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Nurses are leaving the profession in droves and the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed us to breaking point. Abigail Humphreys provides context to union members’ decision to reject the 3% pay offer.
read now Mat Ward looks back at June’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
read now Where do we draw the line when deciding who has an “unfair” advantage in elite sports, asks Mary Merkenich?
read now Four hundred people rallied outside the US Consulate to protest the United States Supreme Court decision to strike down the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling. Alex Salmon reports.
read now The far right needs to be politically defeated, not banned, writes Jacob Andrewartha.
read now Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Central and Latin America on June 25 to celebrate the gains made by LGBTIQ activists and demand further change, reports Ben Radford.
read now Ending deportations will be the real character test for the new Labor government, writes Janet Parker.
read now Renfrey Clarke asks who really set the stage for the war, and finds the answer in the aggressive military pressure exerted in the region by the United States and NATO.
read now Gideon Polya writes that free speech faltered and falsehood triumphed at the University of Melbourne, after the student union was forced to withdraw a motion condemning apartheid Israel.
read now More than 100 protesters defied police to stop traffic in the CBD on June 27 for just under an hour at 8am as part of Blockade Australia’s (BA) week of climate action. Rachel Evans reports.
read now Stephen Coates reviews Fue Golpe, which chronicles the coup that unfolded in Bolivia in November 2019 against the country’s elected president Evo Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government.
read now The Reserve Bank of Australia has made clear it would rather make life much harder for workers — even if it means tanking the economy — than touch record-high corporate profits. Fred Fuentes reports.
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