Economy

Greens MP Michael Berkman with campaigners on polling day

While the聽Liberal National Party had been predicted to win聽the October 26 Queensland election,聽its victory was not on the scale of Labor鈥檚 decimation in 2012, as some had feared. Alex Bainbridge reports.

The Global Ecosocialist Network and Marxmail.world鈥檚 鈥淩oadmap to Ecosocialism鈥 forum heard from four speakers about the strategies and tactics needed to move beyond capitalism. Susan Price reports on the presentations.

Instead of restoring trust in the public service and politics, the National Anti-Corruption Commission聽has shown it prefers to be impotent, argues Binoy Kampmark.

The NSW Independent Casino Commission handed Star Casino a reduced wrist-slap fine and yet another extension on its still-suspended licence, claiming its latest reprieve is 鈥渋n the public interest鈥. Suzanne James reports.

Federico Fuentes explains what happened in the Venezuelan elections, what it means and where it leaves the solidarity movement.

Labor now wants to keep the national broadband network, NBN Co, in public ownership, tabling a bill in parliament to that effect. Jim McIlroy reports.

Newcastle and the Hunter region in New South Wales are the focus of the Monumental Imaginaries 别虫丑颈产颈迟颈辞苍.听Cathy Peters reviews the works of artists commenting on the magnitude of the transformation required for a rapid energy transition.

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Thousands of small farmers, landless peasants and agricultural workerscame from across Pakistan on October 6 to demand a minimum support price for their produce and an end to corporate farming and land grabs, reports Susan Price.

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Dmitry Pozhidaev reviews Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century Through the Prism of Value, by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts, which aims to explain 21st-century capitalism through Karl Marx鈥檚 value theory.

While so many struggle to meet rising household bills, Labor refuses to take action to stop the supermarket duopoly from price gouging. Josh Adams reports.

The COVID-19聽pandemic was an accelerant for money-pinching administrative bureaucrats to experiment with eliminating student-teacher classes. Binoy Kampmark reports.

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Sri Lanka鈥檚 presidential elections represent a historic change in representative politics and mark a new beginning, with many challenges for progressive forces, reports Janaka Biyanwila.