In January, the Abbott government announced that it was due to embark on a review of welfare services, particularly with an eye to reintroducing Work for the Dole. In the months following there have been similar decrees issued, culminating in the announcement that the government intends to force job seekers to apply for 40 jobs […]
In the 1930s, textile workers in Geelong knew war was approaching when mills were given secret orders to begin producing larger quantities of khaki clothing. In the 1940s, local factories were brought under government direction and allocation of labour strictly organised to see that War Production could be carried out at maximum capacity. The Industrial […]
Finally, after approximately 7 years the Victorian Trades Hall called a general meeting of unions to discuss a united response to the recent Abbott/Hockey budget. Built on a lie about the condition of the Australian economy and sold under the banner of equal and fair burden for future prosperity, the Coalition’s budget is the end […]
This article is available to download for reading on iPads or for printing as a zine. Feel free to distribute this article for no more than a gold coin donation. PDF Version (271KB) iPad Version (87KB) On the front page of The Age’s print edition for March 28th, 2014, a short exclusive revealed the existence […]
Driving back from Boggabri in Northern New South Wales where I and a comrade had been visiting the Leard State Forest anti-coal and CSG blockade it was hard not to notice all the little newspaper banners in local news agents and servos proudly proclaiming the Abbott government’s announcement of a return to Work for the […]
The last week has seen brutality on the streets of Fitzroy as the Napthine government struggles to complete soil sample drilling necessary for the East-West tunnel link that has thus far been disrupted by community picketing. Victoria Police and the Melbourne Planning Authority have used overwhelming police numbers, crack squads of riot police, search and […]