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Issue #2036
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More than a thousand refugees and their supporters rallied outside Parliament House in Canberra on 29th November to demand permanent visas for refugees. Priya Nadesalingam,...
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Issue #2016
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At its Jobs and Skills Summit in September, the federal government will respond to staff shortages in nursing and aged care with a plan to...
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Issue #2020
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Banks and insurance companies raked in billions according to financial year end of interim results, with CEO pay increasing by tens of millions of dollars....
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Issue #2024
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The cause of the Ukraine conflict is the fact that the presence of NATO and US bases, military forces, and nuclear missile systems put Russia’s...
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Issue #2034
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Scott Morrison’s secret multiple portfolios has nothing on the dual role of PM Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles as salesmen/lobbyists for the arms manufacturers....
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Issue #2035
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The latest cost estimate for taxpayers of Australia’s pending nuclear submarines at more than $170 billion. Don’t be surprised when Australia’s supply of weaponry to...
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Issue #2026
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Memo to Deputy Sheriff Albanese: In his address to the UN General Assembly last week, Manasseh Sogavare, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, recalled that...
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Issue #2013
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The federal Treasurer delivered an address to Treasury staff last week, informing them that the government would oppose wage claims and use available legislation to...
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Issue #2025
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Well may we say God Save the Queen […] Just two instances, from the time she first sat on the throne in 1952, dutiful representative...
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Issue #2029
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Previously, this column mentioned the role of labour parties and social democracy as enablers to fascism. Against Fascism and War, Georgi Dimitrov’s report to the...
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Issue #2031
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The wholesale theft from Optus and Medibank of the personal information of their customers by hackers brings forth a quote from Karl Marx: “Finally, there...
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Issue #2033
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In a massive escalation of the simmering industrial conflict being waged by Svitzer Towage’s Australian management against local tugboat crew, the company gave notice that...
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Issue #2037
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Hundreds of refugees previously held by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea have written to the Home Affairs and Immigration Minister requesting urgent action...
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Issue #2038
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As the Albanese government pours billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money into fuelling the war in Ukraine it is offering the fossil fuel miners $500...
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Issue #2014
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While the Prime Minister was talking trade deals with the European Commission, who should pop up but Simon Crean, former ACTU President and erstwhile leader...
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Issue #2022
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In a sign of widespread frustration, nurses and that midwives in NSW took 24-hour strike action on the 1st September over their demands for safe...
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Issue #2027
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Last week, “Dingo” reported on Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare’s address to the UN General Assembly, a voice of the Pacific Islands People in the...
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Issue #2030
The mainstream media has excised coverage of Israel’s crimes in the West Bank and Gaza. While there is no end to the noise from the...
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Issue #2061
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Activists descended on the offices and facilities of global weapons giant Thales last week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Biak massacre in West...
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Issue #2062
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The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has welcomed the passage of the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting worker entitlements) Bill 2023. The Bill, which was...
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Issue #2010
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On 3rd June 1992 the High Court of Australia recognised that a group of Torres Strait Islanders, led by Eddie Mabo, held ownership of Mer...
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Issue #2011
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A historical perspective brings into sharper focus US imperialism’s strategies in the Asia-Pacific since WW2. The victory over fascism – German Nazism and Japanese militarism,...
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Issue #2089
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Dingo has noted previously the big noise in the mass media about the anti-Russian sanctions of the US and the European Union over the operation...
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Issue #2048
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The Victorian government has been urged to list the fat-tailed dunnart as vulnerable, with the last surviving small marsupial of the state’s volcanic plains under...
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Issue #2049
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The latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report into mesothelioma was released today. Mesothelioma is an aggressive form of cancer in the mesothelium –...
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Issue #2052
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Courtesy of the Morning Star comes news that imprisoned journalist Julian Assange has written to Charles Windsor inviting him to visit him in His Majesty’s...
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Issue #2063
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The union movement extended its thoughts to the loved ones of the food delivery rider who tragically lost his life in Sydney last week working...
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Issue #2039
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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...
