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Save the Safe Schools Coalition

The Safe Schools Coalition is an alliance of 535 primary and secondary schools across the country, which aims to ensure the safety of LGBTI students. The program began in 2014 under the Abbott government. It has already engaged more than 13,000 education professionals. On March 18, Turnbull announced that funding will not continue after 2017, that parental consent will be a requirement for implementation of the program and that primary schools will no longer be able to sign up to it.

Refugees

Millions spent on anti-refugee propaganda

That the Australian government can find $6 million to fund a film aimed at convincing asylum seekers to not come to Australia and yet cut more than $50 million from Screen Australia speaks volumes about its priorities.

The ABCC

The ABCC: Trigger for a gun pointed at workers' heads

In all the media hype about Malcolm Turnbull's recalling of parliament in April and talk of a double dissolution election, it is easy to lose sight of the “trigger” — the Australian Building and Construction Commission bill (ABCC bill).

Climate change

Ian Angus: How the Paris talks failed the planet

'The Paris talks were pretty much what I expected them to be; that is, basically a pretty substantial show without really very much content.'

Asylum seekers

EU-Turkey refugee 'pact of shame' stirs outrage, solidarity

It is very hard to find words that can even begin to describe how progressive people all over Europe are viewing the “pact of shame” over refugees reached between the European Union and Turkey on March 18.
This week's Socialist Alliance 'Our Common Cause' column

Senate reform not the democratic advance it is claimed to be

The Senate reform pushed through by the Turnbull Liberal-National government with the support of the Greens does not make federal Parliament more democratic.
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THIS WEEK'S COLUMN BY RESISTANCE!, SOCIALIST YOUTH ORGANISATION

The kids are alright: Millennial politics, democratic socialism and Bernie Sanders

Across the US young people are pouring into the polling booths. The contest is not the Presidential election — that is still some months away. Instead they are lining up to vote in the primaries for the Democratic Party. In particular they are turning up to vote for an old Jewish radical from New York.
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Australian News

Last Australian-crewed ship cancelled

British Fidelity, the last Australian-crewed oil tanker serving the Australian coast, has been removed from service by petroleum giant BP. British Fidelity had transported petroleum from Kwinana in South Australia to Devenport and Hobart in Tasmania.

Nauru refugees protest 1000 days in detention

Asylum seekers on Nauru have been protesting their long-term detention every day since March 20. Good Friday marked 1000 days in detention with no refugee determination for some asylum seekers. Every day at 5pm women, men and children march to the fence brandishing hand-painted signs calling for faster processing of their refugee applications.
Further Australian News
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  • Victorian paramedics win pay rise
  • State income taxes and the new race to...
  • Knitting Nannas ask Turnbull: 'Will...
  • Hundreds attend Kurdish new year...
  • Irish Easter Rising commemorated in...
  • Halabja genocide marked in Sydney's...
  • Last Australian-crewed ship cancelled
  • Police drop charges against CFMEU...
  • Immigration panic as Manus court...
  • Nauru refugees protest 1000 days in...
  • Hysterical news.com holds nation back,...

International News

France: Huge protests erupt against new anti-worker laws

Hundreds of thousands of French workers and students joined a general strike on March 31 against their government's attacks on hard-won workers' rights, Morning Star Online said the next day.

Letter from the US: Republicans in disarray as Trump pushes racist violence amid protests

Latin American social movements have condemned move by Argentina's new right-wing President Mauricio Macri to censor the Latin American broadcaster TeleSUR.
Further International News
  • Indian activist on resisting Modi:...
  • Why Turkey must free Kurdish leader...
  • 'Blame hate, not Islam': Europe's Left...
  • John Pilger: A world war has begun --...
  • Bernie Sanders wins big in Utah,...
  • United States: Protests hit Arizona...
  • Argentina: Macri's moves to silence...
  • United States: Sanders scores big...
  • After Brussels, putting terrorism in...
  • Ian Angus: How the Paris talks failed...
  • John Pilger: Gagging the facts on...
  • France: Huge protests erupt against...
  • United States: Chicago teachers stage...
  • Singapore: Crucial by-election tests...
  • EU-Turkey refugee 'pact of shame'...
  • After historic Obama visit, Cuba says...
  • How Clinton's foreign policy 'record'...
  • Behind Eritrea's oppressive regime —...
  • South African civil society groups...
  • Ethiopian regime has a 25-years-long...

Comment and Analysis

Turnbull's climate hoodwink

On March 23 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a new Clean Energy Innovation Fund (CEIF) with $1 billion in funding over ten years. But after a little digging the announcement looked more like the government is taking the climate movement for a ride.

Shenhua coal, corporate welfare and saving Barnaby's bacon

Opponents of Shenhua-Watermark's mega coalmine in the Liverpool Plains in north-western NSW have been given a boost by the Chinese government-owned company's annual report released on March 24, which hinted it may not proceed.
Further Comment and Analysis
  • Senate reform not the democratic...
  • What's new at Links International...
  • Britain 'discovering' Australia is...
  • Shenhua coal, corporate welfare and...
  • The ABCC: Trigger for a gun pointed at...
  • Turnbull's climate hoodwink
  • Save the Safe Schools Coalition
  • Millions spent on anti-refugee...
  • SA government removes Aboriginal...

Cultural Dissent

Where To Invade Next — Michael Moore's latest poignant, funny and politically sharp film

Michael Moore has made another poignant, funny and politically sharp movie.

Political music: Here are 10 new albums too good to ignore

Here's this month's radical record round-up, with an emphasis on International Women's Day.
Further Cultural Dissent
  • Paul Mason's wild ride to a socialist...

Good news (for a change)

Greek Islanders nominated for Nobel Prize

Greek Islanders who have been on the frontline of the refugee crisis have been nominated for the Nobel peace prize. Some 230 academics from the universities of Oxford, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell and Copenhagen nominated the people of Lesbos, Kos, Chíos, Samos, Rhodes and Leros for the prize. Only individuals or organisations are eligible to win the prize so 16 volunteer networks on the islands who organised to help the refugees are the official nominees.
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State income taxes and the new race to the bottom

Malcolm Turnbull has given the green light for the states and territories to levy their own income taxes to fund health and other essential services over the long term, setting the scene for as many as eight different tax rates across the Federation.

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