Public Protection Safety Officers, a new armed quasi-police force, will be deployed across the Northern Territory’s public transport network, liquor stores and public housing from June. Briar Bailey reports.
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Two thousand council workers took strike action, for the first time in decades, after more than 12 months of failed bargaining. Stephanie M reports on the Australian Services Union action.
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More than 130 public homes in inner-city Waterloo will be destroyed within weeks, but many of the evicted residents still don’t know where they will be sent. Rachel Evans and Pip Hinman report.
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Graham Matthews joins the Green Left Show to discuss Labor’s planned cuts to the NDIS.
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Mark Gillespie writes about the inaugural radical 78er History Walk, where he links past struggles to the present, including the ongoing police violence against peaceful protesters.
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Defence minister Richard Marles’ announcement that he plans to raise military spending by $53 billion will help boost weapons’ company profits and shore up Australia’s position as deputy sheriff for the United States in the Asia Pacific, argues Isaac Nellist.
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The Anthony Albanese government’s decision to savage the National Disability Insurance Scheme ranks high in the scale of betrayals by neoliberal Labor governments, argues Graham Matthews.
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Hungarian far-right president Victor Orbán’s fall represents a stinging ideological defeat for global neofascist and far-right movements and parties, argues Kevin B Anderson.
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Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a fictitious threat has left us without adequate fuel, food and transportation security, argues Bevan Ramsden.
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Refugee rights organisations say a new Labor bill gives three ministers extraordinary powers to prevent people fleeing a conflict zone from seeking asylum in Australia. Pip Hinman reports.
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Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that Anthony Albanese’s Freudian slip, while playing a word association game, sums him up: White, misogynist and a loyal United States ally.
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Chris Minns apologised to the 78ers in 2016 about police violence. Barbara Karpinski writes that police are still traumatising youth at an ever-increasing rate and that Mardi Gras has to acknowledge this.