Labor has secured a second term, with a landslide victory, but unless unions, social and community movements organise for real change, it will continue to bend to the will of the billionaire class, argue Jacob Andrewartha and Isaac Nellist.听
Healthcare
May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, but Ricardo Jones, a doctor and midwife, is spending it with a 14-year prison sentence for assisting with a home birth in which the baby later died, reports Tamara Pearson.
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Four hundred people protested the police murder of young Somali man Abdifatah Ahmed, calling for more funds for mental health and an independent investigation into the shooting. Coral Wynter reports.
The mainstream media pushes the idea that elections are only about deciding which major party forms government. Tony Smith argues that the government-opposition duopoly is wearing thin and preferential voting helps.
Not-for-profit frontline mental health services are being forced to beg for small change as they manage the fall-out from the mental health funding model. Suzanne James reports.
Community members, aged care workers and politicians attended a snap protest against聽the City of Greater Geelong Council鈥檚 intention to close its aged care service. Angela Carr reports.
Israel鈥檚 pattern of institutional response to alleged war crimes is well rehearsed, writes Binoy Kampmark.
NSW doctors, campaigning for a new award for more than a year, have been forced to take industrial action after Labor refused to pay the same as other states. Pip Hinman reports.
The honeymoon, if there was one, is over for Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro. Suzanne James reports on the growing pushback against her riding roughshod over democracy.
A spirited protest outside Queensland Premier David Crisafulli's Broadwater electorate office demanded the reinstatement of gender-affirming and lifesaving care for trans kids.听Susan Price reports.
Frontline workers in the Northern Territory are pushing back against the Country-Liberal Party鈥檚 destructive 鈥渢ough on crime鈥 policies. Stephen W Enciso reports.
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