Roz Ward
Roz Ward

Roz Ward is an NTEU member, casual academic and Victorian Socialists candidate for Darebin city council's South Central ward.

Political right and child welfare
Roz Ward

Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out describes itself as a “frank, age-appropriate introductory guide to sex and sexuality for teens of all genders ... inclusive, reassuring and all about keeping sex fun, real, and shame-free”.

Fighting university wage theft means defending every job
Roz Ward

Australian universities have been stealing the wages of their most vulnerable workers for years. Almost one in four of Australia’s public universities is currently “repaying money, undertaking audits or in dispute with casual staff”, according to a recent ABC report. Top of the list is one of the richest institutions in the country, Melbourne University, with an executive team that were collectively paid a princely $12,198,000 last year.

When Australia's workers fought back against the Accord
When Australia's workers fought back against the Accord
Liz Ross

The recently published Stuff the Accord! Pay Up! tells the little-known story of workers’ resistance to the Prices and Incomes Accord agreed between the ACTU and the Hawke Labor government in 1983. Red Flag’s Roz Ward and Ryan Stanton spoke to the book’s author, veteran socialist activist Liz Ross, who was a public service union delegate during the Accord years, about the book

We're workers organising resistance in the pandemic
We're workers organising resistance in the pandemic
Roz Ward

 

Oppose Murdoch’s gender agenda
Roz Ward

A new page dedicated to “Gender Issues” in the Australian is a disgusting platform for bigoted and backward ideas. Each week, the editors push journalists to scrape together new piles of transphobic shit to peddle as news. Their coverage has been widely condemned by LGBTI activists and medical professionals. AusPATH, the body that represents doctors and workers in gender health, put out a statement saying that the Australian’s coverage of transgender topics is “biased, emotive and ... not based on fact”.

Government rewards barbarity
Roz Ward

Australia’s special military forces will enjoy an additional $3 billion in funding over the next two decades as part of the government’s commitment to spending 2 percent of GDP on “defence” by 2021. The combined military will receive an extra $200 billion in funding over the next 10 years. This is the largest increase in defence funding outside of war since the colonisation of Australia. Labor has gone on record supporting the increase.

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