The Guardian • cost of living
Issue #2045
Sydney marches for International Working Women’s Day
Participants at this year’s rally came from all over to gather on the steps of Sydney’s Town Hall despite train network chaos. Women and their...
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Issue #2029
Anti-poverty protest – Adelaide
Poverty is about people struggling, and becoming sick, less employable and ultimately homeless, especially if survival on “jobseeker” is involved. These were the stories of...
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Issue #1999
Morrison government decisions have left the average worker $800 poorer
If you were left flabbergasted by the numbers at the supermarket checkout last week, you weren’t the only one. The cost of living has rocketed...
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Issue #2024
Multi-employer bargaining key to improving working conditions: ACOSS and ACTU
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has joined with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) to call on the Albanese government to implement...
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Issue #2003
May Day 2022: WORKERS DEMAND CHANGE!
Australian and international workers’ struggle is taking the demand for change to the ruling class who always put the weight of any crisis back onto...
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Issue #2014
RBA and ALP want workers to pay for the crisis
After decades of wage stagnation and increasing living costs, the Reserve Bank of Australia has told workers to tighten their belts and accept further real...
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Issue #2036
Build the fightback
Decades of privatisations, job cuts and wage suppression and more recently the cuts masked by measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, have taken a huge...
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Issue #2038
Record rent increases
Last year Australia recorded an overall increase in rents of 10.2 per cent, the biggest-ever rent increase recorded nationally. The cost of rent has risen...
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Issue #2024
“Put children before profit”
Tens of thousands of early childhood educators walked off the job across the country to take part in rallies and marches on 7th September. More...
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Issue #2050
Raise the rate raises the roof
So many different sources are speaking out against the Albanese government’s refusal to “raise the rate” – meaning increase Jobseeker, Commonwealth Rent Assistance, and related...
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Issue #2031
Class war budget
The budget, delivered on 25th October, is set in the context of a looming global recession, ongoing wars, rocketing prices, extreme weather events, famine, and...
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Issue #2039
DINGO
How to fund endless war? That is the question. That ‘tis better to grab workers’ retirement funds to build Australia’s military industrial complex and pour...
Read moreBudget alternative: For peace and genuine security
As the cost of living soars the number of working poor is on the rise and more and more families are turning to charities for...
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Issue #2022
CPA lunch at the Village Pickle
After many weeks of planning, organising, and discussion, the Brisbane branch gathered at the Village Pickle, a café in the country town of Nambour, north...
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Issue #2048
Action for jobs, pay, safety
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union members launched major rallies across Australia on Wednesday 5th April as anger mounts over serious issues facing the nation...
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Issue #2023
Jobs and Skills Summit: dangerous illusions for workers
Workers and their families are looking for real change – real wage rises, secure jobs, safe working conditions, with adequately funded and staffed health and...
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Issue #2039
We can’t afford support!
Results from the SANE Bridging the Gaps Survey shows the Federal government must listen to people who live with complex mental illness. A new survey...
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Issue #2014
Time for a wage rise
The cost-of-living crisis has not abated as households face further economic pressures with interest rates and inflation on the rise. Trade union militancy is on...
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Issue #2046
Budget must tackle housing crisis
Housing campaign Everybody’s Home says renters on the lowest incomes will still struggle to make ends meet with the federal government’s meagre rise in Centrelink...
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Issue #2050
Open letter to Albanese: Raise the rate
Politicians academics, business leaders, community advocates and other prominent Australians have joined in a rare display of unity to urge the Prime Minister to implement...
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Issue #2040
An unsustainable govt
In the February Monthly Essay, “Capitalism After the Crises”, Treasurer Jim Chalmers refers to “hard decisions” that “will accompany hard times ahead” and “the unsustainable...
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Issue #2038
Blow up the pokies
Australia has the highest per capita gambling losses in the world – more than double those of the USA. These losses come at a huge...
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Issue #2049
MAY DAY
The international working class continues to commemorate the struggles and gains achieved over 134 years since the first May Day commemoration in 1889 which remembered...
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Issue #2048
Inequality deepens
New research shows one million people in NSW are living in poverty. With Western Sydney going backwards while Eastern Sydney is improving, inequality across the...
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Issue #2052
Not a People’s Budget
Budgets involve a redistribution of wealth reflecting government priorities and serving class interests. The 2023-24 federal budget has clear priorities. The big winners are the...
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Issue #2050
Fight back!
May Day is just eight days away from the federal budget. All we hear from Treasurer Jim Chalmers are attempts to soften up the electorate...
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Issue #2043
INTEREST RATE TIME BOMB
Two thirds of households face a hit as rising interest rates push up mortgage payments and drive up their rent. At the same time household...
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