REDFLAG

Pensioners discarded like broken machinery

01 Jul

Kate Jeffreys

Australia’s pensioners are already struggling. Yet the message to working class people from the...

Build a new opposition

01 Jul

Ben Hillier

There hasn’t been much good news for workers in the last few months. The May budget is an...

The rich get richer

01 Jul

Kim Doyle

The global ranks of the filthy rich were swelled by almost 2 million people last year. The...

We need new football heroes

01 Jul

Jorge Jorquera

An old Latin American fable says that most children learn how to walk with a football at their...

Old certainties turned upside down in Middle East

UNIONS & WORKERS

MUA members stage safety sit-in at Toll

Fighting job cuts at La Trobe and Melbourne

Health workers ‘reform’ already under way

Nurses’ delegates discuss challenges

Union action can beat back Abbott

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS LIBERALS | LABOUR & GREENS | INDIGENOUS | REFUGEES

No nuclear waste dump for Muckaty

20 Jun

Cathy Lewis

Plans to develop Australia’s first nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory have been shelved. After a long running, defiant campaign led by traditional owners and...

Union action can beat back Abbott

16 Jun

Corey Oakley

On 12 June, Melbourne got a glimpse of the power that can stop Abbott’s slash and burn budget. More than 20,000 unionists marched from Trades Hall in Carlton to the steps of Parliament...

COMMENT

Sneering elitism won’t undermine Palmer and co.

04 Jul

Sandra Bloodworth

Pejorative terms roll off the lips of usually grovelling media spivs when it comes to the “jester”, the “merry prankster”, the “bizarre” MP Clive Palmer. And when talking about his “litter of...