to “raise the rate” – meaning increase Jobseeker, Commonwealth Rent Assistance, and related...
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Wong’s “reality check” ignores reality
When Penny Wong took over as Foreign Minister from Marise Payne last year, she was surfing the wave of approval that brought the Albanese Labor...
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GREEN NOTES
Anna Pha Australians spend more than $570 and consume around 500 litres per person on bottled water per annum – second only to Singapore. The...
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63 years: A call to end the Cuban blockade
On 10th February 2023, local councillors in Washington DC put up resolution PR25-0113 calling for the Biden administration to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA: The deputies of the newly constituted National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) re-elected Miguel Diaz Canel as President of the Republic of Cuba with...
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No weapons in space
As the US war preparations escalate, its plans for domination here on earth also extend to the weaponising of space. At the UN Conference on...
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HALF THE SKY
Many people are struggling to put a roof over their head for an affordable price. Current legislation at both state and federal level allows for...
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Sugar and blackbirding
The Queensland sugar industry annually generates $2 billion, and this industry began with indentured labour. In July 2021 the mayor of Bundaberg, Jack Dempsey, made...
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Hands off Africa
Pope Francis’s recent visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo has focused world attention on a “forgotten genocide” in a region long exploited by...
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