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Issue #2040
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“Exhausted,” “struggling to cope,” “let down,” “dangerous,” and “overwhelmed” is how nurses have described working conditions at the prestigious St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Darlinghurst...
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Issue #2041
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The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) says the release of the new National Cultural Policy, Revive, is a major show of faith in the...
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Issue #2046
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The construction union, the CFMEU, has urged the Albanese government to ramp up its ambition on the Housing Australia Future Fund, which needs more investment...
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Issue #2096
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This week Dingo focuses on the crime of the 21st century. To throw light on the blackout of news by the mainstream media of Israel’s...
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Issue #2101
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Following on from last week’s target of US wars of aggression and intervention beginning from the end of WW2, Italy, this week, Greece 1947-49: The...
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Issue #2112
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This week’s target of US aggression is the final one, Vietnam, 1950-73: The slippery slope for the US began by siding with the French, the...
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Issue #2059
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The Retail Supply Chain Alliance – a coalition of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, the Australian Workers’ Union, and the Transport Workers’ Union...
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Issue #2060
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The Queensland Palaszczuk government’s refusal to back down over its deeply unpopular approval of Blue Energy’s Central Queensland gasfield shows it cares neither for communities,...
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Issue #2064
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A new political force uniting left and progressive parties and other organisations with a clear pro-people agenda is needed urgently. The Communist Party is convinced...
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Issue #2066
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Gambling harm is profound. It is not just financial, it is also social. It impacts mental health, leads to other health issues, and too often...
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Issue #2092
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Who is the target of the AUKUS alliance? The answer is explicit in all the writing on the subject and what all the leaders of...
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Issue #2099
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The engine of US foreign policy has been fuelled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but by the necessity to serve other...
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Issue #2102
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This week’s target of US aggression and interventions since the end of WW2 is the Philippines 1945-53: The US military fought against leftist forces (Huks)...
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Issue #2114
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When the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was at its height, a global blockade was implemented, to make South Africa’s isolation tangible and clear....
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Issue #2044
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ABC journalists have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking industrial action as they push for a fair deal from management. Close to 90 per cent...
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Issue #2065
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Some readers might remember the Michael Moore show Sicko about the US for-profit health system, where he campaigned for a patient to have a life-saving...
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Issue #2068
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Trade union federations in the EU have called for affiliates to support French trade unionists who are being prosecuted for taking collective action during recent...
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Issue #2069
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The Climate Council has labelled the decision to approve an extension to the Gregory Crinum coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin until 2073 as “stunning...
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Issue #2071
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Mining transnational BHP, at one time known under the jolly capitalist moniker of The Big Australian, has admitted to deducting annual leave from staff entitlements...
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Issue #2078
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“Violence against women is a national crisis,” says Kate Fitz-Gibbon from Monash University’s Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. “These deaths represent the tip of...
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Issue #2094
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The Federation of the Australian states in 1901 was the first step away from British colonial control. However, imperialist interests continue to dominate Australian politics...
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Issue #2053
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Oakey Coal Action Alliance, which is committed to saving the groundwater relied on by Darling Downs farmers in Queensland from the New Acland coal mine,...
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Issue #2054
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It is timely to revisit the cause of the conflict in Ukraine. The issue behind the strife in Ukraine is the fact that the presence...
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Issue #2056
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British PM Rishi Sunak has announced that two further barges will house around 1000 asylum-seekers off Britain’s coast. In a speech in Dover, Kent, Sunak...
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Issue #2077
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Climate action group Lock the Gate Alliance has accused the NSW Minns government of breaking an election promise by allowing BHP’s planned Mt Arthur expansion...
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Issue #2079
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Divisions emerge: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, like number of other western leaders, is turning a blind eye to Israel’s war crimes in...
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Issue #2086
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Lithuania, claiming a threat from Russia, is ramping up military spending. “Everything we have we threw into Ukraine so that they will be able to...
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Issue #2091
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As the body count in Gaza and the West Bank continues to rise after hitting 30,000, Richard Marles and Penny Wong claim that Australia is...
