Renfrey Clarke expresses the plight of the working class first-home buyer.
Renfrey Clarke
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott,聽an elder of the Triabunna people in聽the Lake Eyre region of far northern South Australia, is campaigning for Santos and other gas companies to be prevented from destroying country.聽Renfrey Clarke reports.
The family of Wayne 'Fella'聽Morrison, who was killed in custody, are pushing for聽torture devices to be banned. Renfrey Clarke reports.
Opponents of the federal push for a national nuclear waste dump near Kimba,聽South Australia, argue it is unnecessary and dangerous, writes Renfrey Clarke.
Barely three months after winning permission to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, Norwegian oil firm Equinor announced on February 25 it had scrapped plans for an exploratory well in the environmentally聽sensitive region. But the fight is not over, argues Renfrey Clarke.
For the first time in Australia, a house of state parliament has voted to declare a climate emergency.聽
What are the strengths of the 鈥淕reen New Deal鈥 campaign launched by progressives in the United States and now being taken up by environmental and labour activists in Britain, Australia and other countries? Is it something socialists should support?
Close to 1000 people gathered outside Parliament House in Adelaide on November 3 to protest against federal government plans to build a national radioactive waste dump in South Australia.
How much bigger has Australia鈥檚 economy become since 1994? The answer, per head of population, seems to be: close to 50%. That鈥檚 not in current dollars, but adjusted for inflation. So can 鈥淎ustralia鈥 (read: the big end of town) afford to raise the rate of Newstart payments 鈥 currently at a base rate of $273 a week for a single person 鈥 for the unemployed?
South Australia鈥檚 Liberal government gave final approval for Leigh Creek Energy to begin a three-month trial of an underground coal gasification (UCG) process, despite UCG technology being banned in other states due to its devastating impacts on the environment.
The Liberals 'National Energy Guarantee' 鈥 which is a wholesale rejection of climate science 鈥 is also a sophisticated political ruse. It must be rejected.
The Newstart Allowance received by Australia鈥檚 jobless (if they are lucky enough to get it) stands at $273 a week. The last time it was raised, relative to the Consumer Price Index, was in 1994. Last year, the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research calculated the poverty line for a single adult was at around $510 a week (including housing costs). That corresponds to a present figure of about $521. This means Newstart is now $248 a week below that miserably low poverty line.
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