The Guardian • Issue #2134 • February 24, 2025
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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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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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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‘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 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
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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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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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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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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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
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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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
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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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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