The Guardian • Issue #2130 • January 27, 2025
Issue #2130
The ceasefire: hopes and aspirations must be fought for
There were images of intense jubilation on what were once the streets of Gaza when news first emerged that a ceasefire in Gaza might be...
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EDITORIAL
The inferno that has ravaged large spans of urban areas in Los Angeles, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, and taking with it more than...
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Deaths in custody continue to rise
Since the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody reported in 1991, there have been 582 Aboriginal deaths in custody. Most of the Commission’s 339 recommendations...
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Health care alliance formed
Nine of the nation’s largest nursing and midwifery organisations have formed an Alliance to campaign for significant and meaningful primary health care reform. The Alliance...
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Despicable bank
In a truly despicable move, the Bank of Queensland has used the cover of summer to announce the closure of a whopping 14 formerly owner-managed...
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DINGO
“LA 2028 will be the Olympic version of the Hunger Games,” says Dr Tom Heenan, who lectures in sport, global and Australian studies at Monash...
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Mining corpsí colonial arrogance
“Rio-Glencore merger would create a copper powerhouse” ran a headline in the Sydney Morning Herald on 17 January, trumpeting yet another triumph in the drive...
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Partners in US aggression
The US ended the Second World War by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the war in the Pacific was all but finished....
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In Australia it’s a tale of two cities
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” When Dickens wrote those words he was talking of hope and of despair....
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Childcare’s corporate cowboys
“Childcare entrepreneur’s $22m Noosa waterfront mansion” Financial Review headline The policies of deregulation and privatisation have exposed all aspects of life to exploitation for profit....
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PEACE NOTES
AUKUS, the euphemistically called ‘security partnership’ between Australia, the US, and the UK, is sold to the public as promoting “a free and open Indo-Pacific...
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LETTERS
West Papua: The Jakarta method Before the US – especially the CIA – meddled in the situation, the Dutch government had started to give the...
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Slow Horses
Do you like a spy story? More specifically, do you like a British spy story? Don’t mind class issues in your face? Step right up,...
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Demonstrations against Trump’s threat to take Panama Canal
On 23 December 2024, US president-elect Donald Trump threatened to take back the Panama Canal, in a post on his Truth Social platform, because of...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
MYANMAR: Myanmar’s government and a major ethnic rebel group have signed a formal ceasefire agreement. The new ceasefire was brokered by China and came into...
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HALF OF THE SKY
One of the key policy areas of South Korea’s Minjung Party (translated as “Progressive Party”) is fighting for women’s rights, feminism, and the rights of...
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Capitalism, AI, and class
The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the face of the world. Like all transformations and ‘revolutions’ in society that capitalism has wrought, AI...
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