Fight is on for marriage equality
The marriage equality campaign is facing its most important fight yet. In less than four weeks, approximately 16 million people will be asked if they support marriage rights being extended to all. It is essential that the “yes” campaign demolish the reactionary “no” side. The farcical post...CONTINUE READING
Who’s to blame for the NBN clusterf*ck?
The National Broadband Network should have been one of the most successful and popular infrastructure projects in Australian history. Instead it has been plagued with drama; the construction has taken considerably longer than planned, and the technology has been significantly downgraded. A...CONTINUE READING
Manus Island refugees speak out
The Australian government’s barbaric refugee policies have claimed another life. Hamed Shamshiripour, a 31 year old who fled Iran, was found dead on 8 August near the East Lorengau Transit Centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. His mental health had deteriorated significantly in the pa...CONTINUE READING
Marriage equality: we need a ‘yes’ vote to push back the bigots
“If you don’t like same-sex marriage, vote ‘no’. If you’re worried about religious freedom and freedom of speech, vote ‘no’, and if you don’t like political correctness, vote ‘no’ because voting ‘no’ will help stop it in its tracks.” With those words, conservative former PM Tony Abbott fir...CONTINUE READING
Why class struggle matters
There is general agreement that the inexorable rise in inequality, Scott Morrison’s denials notwithstanding, has something to do with government policies over the past quarter of a century. Everyone from the IMF’s Christine Lagarde to ALP leader Bill Shorten agrees on that. But it’s more t...CONTINUE READING
A desperate plea for help from Nauru
We have waited long enough! We have a right to be free and to know our future! We were tricked into being transferred to Nauru from Christmas Island, promised that we would be freed quickly if we followed the rules. Those who remained on Christmas Island are now in Australia. Some of us ha...CONTINUE READING
The game is up for ‘trickle down’ economics
“This idea that people and inequality and incomes has [sic] been going in the wrong direction. That’s not borne out by the facts. It hasn’t got worse, inequality. It’s actually got better.” So contended that man of the people cum treasurer Scott Morrison on the ABC’s 7:30 program. This mad...CONTINUE READING
No justice in racist Australia
Justice has once again been denied to the Indigenous community. In August 2016, Elijah Doughty, an Indigenous teenager from Kalgoorlie, WA, was chased from the road while riding a motorbike and struck down by an unnamed pursuer in a two tonne ute. He was killed instantly. On 21 July, his k...CONTINUE READING
Marking 100 issues of Red Flag
What is the socialist press for? Launching Red Flag four years ago, we wrote: “Over the past few years – from the Arab revolutions to Occupy to the resistance to austerity in Europe – people have time and again taken to the streets, organised in their communities and their workplaces, and...CONTINUE READING