The Labor government’s crushing win in the WA election means it is unlikely to deviate from its neoliberal policies and enthusiastic support for the mining and fossil fuel corporations, writes Sam Wainwright.
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As the debate over the efficacy and availability of various privately marketed anti-COVID vaccines intensifies here and internationally, the time to re-establish our own critical public medical institution is right now, argues Jim McIlroy.
Asthe Capitol Hill 'invasion' goes sour and Australian MPs rush to get their stories straight,let's not sweep theugly truth about US 'democracy’ under the carpet, writes Pip Hinman.
Polls showa majority of Australians are fed up with the waste of money and needless cruelty of immigration detention, arguesNiko Leka.
The most important result of the Queensland election is the advance of the Greens, which haveincreased the party'srepresentation from one to at least two members of parliament, writesAlex Bainbridge.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese’sbudget reply speech failed to offer an alternative course to the Coalition government’s gas and arms export-based vision, argues Peter Boyle.
Mary Merkenich arguesLabor leader AnthonyAlbanese speech to the national press club was never going to be about a transformative plan to cut emissions.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and other Labor leaders are feigning surprise at the revelations coming from the sting on right-wing power broker and sacked state minister Adem Somyurek. But this cynical internal process is not new for Labor, or the Liberals for that matter, says Sue Bolton.
In a 40-minute interview with the Guardian, federal “opposition” leader Anthony Albanese's arguments for Labor’s serial capitulation to the Coalition government were weak, inconsistent and based on a fool’s reading of political reality.
Barely had we digested the news of the unexpected Coalition victory when the corporate media commentators and a number of senior party leaders were blaming Labor’s election loss for it being too left-wing — “too ambitious”, “a large target” and “bit off more than it could chew”.
The right-wing dominated Coalition's win in the May 18 federal election is a major setback for the climate action movement, the union movement and the interests of working people in Australia. We must now urgently take steps to unite and step up the fight to defend the movements for progressive change in this country, writes Jim McIlroy.
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