The Guardian • Issue #2208 • September 28, 2026
Issue #2208
REJECT THE RACISTS
“Housing and the housing shortage we have is not caused by migrants,” Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in an address to the National Press...
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EDITORIAL
Overall, unemployment is a terrible thing. Nobody likes it. In the short term unemployment means frustration, financial pain, and embarrassment. Long term unemployment wastes human...
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Quote of the Week
“As one of the world’s largest gas and coal exporters, Australia holds its share of responsibility for the damage that will be done.” Royce Kurmelovs,...
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Commonwealth Bank takes the axe to hundreds more jobs
Around 230 already weary Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) workers are facing a bleak Christmas after learning that their jobs will be gone by year’s...
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Tasmanian health workers take action
Public sector nurses are fighting for a fair deal with decent wages and conditions and safer staffing levels. Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) member...
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Hume Mayor fails to lead by example
The mayor of Melbourne’s Hume City Council, Carly Moore, has put out a statement calling on the Australian Services Union to end industrial action and...
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Sydney Town Hall CPA action
On the international Day of Peace on 20 September, members of the Communist Party of Australia sold Guardians and stood strong against AUKUS and for...
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Mineworkers rally in Mudgee
Glencore has flooded its Ulan Underground mine with out-of-town contractors while creating barely any new secure, permanent jobs for the Mudgee community. Figures obtained by...
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Bragg attempts to bring back failed policies
The Australian Council of Trade Unions says that Shadow Housing Minister Andrew Bragg has returned to old, failed Coalition policy by suggesting that workers should...
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DINGO
Arts Centre Melbourne workers voted to take a second protected 24-hour stop work action, after the first 24-hour stop work action on 11 September saw...
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WA Labor shields arms dealers
The WA Cook Labor government has rammed the Land Forces Event (Special Powers) Act 2026 (WA) through the Western Australian Parliament, granting police unprecedented powers...
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Renters win as union fights off 11% rent increase
Members of the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU) in Melbourne’s Thornbury have successfully fought off their landlord’s attempt to increase their rent by 11%, through...
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Queensland’s Crisafulli charges backwards
The Crisafulli LNP government is critical of the Labor government that came before it, calling Labor’s electric bus program a “half-baked plan” and chiding Labor...
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NSW Premier Chris Minns referred to police watchdog
New South Wales Greens MLC Sue Higginson has referred NSW premier Chris Minns to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), as she considers the NSW...
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Labor fails on genocide
Amnesty International Australia has condemned the failure of the Australian government to support steps towards legal limits on Australian weapons, investments and trade being used...
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Adelaide comrades clean up
Comrades from the Communist Party of Australia’s Central Adelaide branch took part in a rubbish pick up at Christies Creek near the Emu Hotel on...
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Cellebrite gets government blessing to share your phone
Returning from an extended stay in Bali this July, Peter* was stopped by Australian Border Force (ABF) officials at Perth Airport. After searching his bag,...
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PEACE NOTES
One thing about the carbon emissions that most people don’t realise is this: they’re massively under-counted. We know this because we know that the carbon...
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Cross-party push to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14
Liberal, Independent, and Greens Senators have united to call for the Commonwealth to mandate a minimum age of criminal responsibility across the country, even as...
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Nicolás Maduro is innocent
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is innocent. This is a statement of law and fact. Maduro has not been convicted of any crime. He has pleaded...
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LETTERS
Let’s not celebrate Dolly too much Dolly Parton supported the George W Bush “War on Terror” which led to the massacre of innocent Iraqis, destabilisation...
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News Quiz
Have you been paying attention? How many can you answer without looking it up? Answers here. 1. Albo says he likes the ‘rules-based order,’ but...
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September 11 Chile coup commemoration marred by violence
The commemoration of the victims of the 11 September Coup in Chile has been marred by state violence. The important day commemorates the violent overthrow...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: NATO intelligence services found no evidence of Russian involvement in a recent drone incident at Leipzig Airport and informed their authorities accordingly, the Russian...
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US air monitors disappearing
One way to deal with a problem, not an effective one, is to simply look away. Over recent decades, federal funding for public air monitoring...
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WEASEL WORDS
Access to Like ‘engage with,’ ‘have access to’ is a great word for implying that something is happening, where really nothing is going on. Veteran...
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Macklemore’s million-dollar challenge
Macklemore pledged his entire net earnings from Ed Sheeran’s tour to six organisations supporting Palestinians. His announcement placed immediate pressure on Sheeran and billionaire stadium...
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News Quiz Answers
1. Illegal West Bank settlements 2. Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran’s son 3. Denmark 4. Five – four opening acts and his live touring...
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