The police are rounding up protest organisers and using massive force to crush demonstrations. The right to protest is at risk for everyone, and there's no guarantee we'll get it back.
The Murdoch press and the Liberals are hypocrites–but that doesn't mean Victorian Labor are the good guys. They've privatised, outsourced, and cut their way into a disaster.
According to a now-infamous open letter published in Harper's magazine, "the free exchange of information and ideas... is daily becoming more constricted". Is it, though?
Australia's supposed history of national unity and cooperation is regularly invoked by both right-wing politicians and trade union leaders. But the country's history is one of bitter class struggle, even during the peaks of nationalist frenzy like the first World War.
