For just under a fortnight, workers at Coles’ warehouse in Somerton have been out on strike as a last resort to ensure they enjoy the same benefits as most other employees in the Coles/Toll network. When the EBA was negotiated three years ago the workers were promised that they would be given the same pay […]
The Australian Labor Party has historically faced antagonism from the conservative press, most often for not having the economic credentials needed to be trusted with the national balance. To Tories the government’s role is to place financial capital and security at a higher priority than social capital and security – if the latter is lacking […]
Rachel Siewert’s recent ‘social experiment’ – pretending to live on Newstart payments – for a week is little more than a cheap political stunt that demonstrates her own naïveté and ignorance as much as it does that of the wider public. One would have thought that Australians did not need the simple truth of Australian […]
#Stopkony is a worrying viral campaign conducted by Invisible Children Inc. Already claims are coming out that Invisible Children is a pretty terrible charity for passing on funds to their targets and they are also reputed to be linked to and financiers of the Ugandan military. Perhaps it’s crap – I’m not sure you really […]
During a quieter period of our protest against the TPPA negotiations a group of us decided to walk along the Yarra do bridge-drops with our largest anti-TPPA banner. However, as we were making our way to the river we were given a tip off that the United States delegates were having a working lunch at […]
Recently a story came to light that a researcher in Queensland had uncovered documents that showed there had been a major mutiny amongst American soldiers stationed in Townsville during the Second World War. The mutiny was a very violent affair: black soldiers, fed up with constant racial abuse, turned machine guns and anti-aircraft guns on […]