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Issue #2103
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This week’s target of US aggression and interventions since the end of WW2 is South Korea 1945-53: After World War II, the United States suppressed...
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Issue #2110
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This week’s target of US interventions and aggression is Indonesia 1957-58: President Sukarno, like Egypt’s Abdel Nasser, was the kind of Third World leader the...
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Issue #2111
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This week’s historic target of US aggression is British Guyana, 1953-64: For 11 years Britain and the United States went to great lengths to prevent...
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Issue #2058
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Forest fire warnings have been issued in northern European countries as the “high risk” of summer wildfire season spreads up the continent. A lack of...
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Issue #2067
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The increasing concentration of wealth and power among mega-corporations, facilitated in no small part by rigged rules of the global economy, is undermining democracy, economic...
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Issue #2074
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When the Nazis needed to put their despatch of people to concentration camps on a more efficient basis, whom did they turn to? Their good...
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Issue #2076
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Thick smoke enveloped extensive areas of the Brazilian Amazon as the region grapples with a surge in wildfires and a historic drought. In Manaus, a...
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Issue #2087
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Dingo has received a letter from Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, [covered in Guardian #2086 on 5 February 2024 in ‘Black Saturday survivors call for...
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Issue #2098
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Paramilitarised Powers to intervene in civilian public order management were given to the Australian Defence Force to be used during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, although...
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Issue #2104
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This week’s target for intervention by US imperialism post-WW2 is Albania 1949-53: US and Britain tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the communist government and install one...
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Issue #2108
This week’s target of US interventions and aggression since the end of WW2 is Guatemala 1953-1990s: A CIA-organised coup overthrew the democratically elected and progressive...
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Issue #2109
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This week’s target of US aggression since the end of WW2 is the Middle East 1956-58: The Eisenhower Doctrine stated that the United States was...
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Issue #2142
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Further on the article about Peter Dutton and the police terror and protest on Palm Island (Guardian 31 March). When a leader of the protests...
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Issue #2051
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This International Day of Mourning, the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) remembers those who have lost their life at work and renews calls for...
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Issue #2080
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Bunnings will stop selling engineered stone from the end of this year after succumbing to pressure from construction workers. The CFMEU has been urging the...
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Issue #2085
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Among the many aspects of Israel’s aggression against the Palestinians is the claim by Israel that resistance forces such as Hamas will not acknowledge Israel’s...
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Issue #2093
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In the 18th century, there was joy among civilised people because thought had finally broken free of the cant of religion. It was hailed as...
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Issue #2097
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The government of Papua New Guinea continues to reject Australia’s attempt to force it to abandon its relations with China. Twenty years ago, the then...
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Issue #2105
This week’s US imperialist intervention is Germany 1950s: The CIA orchestrated a wide-ranging campaign of sabotage, terrorism, and psychological warfare against the German Democratic Republic...
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Issue #2107
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In 1950 when the US war in Korea was only one month old, US News & World Report happily told its business readers “It’s really...
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Issue #2057
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A major survey conducted by McKell, the Transport Workers Union and TEACHO sheds light on the harsh reality faced by food delivery, rideshare, and AmazonFlex...
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Issue #2073
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Karl Marx exposed the real meaning of “free trade” in 1848. “What is free trade under the present condition of society?” he asked. “It is...
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Issue #2088
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Unpaid overtime isn’t going away any time soon. Health and care service workers do an average 28 hours unpaid care work at home and live...
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Issue #2090
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In the 18th century, there was joy among civilised people because thought had finally broken free of the cant of religion. It was hailed as...
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Issue #2100
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As promised last week Dingo will begin each Bytes with one of the targets of US wars of aggression and intervention beginning from the end...
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Issue #2125
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ExxonMobil is using Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in an Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) to sue the Netherlands over the early shutdown of gas production in...
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Issue #2135
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The grip of the dead hand of colonialism continues to be broken. Ivory Coast troops have taken over the last remaining French army base in...
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Issue #2055
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Child advocacy group, SHINE for Kids, has released distressing findings of a national survey which reveals the suffering and compounding disadvantages experienced by the voiceless...
