The Guardian • Issue #2147 • June 2, 2025
Issue #2147
Floods: the cost of inaction
Five lives were lost and an estimated 10,000 properties destroyed or damaged by the recent record-breaking torrential downpour along the east coast of NSW. Devastated...
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EDITORIAL
What’s housing for? Is it for: a) making yourself wealthy? b) Making someone else wealthy? c) Living in? This sounds like a silly question, but...
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National Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week
Two very important Indigenous events are being celebrated in Australia. The 26 May marks the annual National Sorry Day, which commemorates the Stolen Generations of...
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Canberra hits the dance floor for Cuba
The Canberra ACFS (Australia-Cuba Friendship Society) staged a Peña (musical get-together) on Saturday 24 May. It was a fun evening that really took off. Festivities...
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Climate change and mental health
Australia is experiencing more floods, droughts and bushfires as climate change continues to gather pace. The findings of scientific studies reaffirm the interplay between resources,...
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Not a trade deal
The Albanese government is looking to enter a trade agreement spanning Pacific and European countries called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. But...
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Homelessness in Moreton Bay and the Sunshine Coast
Human rights lawyers are challenging the City of Moreton Bay Council in northern Brisbane over the eviction and destruction of homeless camps on public land....
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DINGO
The Queensland government has ordered coal seam gas company QGC to clean up a significant erosion incident caused by the company’s coal seam gas wells...
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NATO’s deathly embrace
As Australian arms manufacturers supply weapons to the fascist regimes in Israel and Ukraine the Albanese government is moving to bring Australia into the deathly...
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NSW: Minns public servants dodge scrutiny
A caravan filled with explosives and a note listing Jewish-owned properties turned out to be a staged hoax. Now a parliamentary inquiry into the affair...
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Victoria’s budget slammed for ‘fiscal injustice and bad policy’
The Victorian government is celebrating a Budget they say is “Focused On What Matters Most,” but from the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service’s (VALS) point of...
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CPA-DFLP bilateral meeting
Representatives of the International Department of Communist Party of Australia, CPA, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, held a bilateral meeting...
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Penny Wong on the back foot
In a demonstration of Pacific solidarity, Penny Wong has returned to the scene of her maiden trip as foreign minister while making the first trip...
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PEACE NOTES
Say what you like about war, at least it’s good for the economy, right? Wrong, but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. War and...
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Disaster Nationalism: the downfall of liberal civilisation
People like to bully and dominate – at least many do. Does this mean that fascism is something that inevitably emerges from human nature? It...
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Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump squandered his father’s fortune and created the illusion of success
Buettner and Craig, two New York Times investigative journalists, reveal how the 45th and 47th US president, Donald Trump, was given over US$400 million, lost...
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An Ode to Latrell Mitchell
Latrell Mitchell is a controversial figure in the NRL and has had several run ins with the judiciary of the game. However, he is undeniably...
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International Meeting in Solidarity with Cuba, anti-imperialism and against the resurgence of fascism
After celebrating May Day in Revolution Square, international delegates from 269 organisations representing 39 countries gathered to show their support to the Cuban people, the...
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We must support progressive forces in Palestine
The United States of America is a genocidal country. It’s still in the grip of white supremacism. More and more the forces of resistance in...
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The war in Gaza at a glance
A lot of media outlets like to ‘both-sides’ Israel’s assault on Palestinians, calling it a ‘conflict’ or an ‘Israel-Gaza’ war. For the both-sides fans out...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
CUBA has reaffirmed its commitment to international solidarity on multiple fronts in the face of growing aggression from the US. In a meeting at the...
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Trump uses ‘sliver’ to get past the law
President Donald Trump has turned over to the Department of Defence the Roosevelt Reservation to be used as a military base. This sliver of federal...
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HALF THE SKY
‘Disposable people’ Tabitha Lean is a Gunditjmara woman and abolitionist from South Australia who has been criminalised by the so-called ‘justice’ system. Tabitha spoke at...
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Israel’s final solution for Gaza
In early May, the security cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met and agreed that Israel would ‘capture’ Gaza and remove its Palestinian population...
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