Naarm/Melbourne

Herald Sun vilifies unemployed — again
Planning minister orders Carlton pub rebuilt
1916 conscription referendum remembered
Greens scoop extra spots in inner-city Melbourne councils
Angela Davis: ‘The refugee movement is the civil rights movement of our time’
Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria drops court action
Melbourne public housing site to be redeveloped with private units
Socialists re-elected in Victorian council elections

Those who believe empowered communities are the best defence to politics-as-usual are celebrating the re-election of two hard-working socialist councillors — Sue Bolton and Stephen Jolly — in Victoria’s local council elections held on October 22.
Insurance companies rort workers’ comp scheme
CUB boycott campaign intensifies
Pressure on RMIT over fossil fuel investments

On October 18, students delivered an open letter to Vice-Chancellor Martin Bean signed by 401 RMIT academics and staff calling on the university to dump its fossil fuel investments.
Big support for anti-racist candidate targeted by far right

Sue Bolton, a long-term socialist activist running for re-election to the Moreland City Council, is being targeted by cowardly racists. But that has helped galvanise a huge amount of community support for her work and principled stands.