Issue #2134

The Guardian • Issue #2134 • February 24, 2025

Albanese and Dutton. Issue #2134

TWO-PARTY POWER GRAB

In a move reflecting the common ground in policies between the government and Coalition, and to sideline the Greens and independents, the Albanese Labor government...

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Issue #2134

EDITORIAL

Division has been in the news again. The idea has been used as an attack line for some time. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton made a...

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floods Issue #2134

Labor’s big fail

Labor has been in office for almost three years. It has introduced a number of progressive reforms, but in the lead-up to the federal elections...

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Issue #2134

‘It starts with words’

Talaat Sehia is a chef at Cairo Takeaway, a restaurant on Enmore Road in Sydney’s inner west. Talaat was working on an early Wednesday afternoon...

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DINGO

Australian soccer star Samantha Kerr has been found not guilty of racially harassing a London policeman after calling him “stupid and white” during an incident...

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Peter Dutton Issue #2134

Peter Dutton is super popular

The Murdoch Press and other conservative media outlets have been trying their best to convince Australians that Peter Dutton is all the rage. Anytime a...

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PEACE NOTES Issue #2134

PEACE NOTES

There’s an understandable, but mistaken tendency to treat the subject of war and peace as optional extras, as not the main game. As a topic,...

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pollution Issue #2134

Monopolies destroying the planet

Food monopolies are intensifying agricultural production in ways that both produce more emissions and which leave us vulnerable to climate impacts by increased use of...

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Auschwitz Issue #2134

Remembering the Soviet victims of Auschwitz and other death camps

Eighty years ago Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and labour camps. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum website gives a history of Poles and Jews killed at...

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Quill and ink . Issue #2134

LETTERS

Reform and Opening Up Comrade Editor A small note on the recent editorial on China: I note that the Editorial published 10 February places China’s...

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Issue #2134

Saudi Arabian Oil Policy and the Iran-Iraq War

With US President Donald Trump promising to produce cheap global oil, this is a useful study that shows why the United States has tried, but...

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A visit to Auschwitz Birkenau, February 2025

A piece in a recent issue of the Guardian (10 February 2025) examined the exploitation through slave labour by the Nazi occupiers of Poland during...

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Global briefs Issue #2134

GLOBAL BRIEFS

BRITAIN: Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London to protest US President Trump’s proposal to “take over”the Gaza Strip. The placards and banners in...

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Stockpiling of bauxite ore – a rock with a relatively high aluminium content. Issue #2134

Aluminium, and beyond

When Trump launched his trade war, some nations responded with threats of retaliation. Others sought to find ways to ‘deal ‘with the most powerful economy...

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Half the Sky column logo Issue #2134

HALF THE SKY

Women and children are already dying as a result of the Musk/Trump administration shutdown of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). According to Abby...

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Displaced women and children escaping conflict and drought, Somalia. Issue #2134

Imperialism and sub-Saharan Africa

There are currently 45 million displaced people in sub-Saharan Africa. That is 45 per cent of the total of displaced people on the planet. Lives...

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