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Issue #2072
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The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) says it is deeply concerned by reports regarding the conduct of the Secretary of the Home Affairs Department,...
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Issue #2084
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The current attack on ABC radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf – for referencing the Palestinians – is being conducted by bullying lawyers for the Israel lobby....
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Issue #2106
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This week’s target for intervention by US imperialism post-WW2 is Iran 1953: Prime Minister Mossadegh was overthrown in a joint US and British operation. Mossadegh...
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Issue #2113
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The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed new legislation which will deliver much-needed support payments for student nurses and...
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Issue #2115
Thousands of public sector nurses and midwives across NSW stopped work for one hour last week, as they ramped up their fight for a 15...
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Issue #2128
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In 1834 the six Tolpuddle Martyrs were transported from Britain to Australia for the ‘crime’ of attempting to form a trade union. However, the idea...
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Issue #2129
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It could be tempting to treat Elon Musk’s provocations as the attention-seeking of a petulant plutocrat who was born into the wealth of his father’s...
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Issue #2130
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“LA 2028 will be the Olympic version of the Hunger Games,” says Dr Tom Heenan, who lectures in sport, global and Australian studies at Monash...
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Issue #2175
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The Maritime Union of Australia and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have firmly and unequivocally stated their opposition to the US military invasion carried...
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Issue #2197
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Councils from every State and Territory have united with unions representing the entire Local Government sector to warn the Federal Parliament of a looming financial...
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Issue #2081
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Lock the Gate Alliance and Central Queensland conservationists have condemned the recommendation that Whitehaven’s Winchester South mega coal mine should be approved. The project will...
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Issue #2123
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PM Anthony Albanese has rejected accusations from Beijing that his country is “plagued by systemic racism and hate crimes.” Beijing spoke out after an Australian...
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Issue #2134
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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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Issue #2143
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In Britain, PM Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to silence support for Palestine using police terror tactics are backfiring, the producer of a new documentary exposing...
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Issue #2147
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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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Issue #2187
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Pacific governments and civil society have come together in Vanuatu as part of a key regional meeting ahead of the landmark First International Conference for...
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Issue #2075
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Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows almost 40 per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds reported experiencing a mental health disorder within the past...
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Issue #2136
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The Climate Change Authority’s latest report confirms the risks of delaying a clean energy future in favour of nuclear power will lead to higher emissions...
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Issue #2157
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NAZI to NATO. The following is a list of members of Hitler’s Nazi regime who went on to become prominent in NATO, imperialism’s nuclear military...
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Issue #2165
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The foreign ministers of North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – DPRK) and China have agreed to deepen bilateral ties and resist hegemonism or...
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Issue #2176
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The following appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 15 January: “Australians for Humanity – Demand that the invitation to the President of Israel to...
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Issue #2182
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The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has condemned Searoad Ferries for boasting about new wharf investments while refusing to address serious safety failures affecting ferry...
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Issue #2185
Getting around The Finance Sector Union (FSU) is calling on banks and financial institutions to immediately suspend mandatory office attendance requirements, as rising fuel costs...
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Issue #2194
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In an Australian first, the Federal Court last month accepted an application by a UN Special Rapporteur to make submissions in the Australian Conservation Foundation’s...
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Issue #2195
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In response to Environment Minister Chris Bowen’s opening address at the Bonn Climate Change Conference, also called SB64, Shiva Gounden, Head of Pacific at Greenpeace...
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Issue #2118
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Senator Lidia Thorpe: “I just successfully passed a motion in the Senate to make the Attorney-General provide quarterly reports to the Senate about deaths in...
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Issue #2121
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NATO has begun nuclear war drills over western Europe. Exercise Steadfast Noon tests the nuclear capability of non-nuclear weapons states under the US’s “nuclear umbrella,”...
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Issue #2132
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What does the US get out of the AUKUS war-making deal? On the promise of eight nuclear submarines that are to be given to Australia...
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Issue #2158
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Israel and US-backed food distribution centres in Gaza are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation” that must be shut down, a medical NGO working on...
