Moving into an aged care residence is often a very sudden trauma for elderly people, but there are ways to alleviate that stress, argues Jack Williams.
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Australia's arbitrary labelling of some global conflicts and not others as 鈥渢errorist-controlled zones鈥 is more than an inconvenience to family holiday plans. Dal Ouba argues听that it must be challenged.
Mukta Barai is President of the Socialist Students Front, the student wing of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, and played a leading role in the recent protests. She spoke with Susan Price and Jacob Andrewartha about the political situation in Bangladesh and the challenges for the democratic movement.
Supporters of Stop AUKUS WA and Nuclear Free WA presented Fremantle Councillors with a 400-strong petition calling on it to ban the berthing of听nuclear-powered or -armed submarines at Stirling Naval Base. Alex Salmon reports.
With 71% of Territorians supporting the right of the terminally ill to die with dignity, and such laws in every state and the ACT,听it is inevitable the NT will eventually have its world-first VAD rights restored, argues Suzanne James.
Labor failed to pass its anti-CFMEU bill after the Coalition withdrew its support, arguing it was not strong enough. Sue Bull reports.
Queer Liberation Boorloo called a protest to pressure the Western Australian government to support community-led amendments to its gender recognition reforms.听Petrina Harley reports.
Leftist writer and academic Farooq Sulehria, who is editor of Jeddojehad.com, interviewed Bangladeshi scholar Navine Murshid about the student protests which brought down the government of Bangladesh.
Labor has launched its push to become听a renewable energy 鈥渟uperpower鈥. But, as Peter Boyle argues,听any imagining of a green future needs to break imperial and colonialist power relations with the Global South.
Socialist Alliance launched its 鈥渓iveable city鈥 campaign for the City of Sydney Council. That and housing justice are the ticket鈥檚 campaign priorities. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Jonathan Strauss argues that a fighting, democratic union movement would entail members and delegates鈥 meetings directing industrial action and political campaigns, opposing state intervention and not subordinating union strategy to Labor鈥檚 pro-capitalist project.
A new draft list of NDIS 鈥渟upports鈥 shows why a list is the wrong tool. Many of the supports on the exclusion list are better value for money than items that have been included, argues听Nova Sobieralski.
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