The Guardian • Issue #2065 • August 14, 2023
FUND PUBLIC HOUSING!
The housing crisis continues to deepen with an estimated shortfall of 640,000 houses. Recent interest rate rises are still to take their toll on home...
Read moreTricks and Treaties
Are you scared yet? Australia’s conservative opposition wants you to be frightened. Scares are second nature to the Liberal Party. Only four years ago, they...
Read moreHidden costs of HAFF
Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) comes with the hidden costs incurred in managing the Fund. To understand the wastage of money not going to...
Read moreFor every child
The Australian Education Union has launched a national campaign to secure the full funding of public schools. The “For Every Child” campaign aims to secure...
Read moreVale Pete Andrew
Vale Pete Andrew, long-time Guardian The Workers’ Weekly cartoonist. A remembrance of his life will appear in the next issue of the Guardian. Rest in...
Read moreRental reform call to Senate inquiry
A coalition of more than 80 organisations across Australia has urged governments to act swiftly on rental reform in a joint submission to the Senate’s...
Read moreDINGO
Some readers might remember the Michael Moore show Sicko about the US for-profit health system, where he campaigned for a patient to have a life-saving...
Read moreBaking in inequality – a stunning betrayal
The federal government has been accused of a stunning betrayal after it signed off on a Labour Migration Agreement that will see 400 temporary visa...
Read morePEACE NOTES
The military tentacles of imperialism reach out into all parts of the globe as it struggles to maintain its domination. The Arctic is no exception....
Read moreThe failure of the far right in the Spanish elections
The recent Spanish general election is a turning point in the rise of the far right. Polls had predicted that the ultra-nationalist VOX party would...
Read moreNATIONAL BRIEFS
UNITED NATIONS: Global prices for food commodities such as rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia pulled out...
Read moreUSA: Hunger and food insecurity
The United States is a net exporter of food, yet hunger is a worsening phenomenon with many Americans unable to buy basic foods, due to...
Read moreWEASEL WORDS
Worker-centric A British Labour Party shadow trade secretary has said that when Labour gets into power, they’ll get on really well with the Biden administration...
Read moreHiroshima Day
Sydney Sydney – walking towards the Defence Department. Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Day 2023, was one of the best attended for years. The bombing of two cities...
Read moreUS shapes ICC to its agenda
Anyone supposing that the newfound enthusiasm in Washington for the International Criminal Court (ICC) would open the door for justice for Palestinians ought not to...
Read moreNicaragua: the path to independence
The years under neo-liberalism in Nicaragua saw trade union rights stripped away, collective bargaining agreements junked and, as trade union strength waned, living standards plummeted....
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