The major parties want to entrench a system of unfairly distributed electoral funding and corporate donations to pay for their manipulative misinformation campaigns, and to stir up racism, misogyny and bigotry against minorities. Peter Boyle reports.
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Over the last 10 years, housing supply has increased faster than the population, but house prices have still risen 75%. Peter Boyle looks at why Labor does not want the public to understand its tax concessions for the rich.
While so many struggle to meet rising household bills, Labor refuses to take action to stop the supermarket duopoly from price gouging. Josh Adams reports.
The day after scientists marked the hottest day on record, Labor's federal resources minister Madeleine King announced new gas exploration permits for fossil fuel giants. Pip Hinman reports.
Labor’s renewable energy “superpower” plan may sound good, but there are serious dangers in tying an energy transition to the profit interests of corporate capitalism. Peter Boyle reports.
As the climate emergency and extinction crises deepen, there is no choice but to struggle to democratise the economy so that it can be made to serve social needs and ecological sustainability. Peter Boyle reports.
Federal budgets are about choosing where public money should be spent. Instead, governments cynically use them to manipulate public fears and expectations, argues Peter Boyle.
Lock the Gate Alliance has launched a new group to campaign against the pipeline of coal projects in NSW. Jim McIlroy reports.
A group of former judges, who make up The Australia Institute’s National Integrity Committee, issued an open letter to the Australian public calling for support for the Voice to Parliament, reports Kerry Smith.
Alex Bainbridge writes new analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office has found that the cost of the “Stage 3” tax cuts will be $313 billion over 10 years — a huge increase on the $254 billion previously estimated.
Blaming wages for inflation is cover for the capitalists’ attempts to make working people shoulder the cost of their system’s chronic periodic economic crises, argues Peter Boyle.
A new Australia Institute report reveals that a staggering 93% of income growth over the past decade in Australia went to the top 10% of income earners, reports Isaac Nellist.
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