Memo to the environmental racists: Australia is not full
The only thing Australia is full of is environmental racists and their cousins – the Hansonite racists. Julia Gillard dog whistled to both when she backed away from Kevin Rudd’s commitment to a ‘big...
View ArticleEven in death some are more ‘important’
It’s been a big week or two for celebrity deaths. There’s been AFL player John McCarthy in Las Vegas, John Gillard, the Prime Minister’s father, in Adelaide, Christopher Stevens, the American...
View ArticlePoverty under Labor
More than 2.2 million Australians, including almost 600,000 children, were living below the poverty line in 2010, according to the Australian Council of Social Service. Here is part of what ACOSS...
View ArticleI could live on $6321 a week
Jenny Macklin is a cabinet minister in the Gillard Labor government. Her portfolio is Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. It is Macklin from Labor’s ‘Left’ who is leading...
View ArticleWhy capitalism is a failure
We are taught that the laws of the market are as certain as the law of gravity, that capitalism is the natural order of things and that the system generally works. But while a tiny few are doing very...
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Babies: poverty is the real story the media ignore
In Australia, according to ACOSS, more than 2.2 million Australians, or 12.8% of the Australian population, live below the poverty line. That figure includes 575000 children. To put that into...
View ArticleEnd poverty to improve education
This article by David Sirota first appeared in an American publication, In These Times. Although it talks about the US, the educational crisis has hit Australia too with conservatives in both major...
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Joe Hockey gets it cars about
Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey ‘defending’ his proposed increase in the excise on fuel Australian Teasurer Joe Hockey says poor people won’t be badly affected by his proposed regualr CPI increase in...
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Poverty in Australia: the ‘wake-up call’
One in seven Australians lives in poverty, and the situation is getting worse writes Dean Maloney in Red Flag. That’s the startling conclusion of a comprehensive report released on 12 October by the...
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Proud to be an economic girlie man
The other day Australia’s Finance Minister, Mathias ‘the terminator’ Cormann, called Opposition leader Bill Shorten an economic girlie man. Cormann of course is a tough economic he man. So tough in...
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