The Guardian • Issue #2141 • April 14, 2025
Issue #2141
Wage rise needed now!
A wage rise has become an urgent need for the great majority of Australian workers. Since its election, the Albanese government, in league with some...
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EDITORIAL
At time of writing, Trump’s imposition of tariffs around the world is getting a lot of attention. The tariffs are having a big effect on...
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“The American people, they expect action. And that is what they’re getting. And they’ll get the exact same attitude under a Peter Dutton government.” Michaelia...
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They Really Said That: Quotes from the Coalition
Peter Dutton: “The prime minister has been weak and missing in action. That’s why we find ourselves in the position we’re in today.” This was...
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DINGO
Increasingly patients visiting their local GP are being told, “sorry we don’t bulk-bill anymore, just can’t afford to keep the practice open if we do.”...
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Rally for public housing
On Saturday March 22 a rally was staged as part of the campaign to protest the NSW government’s lack of concern for low-income housing. Protesters...
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Op shop closures
Opportunity shops, or op shops, are closing across Queensland to the detriment of struggling families. In Caboolture, Moreton Bay, where I live, all five op...
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Brisbane and Moreton Bay Councils shut down homeless camps
Queensland is not the Sunshine State for the thousands who are homeless. In February 2025 the City of Moreton Bay, Australia’s third largest council, declared...
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Housing: don’t make it worse, warns charity
Major charity group Anglicare has responded to the recent budget reply speech by warning that two of the Dutton-led Opposition’s plans for housing could make...
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AUKUS, Trump, and the Indo-Pacific – an address by Vijay Prashad
The opportunity to listen to Vijay Prashad is one not to be missed, and in Sydney and on Zoom he wowed comrades and friends once...
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PEACE NOTES
At some level, everyone knows that military hardware is expensive. We know this because we hear gigantic figures quoted about it – like the $368...
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Tariffs blackmail will backfire
On 2 April, US president Donald Trump imposed sweeping, so-called “reciprocal tariffs” ranging from 10% to 50% on almost all nations based on the US’s...
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A tariff is a tax
A tariff is simply a tax imposed by a government on goods or services imported from another country. It is paid to the government by...
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Engels on protectionism
“Protection is at best an endless screw, and you never know when you have done with it. By protecting one industry, you directly or indirectly...
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Trump‘s existential threat
Trump is a performer. He knows how to whip up a crowd and win over a large section of the working class contrary to their...
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LETTERS
More to life than soccer Dear Comrade Editor, I welcome the sports coverage in the Guardian but wonder if the focus could be directed beyond...
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CPA travel advice: United States of America
OVERVIEW: DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA The United States, long mythologised for its amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties, has always offered...
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Leg Glance – The Yorkers of Shamar Joseph
There are some balls that are unplayable. Ask Travis Head, one of Australia’s most reliable middle order batsmen. He had scored a duck in the...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRAZIL: Thousands of Indigenous people set up camps in Brasilia to defend their ancestral land rights and demand greater respect for Amazonian ecosystems. The ‘Free...
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HALF THE SKY
Media makes invisible the role of Cuban women in maintaining the revolution – every day that the media tells lies about Cuba, its teachers and...
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