The Guardian • Issue #2070 • September 18, 2023
THE BIG RIP-OFF
In the face of the big rip-off of Australian workers, the Albanese government’s attempted makeover of the industrial relations system continued on 4th September, when...
Read moreSpeeding up
Things are speeding up. Climate change has gone from causing the cliched reaction ‘I’m worried about my grandchildren,’ to ‘I worry about my children,’ to...
Read moreVote YES, work for YES
There’s a lot of running down the YES case for the Voice to Parliament lately. Nine newspapers have given one Aboriginal woman who’s a ‘No’...
Read moreAntarctic funding cuts
Almost half of the staff in the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) have signed an open letter calling on the Department of Climate Change, Environment, Energy...
Read moreDINGO
As temperatures climb, and heatwaves become more common, it’s worth remembering that unions achieve and enforce protection against heat. As a comrade in the Rail...
Read moreChile 11 September
MELBOURNE: There were tears, poetry, song, and many heartfelt speeches this week at a gathering to pay tribute to all those who suffered in the...
Read moreGREEN NOTES
The last thing we need Anna Pha Oceans are increasingly being seen as tools against global warming while offering tremendous business opportunities through the use...
Read moreCentre-left win in Guatemala
Nearly seventy years after the CIA-backed coup in 1954, the Left has finally won the presidency in Guatemala. Bernardo Arévalo, of the centre-left Movimiento Semilla...
Read moreDPRK celebrates 75 years of independence, self-reliance and peace
On 9th September the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) celebrated 75 years since its founding under Kim Il Sung, the general secretary of the...
Read moreHALF THE SKY
Will Labor’s bill help working women? E Lennon Workplace relations minister, Tony Burke, has tabled a bill aimed at tackling several issues faced by workers...
Read moreNuclear subs challenge trains 10-year-old children for war
It’s time for education ministers across the country to show leadership and protect our children from vested interests and pro-war propaganda. On 19th June, the...
Read moreThe politics of Boots Riley’s ‘I’m a Virgo’
Boots Riley’s Amazon Prime Video series I’m A Virgo has naturally been cast as a coming-of-age story. It is, of course, a story about an...
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