A wave of protests has spread throughout Sri Lanka in recent weeks, sparked by an economic crisis. Chris Slee reports.
Economy
Indigenous groups and supporters have spent the past month travelling in a convoy to regions where Western corporations are plundering water and resources. Tamara Pearson took part in the convoy.
Sue Bolton,听Socialist Alliance candidate for Wills and a Moreland City Councillor,听argues that听Labor's "small target" election strategy risks helping the right make more gains.
Scott Morrison said he鈥檚 鈥渂lessed鈥 to have had two children who are not living with disability. Graham Matthews argues that considering the mess he's听made of the听NDIS, this may just be one of the few honest statements he鈥檚 made.
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Exaggerated coverage of Anthony Albanese鈥檚 supposed day one 鈥済affe鈥 in this election campaign,听including by the ABC, help disguise the lack of difference between the two parties听and tips the scales towards the Coalition, argues Alex Bainbridge.
Suzanne James spoke听to Socialist Alliance candidate for the NSW Senate听Dr Niko Leka about听refugee and asylum seeker policy, addressing the climate crisis and the need for universal health care.
Government action and worker solidarity are听key to overcoming the scourge of insecure work and ensuring pay rises keep pace with inflation and productivity improvements, argues Graham Matthews.
Labor will not commit to raising the JobSeeker payment of $44 a day, backing down on a promise it made in 2019 to review it. Isaac Nellist reports on the response.
If war were not such a profitable enterprise for capitalism, the arms industries would not be so huge, writes William Briggs.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was less than honest when he told Insiders听that the government鈥檚 vision of tax reform includes a 鈥渟impler tax system, a fairer tax system and lower tax鈥, writes听Alex Bainbridge.
People travelled hundreds of kilometres by road from across the Northern Territory to put their opposition on the record for a听Senate inquiry into shale gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. Hannah Ekin reports.
The integrated nature of the world's economies means that it is a fiction that national budgets are divorced from the global setting,听William Briggs explains.
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