In December 2020, Red Flag
posed the question, “Why is nobody in prison over robodebt?” Three and a half years later, we are still asking this question.
While Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton’s nuclear fantasies have stolen most of the headlines, the Albanese government’s recent gas plan is equally horrendous, offering no way forward on climate change.
The renewed push for nuclear power is not only about domestic energy policy. It is about the establishment of an entire nuclear industry and a possible future of nuclear weapons.
The Albanese government’s third budget provides the lion’s share of benefits to the well-off, the military and favoured sectors of the capitalist class and fails to address the major social problems facing the Australian working class—falling real wages and housing stress.
