Australia’s richest 200 people now own $625 billion in personal wealth, equal to nearly one-quarter of the national economy—a threefold jump from 8 percent twenty years ago.
Fifty-three-year-old Tamil asylum seeker Uthayakaran Periyathamby died in his sleep on 16 July after more than ten years stuck in the torturous limbo of Australia's anti-refugee regime.
Many of the recent media allegations against the CFMEU attempt to paint legitimate industrial tactics as criminal activity. However, not all the allegations can be so easily dismissed.
The main form of racism we confront in Australia today is support for genocide. The government has created a special position to counter opponents of it.
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.