The reality of Manus Island
By Behrouz Boochani This is my answer to Peter Michael whose article (now behind a paywall) in The Herald Sun quoted Immigration Minister Peter Dutton: […]
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Slavery in Modern Australia
By Jennifer Ellem The LNP and its leader are now officially worse than the despotic Roman Emperor Caligula when it comes to social welfare for the populace and […]
‘Big Bedroom’ Events Challenged
Written by Hayley Solich for Kath Mazzella OAM I am standing at the MCG … surrounded by a football field of women who are living […]
Changesnothing.org
By Sir Scotchmistery I just got another of those constant refrains from Change.Org asking me to support Mrs Whoever about the whatever thing of the […]
Rest in Peace
Rest in Peace, another few hundred thousand Australian workers and their families. Labor Senator Kim Carr today fails to deliver for the Australian automotive industry, […]
Laughing Gear
By Ross Sharp Once upon a time … It is 1983 and I am 24 years old, employed and on a wage of about $20,000 […]
The system is the problem
By Christian Marx Over the past three decades, the political and sociological narrative has become narrower than ever. Sensible social policies are now trumpeted as […]
Young voters want structural change locally and abroad
By Callen Sorensen–Karklis Its election time again, time to choose which people we want to represent us in the Parliament. A time to pick something […]
The mythical $80,000
By 2353NM Some reading this would be able to remember the days when the urban dream was the quarter acre block in a ‘nice’ suburb, […]
Is everybody happy now?
By now everybody in Australia knows who Duncan Storrar is. Until a week ago he was just an Australian battler who had faced more challenges […]
Trickle down thinking breeds inequality
By Ad astra In a piece published on 13 April, I predicted that inequality would be a hot button issue in the upcoming election. Now […]
Jobs and growth, but what jobs?
By Ken Wolff There are two key aspects to the government’s ‘jobs and growth’ mantra: one that it has been successful in creating 300,000 jobs […]
The Festering Seed at the Heart of Victim Blaming
By Jennifer Ellem I’ve given a great deal of thought to this piece over the past weeks and have come to realise that what I […]
Public transport is too expensive for the unemployed
By Tracie Aylmer As someone who has tried absolutely everything to get off benefits, only to fail time and again, I have few funds to […]
The murky depths of links between Transfield/Broadspectrum and politics
By Tracie Aylmer A while ago I did some research on mining companies, as well as Broadspectrum (when it was called Transfield). The research was […]