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Issue #2160
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The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) has welcomed the acknowledgment by technology companies of the rights of Australia’s media and creative workforce and willingness...
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Issue #2179
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The federal government gave the green light to more than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat destruction last year, making it the worst 12-month period...
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Issue #2180
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The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) looks forward to welcoming 3,200 new graduate nurses and midwives into the state’s public health system this year,...
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Issue #2183
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DFAT travel advice regarding Iran says, “We continue to advise do not travel to Iran and leave Iran as soon as possible … .” But last...
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Issue #2189
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The United Workers Union says the announcement that G8 Education will close approximately 40 childcare centres across Australia is deeply concerning for workers, families and...
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Issue #2190
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The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) says it is aware of a recent ABC report which exposed ‘Aussie Gigs’ as a sham booking agency...
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Issue #2198
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The federal government is being urged to respond to a feasibility study on options to limit unhealthy food marketing, as new Australian Institute of Health...
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Issue #2119
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United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has vented his frustration at the security council’s failure to end wars in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and the Middle East....
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Issue #2122
A UN target to protect and restore 30 per cent of nature by 2030 will not be achieved in ocean environments until 2107 on current...
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Issue #2131
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The United Workers’ Union (UWU) declares that “Climate change is union business.” The union notes that workers in Australia are on the frontlines of the...
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Issue #2146
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Just in case you thought that there are areas too remote to be affected by climate change, a key climate conference in Nepal has recently...
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Issue #2149
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Communist mayor Annie Powell has been celebrated in Wales with a blue plaque in her honour in the Rhondda Valley. Rhondda Cynon Taf Mayor Councillor...
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Issue #2155
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The Mining and Energy Union says Victoria’s energy workers and the wider population deserve a frank and realistic assessment of the future of state’s energy...
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Issue #2162
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Modelling used by the Business Council of Australia to claim a strong 2035 target would cost billions, lacks credibility, the Australian Conservation Foundation warns. The...
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Issue #2163
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The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is dismayed by a decision by Melbourne University Publishing to axe one of the nation’s longest-running literary journals, Meanjin....
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Issue #2167
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600,000 people recently took to the streets of London for Palestine. A reassertion of solidarity with a people facing genocide. A rebuke to PM Keir...
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Issue #2168
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The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) has joined with colleagues in Australia and Timor-Leste to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ‘Balibo Five.’ Greg...
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Issue #2172
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In South Australia, more than 94 per cent of low-paid health support and disability support workers have voted to accept a historic wages deal from...
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Issue #2173
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ABC offer ‘insulting’ Staff at the ABC have voted to reject management’s insulting enterprise agreement offer, which sought to undermine previous wins, threaten to stall...
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Issue #2174
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The Community and Public Sector Union calls reports of potential significant cuts to Australian Public Service agency budgets “extremely concerning.” The Albanese government was re-elected...
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Issue #2177
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Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) members have condemned the vicious and specious attacks on cartoonist member Cathy Wilcox, and call on Nine Entertainment to...
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Issue #2181
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“Barbarism is not potent enough to describe this depravity,” said Jason Hickel, an eco-socialist activist and commentator. Hickel was referring to the brutal murder by...
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Issue #2196
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One in 70 people worldwide is forcibly displaced, according to a damning new report released today by the United Nations. The UN High Commissioner for...
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Issue #2116
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“Free trade” is pushed by the big corporations because it permits them to undercut domestic manufacturers or growers, to drive them out of business or...
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Issue #2124
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“We have a health system that is universal, but with that comes an obligation for Australians to contribute. We have an obligation to care for...
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Issue #2153
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Australian unions have won the right for thousands of workers employed in McDonald’s fast-food outlets to bargain together to improve their pay and conditions. A...
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Issue #2156
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On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet, with the support of the United States, led a coup d’etat against the democratically elected government of socialist...
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Issue #2186
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The Health Services Union (HSU) is calling on governments and employers to deliver immediate, targeted relief for health, aged care and disability workers during Australia’s...
