If someone took $20,000 from you, you’d probably want it back. And if you and every single one of your workmates had that kind of money taken out of your pay packets it’s pretty likely you’d expect your union to try to organise to win it back.
Far-right and outright fascist politics are on the rise across the West. Australia isn’t immune. The recent spate of far-right protests here is a wake-up call.
Charlie Kirk has been martyred. In a way, this death is quintessentially American; he will now join the ranks of Lincoln and Martin Luther King, among others. The assassin, by inserting himself into history and cutting short Kirk’s life, has likely made him a more powerful and enduring figure.
In the last few days, mass youth protests, dubbed the “Gen-Z revolution”, exploded on the streets of Nepal, forcing a political crisis and the resignation of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli.
Even if tariffs don’t have the catastrophic effects—like COVID-era empty store shelves and price gouging—that many predicted, they will still contribute to a slowing economy, higher prices and potentially mass lay-offs.
