The Anthony Albanese government’s decision to savage the National Disability Insurance Scheme ranks high in the scale of betrayals by neoliberal Labor governments, argues Graham Matthews.
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Chris Minns told a business summit last year that Labor's planning changes were designed for them which, as Ben Radford explains, means less public oversight and community engagement.
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Many nurses and midwives in NSW are unhappy with the Industrial Relations Commission's pay ruling, saying it does not address an undervalued profession. Pip Hinman spoke to Viola Morris.
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The premise that sex work is inherently and inevitably high risk leads to a lack of support for legal reform. Barbarella Karpinski argues that danger is structured and sustained by law, stigma and urban planning.
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Jacob Andrewartha argues that Angus Taylor’s “values-based” migration scheme is the latest example of the ruling class’ bid to ramp up racism and distract people from government failures in a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
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The symbolism of the ANZAC legend from the very start has always obfuscated and minimised the truth of the 20th century wars, writes James Wyner.
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Hannah Jamal writes that every Palestinian and Lebanese person in the diaspora knows the feeling of seeing yourself and your family mirrored in every martyr, every injured and displaced person.
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Australia loses $31 billion each year to gambling and children continue to be stalked in ever-inventive ways by sports betting vultures. But, as Suzanne James writes, Labor has squibbed on bringing in real reforms.
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A forum hosted by the Palestinian Community of Western Australia and All for Gaza/All for Palestine heard of the persecution experienced by Palestinian people in Israeli jails and their unwavering strength in the face of this. Cas Smith reports.
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Muayad Ali joined Green Left Radio to discuss the campaign to free Marwan Barghouti.
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Liberal opposition leader Angus Taylor’s new immigration policy, built around what he calls “Australian values”, is nothing of the sort. Shamikh Badra argues it directly targets Palestinians.
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It is investors, not migrants, that are driving the housing affordability crisis in their never-ending pursuit of profits, reports Isaac Nellist.