Thursday, 21 November , 2024

Australia

Stasi of the suburbs turn neighbours against each other as Aussie...

By Damian Wilson* Oct. 11, 2021 Months after an anti-lockdown protest, Australian police are using informers and Facebook posts to track down demonstrators accused of taking...

No to nuclear submarines – Jobs and health, not nukes

Maritime Union of Australia - MUA 20 Sep 2021 Today, on the International Day of Peace, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) declares its total opposition...

Former PM questions whether Australia can maintain US subs

By ROD McGUIRK September 29, 2021 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The former Australian prime minister who signed the now-cancelled French submarine deal questioned whether Australia could...

The case for renationalising Australia’s electricity grid

By John Quiggin Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland March 6, 2017 The public debate over the problems of electricity supply displays a...

How Australia’s zero-covid strategy turned into a total shambles thanks to...

By Graham Hryce * 2 Sep, 2021 Australia’s performance in dealing with the Covid pandemic, until three months ago, ranked amongst the best in the world. Even...

Australia: Victorian Labor government announces homicidal plan to lift lockdown

By Oscar Grenfell Sep 20, 2021 Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews announced yesterday that lockdown measures in Australia’s second most-populous state will be lifted next month,...

For most of the world, the pandemic is not over

By Devi Sridhar Sun 29 Aug 2021 The Delta variant of Sars-CoV-2 is causing major problems across the world. Estimated to be at least twice as...

Australian ruling elite demands an end to all lockdowns as COVID...

By Oscar Grenfell 19 July 2021   There are feverish calls from prominent representatives of the Australian corporate and financial elite for an end to all lockdown...

Chinese Unesco official defends plan to list Great Barrier Reef as...

Tian Xuejun rejects Australia’s ‘groundless accusations’ that China influenced the finding to score political points By Graham Readfearn and Adam Morton 19 Jul 2021 The Chinese host of...

‘Very complicated matter’: ABC bans term ‘apartheid’ in coverage of Israel/Palestine...

31 May, 2021 Australian Broadcaster ABC has announced that they will not allow the use of the word ‘apartheid’ in their coverage of Israel and...