A study by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on labour relations in 26 developed economies, including Australia, has confirmed that workers鈥 real wages have fallen because labour market deregulation has 鈥済one too far鈥.
The IMF researchers noted the 鈥渟tatistically significant, economically large and robust negative effect of deregulation鈥 on labour鈥檚 share of national income, with workers鈥 share of national income falling drastically from 1975 to 2015.
Former US intelligence analyst turned whistle-blower and activist Chelsea Manning will speak via satellite from Auckland to audiences in Melbourne and Brisbane, following the Australian government's refusal to issue her with a visa on character grounds.
Sue Bolton, a socialist councillor in Melbourne, has accused Victorian authorities of deliberately minimising the threat of far-right figures.
A 2014 military agreement means Australia is host to the United States military, from where it can launch hostilities against our neighbours in the Indo-Pacific-South East Asia region.
鈥淎ny leader of any country who believes that there is no climate change, I think he ought to be taken to mental confinement. He is utterly stupid鈥, Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said on August 31.
Newcastle Police arrested a young man and woman for filming a peaceful protest on September 3, along with Sarah Barron, a Newcastle local, who had blocked all coal trains heading across Sandgate bridge for three hours. All three were taken into custody by around a dozen police, with the two who filmed the event being charged with 鈥渁iding and abetting鈥.
Barron was participating in 鈥淎ct Up Newcastle鈥 as part of the #EndCoal campaign聽initiated by Climate Justice group Frontline Action on Coal (FLAC), in collaboration with Newcastle Climate Justice Uprising.
Twelve people have died in Australian offshore detention centres in the past five years as a result of murder, suicide and medical neglect, according to Angelica Panopoulos from the Refugee Action Collective (Victoria).
While the debate on free speech has largely focused聽on聽the "rights" of racists and bigots, federal and state governments have been quietly passing聽new laws that strip citizens of the freedom of speech that is essential to democratic deliberation.