Workers at the Powerhouse Museum and the Sydney Observatory have been told to accept redeployments to other areas or lose special COVID-19 leave, writes Georgie Dixon.
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A large section of the population — renters — has been left to fend for themselves in the coronavirus crisis, writes Pip Hinman.
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The federal government plans to spend $130 billion for a wage subsidy, but Peter Boyle argues it is more a corporate survival subsidy.
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The Socialist Alliance has released the following plan to combat COVID-19.
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Road building, ahead of logging, has begun in the unburnt southern section of Nambucca State Forest in New South Wales, writes Kerry Smith.
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The mining industry is focused on continuing production through the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Margaret Gleeson, despite workers' and local communities' concerns.
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The NSW government has quietly approved longwall mining under the Sydney water catchment, reports Rachel Evans.
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Abigail Boyd had a front-row seat to watch the wealthy be bailed out after the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. She warns the same is already happening with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Being Indigenous in one of the richest countries in the world is a risk factor for COVID-19, quite apart from the other factors dispossessed people struggle with, such as high rates of incarceration, unemployment and suicide, writes Emma Murphy.
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Socialist councillor Sue Bolton writes that years of cut-backs and privatisations have made it hard for councils to rapidly put in place a COVID-19 public health response.
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Other than those held in detention, refugees and asylum seekers living in communities across Australia are probably the most vulnerable to COVID-19, writes Jonathan Strauss.
