The Guardian • political
Issue #2003
CP of Pakistan: statement on current situation in Pakistan
The new setup in Pakistan has been established with the democratic parliamentary facade that has brought an unceremonious end to the Imran government. But the...
Read moreMaduro warns of plot to destroy dialogue from Colombia and US
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, denounced the attempts by Colombia and the United States to boycott the dialogue process between the government and the opposition.
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Issue #2017
What is happening in Sri Lanka?
For many outside of Sri Lanka, the political situation inside the nation can be difficult to understand. We interviewed Bimal Rathnayake, a politburo member of...
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Issue #1981
Derry Girls
Derry Girls is genuinely amusing and exciting – well worth a look regardless of the viewer’s ideological bias or how much that viewer is interested in Irish politics.
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Issue #2065
US shapes ICC to its agenda
Anyone supposing that the newfound enthusiasm in Washington for the International Criminal Court (ICC) would open the door for justice for Palestinians ought not to...
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Issue #2068
Angela Y. Davis – ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’ revisited
In 1969 Dr Angela Y. Davis was fired from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for being a member of the Communist Party USA...
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Issue #2071
WEASEL WORDS
Self-made Absolutely nobody is really ‘self-made’. If you think you are, just ask your parents to give you a little talk about the Facts of...
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Issue #2017
WEASEL WORDS
Will politicians stop “playing politics”? Do think tanks do any actual “thinking”? How “strong” is Australia? Well it depends on who you ask in this...
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Issue #2047
WEASEL WORDS
Warrior /ˈwriər/ (for) What comes to your mind when you hear the word “warrior?” Conan the Barbarian? Boadacea, with cool pagan woad painted on her...
Read moreThe gospel according to Morrison
Scott Morrison’s address to the April national conference of the “Australian Christian Churches” Pentecostal group raised many eyebrows.
Read moreAssange: when the process is the punishment
Australian Wikileaks journalist Julian Assange spent his fiftieth birthday in a London-based high-security prison earlier this month ...
Read moreVale Fred Paterson
Born on the 13th June 1897 on a pig farm at Gladstone, Fred Paterson became the first communist elected to a state parliament in Australia.
Read moreWomen in Australian politics meet to address “toxic” workplace culture
Earlier in July, a number of female politicians, staffers and academics met to form the basis of a model for the nation’s parliamentary conduct.
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Issue #1994
“For the sake of civility”: Grace Tame and the optics of politics
Politics – broadly speaking – define all relations and aspects of society, culturally and economically. There are many “styles” of politics, each propagated and used...
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Issue #2018
Paid family and domestic violence leave a huge win for workers
At the end of last month, working-class people across the country achieved a momentous victory when a bill tabled by Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke...
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Issue #2019
DINGO
The proposal by the Albanese government for an Indigenous Voice in parliament would be a body which makes representations to parliament on matters that affect...
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Issue #2057
Half million march against Poland’s far-right PiS
On 5th June half a million people waving Polish and European Union flags marched through central Warsaw. It was the largest political rally in Poland...
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Issue #2056
DINGO
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 #2057
GLOBAL BRIEFS
NORWAY: A new report commissioned by the Norwegian police into a deadly shooting during Oslo’s annual LGBT Pride festival last year blasted Norway’s domestic security...
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Issue #2046
The ALP’s dying legacy
For the past 25 years self-styled liberal democratic governments in the developed Western nations have been entangled in growing turmoil. Back room deals and back-stabbing;...
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