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.
The federal government’s inaugural National Defence Strategy significantly increases the country’s military burden and takes us further down the path to war with China.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s claim that a pro-Palestine demonstration at the Sydney Opera House on 9 October was “akin to a Port Arthur moment” reaches a new level of absurdity.
