The NSW Coalition blocked a Greens鈥 motion in the upper house on August 12 calling for long-term funding for violence prevention and specialist services.
Funding for women鈥檚 refuges across NSW has been cut and the services tendered out to charities, including religious ones.
The motion acknowledged that:
路 domestic and family violence is the leading cause of death and injury in women under 45;
路 this year, violence against women at the hands of someone they were involved with or knew, has claimed the lives of 34 women across Australia;
Australian Greens
Many people are dismayed that the Greens have supported the Coalition government鈥檚 age pension cuts. Greens鈥 social media has been awash with commentary, with many people venting their anger at the Greens.
Some have defended the deal, trusting the Greens to do the right thing and labelling criticism as Labor propaganda. Others just want an explanation.
If you suspect that neoliberal capitalist governments, including the Australian government, act as kleptocracies for the richest 1% and the large corporations, you have good reason to.
Whether you look at their tax system, the various privatisation or part-privatisation schemes they are forcing on the public, the 鈥渦ser-pays鈥 drives or the publicly subsidised private insurance scams, you can see how the public is being forced to subsidise the profits of powerful corporations and the super-rich.
Socialist Alliance鈥檚 Sue Bolton spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Dave Holmes about her work as an elected socialist local councillor in Moreland, a municipality in Melbourne.
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with Bolton. You can find the whole interview at .
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New Greens MP Jenny Leong, who won the seat of Newtown in the March 28 NSW election, attributes the Greens鈥 high votes in several parts of NSW to its MPs standing up against corruption and over-development.
The Greens' support for community-led campaigns 鈥 in particular opposition to coal seam gas and the WestConnex road project 鈥 also won them a bigger hearing.
This is Part two of an interview with Greens candidate for the seat of South Brisbane, Jonathan Sri. He spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly's Evan Verner about the state of politics in Queensland, his position on various policies and what it is like to run a political campaign.
Jonathan Sri, Greens candidate for the seat of South Brisbane, joined Evan Verner to talk about the state of politics in Queensland and Australia, what made him run as a politician and his views on different political issues. In this interview, Sri discusses his views on politics and how music has influenced his view of the world. * * * The first time I saw Jonathan Sri was at a rally where he was on stage delivering one of his slam poems. "This is Queensland, where no man is carried we like our blacks in jail and our gays unmarried
Rapper Provocalz has dedicated a song to Australia's Liberal and Labor parties on his new album - but it won't be music to their ears.
鈥淭he anti-Semite Stephen Hawking can鈥檛 even wipe his own ass." 鈥淪omeone should release the hand brake when he鈥檚 on a hill." 鈥淗e should die already." These were just some of the comments left on Facebook after the most famous cosmologist in the world, Stephen Hawking, announced he was respecting the academic boycott of Israel.
Greens Grayndler candidate Hall Greenland: 'Markets and corporations won't de-carbonise the economy'
Hall Greenland, a respected left-wing activist, writer and journalist in Sydney, is the Greens candidate for the inner-west Sydney seat of Grayndler. Greenland was a Leichhardt councillor for the Labor Party in the 1980s, and served a second term as an independent between 1999 and 2004.
He is president of the Friends of Callan Park, a community group which has waged a long struggle against the privatisation of a vital heritage area.
Greenland is also the author of Red Hot, a biography of one of Australia鈥檚 earliest Trotskyists, Nick Origlass.
Recent moves by the Greens leadership to moderate some of their policies have opened up an important debate within the party regarding its future. Below is one contribution to the debate from a group of Greens members which points to "a worrying trend" emerging from within the Greens leadership. They argue 鈥渘ow is the time for members and sympathisers to confront these issues head on".
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鈥淵ou know how they say Lee Rhiannon is a watermelon,鈥 newly elected Greens councillor Michelle Tormey tells 91自拍论坛 Weekly, 鈥淚 could probably relate to being a bit of a watermelon myself.鈥
鈥淚 don鈥檛 think capitalism is good and I probably lean more towards socialism. I believe that, at the very least, key public services like water, electricity, health care, dental care, are things that everyone should have access to.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 what I think and I don鈥檛 care if anyone judges me on that.鈥
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