The Guardian • Issue #2123 • November 4, 2024
Issue #2123
Whose side are you on?
Twenty-seven workers died in the construction industry in 2023. Without the CFMEU that figure, in this spectacularly dangerous industry, would have been much higher. The...
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EDITORIAL
The Russian Revolution in 1917 changed forever our understanding of what ordinary men and women can – and did – achieve in building a nationalised,...
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Inflation: the workers’ burden
The RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia), the last relic of economic planning in Australia, ostensibly Australia’s central national bank, has a very limited range of...
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Media housing lies
Australian mainstream media has been sprouting the same nonsense on housing given by Master Builders’ Australia – that the current housing crisis is simply due...
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When the King comes knocking
There was only one line in the major media about King Charles III visiting an inner-city housing development in Sydney. The Minister for Housing Rose...
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DINGO
PM Anthony Albanese has rejected accusations from Beijing that his country is “plagued by systemic racism and hate crimes.” Beijing spoke out after an Australian...
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Queensland elections
An election contested based on who could be tougher on children, with an underlying appeal to racism. A strategic flip towards making abortion an issue,...
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Queensland’s right turn to Alabama
Years ago, I met US visitor to Queensland who said it was like being in Alabama. The 28 October LNP win has turned the Sunshine...
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Broken Hill storms report
Severe storms hit Broken Hill at midnight 16 October. Winds were over 130km/hour, and there were over 130,000 lightning strikes per hour for 24 hours....
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Housing crisis?
Engels wrote a pamphlet in 1872 titled The Housing Question. It was a polemic criticising ideas advanced by Pierre Joseph Proudhon, a French anarchist and...
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PEACE NOTES
“on the other side of the planet” That’s how a ‘political and international editor’ for Nine Entertainment described Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians recently. He...
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Israeli settlers, Lebanon and weaponising children’s literature
The Israeli settler movement has been looking to establish itself in southern Lebanon, after Israel clears the population. The Israeli military is planning to occupy...
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US navy vs the birds of Diego Garcia
Since the 1970s the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, under the responsibility of the US 7th Fleet, has been an important military asset in...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
GEORGIA: In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, fireworks marked the ruling party’s victory in the parliamentary elections on 26 October 2024. Voter turnout was 56...
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Palestinian land for sale in USA and Canada
Palestinian properties, seized in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, are being sold across the USA and Canada, in contravention of international laws. The...
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Israel’s war on aid: ‘Collective punishment’
The Israeli parliament has passed legislation designating UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East a terrorist organisation....
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HALF OF THE SKY
Abortion has been decriminalised in every state and territory of Australia after decades of intense struggle. Western Australia was the last states to do so...
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Israel’s attack on Lebanon: method in the madness
The clinical barbarism of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza and Lebanon demands to be understood. If it can’t, then we are simply witness to...
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