More and more people are falling into poverty, according to the latest Poverty in Australia report, but ending it is easier than we think, argues Isaac Nellist.
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Labor claims its changes to the first home buyers scheme will help more people “realise their dream of home ownership sooner”. However, as Isaac Nellist argues, it will likely make it worse.
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The $240 million fine imposed on the ANZ Bank is a reminder that the banking oligopoly continues to behave badly, despite their promises to lift their game. Peter Boyle reports.
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The importance of 91̳ as one of the most longstanding people-powered alternative media projects was underlined by the many statements of support it received during its “Powering Rebellion” livestream broadcast. Peter Boyle reports.
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Labor will set a new 2035 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to take to the United Nations climate summit in November. Peter Boyle argues that as the world’s third-largest fossil fuel exporter, it needs to be much higher than what is being touted.
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Labor’s push to further tie Australia to US military ambitions, represented by AUKUS and the recent Talisman Sabre military exercises, puts us on a path to destruction, argues Pip Hinman.
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Ecosocialism 2025 organisers are excited to announce that the conference will host the biggest delegation of Asia-Pacific activists to the conference since 2019. But we need your help. Fred Fuentes reports.
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Even before Donald Trump got the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to agree to raise military spending, Oxfam said that less than 3% of the richest seven countries’ annual military spending, about US$1.5 trillion, could totally eradicate world hunger. Peter Boyle reports.
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Labor should cancel AUKUS, regardless of US President Donald Trump’s review of the military pact, argues Pip Hinman.
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Labor’s decision to extend Woodside’s North West Shelf sends a clear signal to the gas industry that it will not let the concerns of scientists, Traditional Owners and ordinary working people stand in the way of corporate profits, argues Maz Misiewicz.
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The federal election results show that young people are looking for alternatives to the two major parties and the capitalist system, argues Isaac Nellist.
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The second-term Anthony Albanese government has no excuse not to raise welfare payments in a cost-of-living and housing crisis, argues Pip Hinman.