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Issue #2191
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The Greens have condemned the Albanese government plan to cut $38 billion from the NDIS, removing support from 160,000 people while increasing defence spending on...
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Issue #2193
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Early childhood educators across the nation will walk off the job in mid-July after the Albanese government failed to provide ongoing funding for their 15...
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Issue #2203
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Rights groups have accused Israel of carrying out a massive operation to crush, mix, and transport millions of tonnes of rubble out of the Gaza...
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Issue #2120
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A word on the “drug trade.” The trade in illicit drugs is big business – very big business. It is carried on by a combination...
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Issue #2127
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A new draft of a deal on cash to adapt to climate change released at the United Nations climate summit (COP29) “has angered” developing nations....
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Issue #2137
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Palestine’s population is again on the verge of starvation following a week-long Israeli blockade which prevented the entry of aid shipments to Gaza. Hamas spokesman...
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Issue #2138
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A survey of 1,011 people across Australia has found half of respondents are going without food, medication and other essentials to try to pay their...
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Issue #2139
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Environmental activist group Greenpeace International has been ordered to pay more than $660 million (US) in damages to a pipeline company by a US court....
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Issue #2140
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Temu Trump or Mini Musk? Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been accused of being ‘Temu Trump’ with various attempts to come across as Trump-lite before...
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Issue #2141
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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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Issue #2151
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Protests rocked the host city, The Hague in the Netherlands at the recent NATO summit, as peace campaigners protested at the militarisation of Europe. “Let’s...
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Issue #2178
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Australian public school teachers are spending more than $175 million of their own money each year on basic classroom supplies, exposing the personal impact of...
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Issue #2188
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Musicians from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) have flagged growing concern over management’s refusal to stop a six-year-old recording of the ballet Dracula being...
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Issue #2200
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The Media, Entertainment, & Arts Alliance (MEAA) stands in support of Sydney’s queer performance venue Divine Playhouse and its staff following its recent forced closure....
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Issue #2201
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Greenpeace is calling on the Albanese Labor government to urgently address Queensland’s deforestation crisis using the new national nature law, after the Great Barrier Reef...
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Issue #2202
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African nations have been urged to step up preparations for what could become one of the strongest El Niño events on record, say scientists. Climate...
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Issue #2117
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Farmers have travelled from across Queensland to deliver a clear message to politicians ahead of the election campaign: Farmers want a clean future. Farmers for...
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Issue #2126
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The fact that the world has so far continued to buy dollars come what may has underpinned US power, funding its enormous deficits, themselves largely...
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Issue #2145
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Israel’s crimes of collective punishment and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians have been ongoing, as the following eyewitness report Dingo came across in the Summer...
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Issue #2148
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Big tobacco keeps scheming. In Britain, a Tory peer proposed delaying plans for a ban on heated tobacco after enjoying a paid-for trip abroad to...
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Issue #2152
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The Australian Conservation Foundation says the CSIRO’s report Towards a state of the food system report for Australia, should inform a new approach to how...
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Issue #2154
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The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has lodged a dispute in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) over aged care provider Bupa’s new plans to...
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Issue #2161
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The NSW Public Service Association has congratulated all Art Gallery staff who walked out during lunch on 27 August in protest of announced $7.5 million...
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Issue #2171
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The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has welcomed new Australian content requirements for major streaming services, describing the announcement as a vital lifeline for...
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Issue #2192
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A few thoughts on where the money for the funding of Medicare, education, and other services to the people could come from. Address tax avoidance...
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Issue #2133
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Hate symbols and terror offences in Australia will now be subject to mandatory sentencing with new laws, which could bring prison terms ranging from one...
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Issue #2166
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Many aged care workers across Australia are receiving a long overdue boost to their pay packets, following the success of the Health Services Union’s landmark...
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Issue #2199
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Australia has pledged a policy of “No New Extinctions” and committed to international biodiversity targets. Yet one of the world’s most unique species may be...
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Issue #2144
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An activist-run ship on a mission to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza was attacked by drones in international waters off the coast of Malta last...
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Issue #2170
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US attacks on boats allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker...
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