Who are the two young men seen on video conspiring with disgraced politician Adem Somyurek? Until very recently, they were leading organisers of the right-wing faction of student Labor.
In 2017, I helped organise an anti-racist protest in Flemington. Public housing residents joined in. The police were completely out of control. Sending them in to besiege residents during a public health crisis is unnecessary, punitive and wrong.
Under the cover of COVID-19, the Liberal government is trying to push through a historic attack on the rights of students and university workers. Massive cuts and huge fee increases have to be met with student and worker resistance.
Hundreds of thousands of public housing units? Legal aid for the 160,000 people who can't get it? Fully funding education and Indigenous health? How about all of the above?
