As long as there is a steady flow of government money, poorly enforced regulation and a ruthless, cost-cutting approach to staffing and conditions, capitalists will make a killing from the care industry.
Sunday, 3 August, will go down in history as the day that the whole political and media establishment and the pro-Israel lobby, which have spent nearly two years trying to convince us that Israel’s endless slaughter is justified, definitively lost the argument.
Anthony Albanese has made his strongest declarations to date on the genocide in Gaza. But as long as his government continues to support Israel and vilify Palestine solidarity protesters, his words are worse than useless.
As Australian politicians took their seats in Canberra, thousands of mothers in Palestine searched desperately for sustenance for babies they had spent months carrying and nurturing. The politicians united to denounce a Greens senator for objecting to the genocide.
