Albanese Abolishes Cashless Welfare, Then Rebrands and Relaunches It With Plans to Expand
Albanese oversaw the passing of legislation on 19 June to facilitate the holding of a referendum this year, which will decide on whether Indigenous people should be recognised in the Constitution, as well as whether a body be established to advise...
PNG Public Service Raises Fears Over Marape Ceding Sovereignty to the US
Increasing disquietude is simmering amongst Papua New Guinea’s public sector, as well as with a growing number of that nation’s intellectuals, as concerns over diplomatic ties Port Moresby is forging with Washington would appear to be triggering further tensions in...
“It’s a Whole Systems Change That We Need”, Asserts Blockade Australia’s Zelda Grimshaw
Blockade Australia (BA), one of the most successful and assertive climate defence groups to have emerged over recent years, descended upon key public infrastructure again last week, as it successfully disrupted “business as usual” at three ports in three states...
Australia Continues to Detain and Brutalise Children, Despite Royal Commission
Radio stations nationwide reported on a “deliberately lit” fire at Tasmania’s Ashley youth prison facility on 18 June, which saw a staff member taken to hospital for observation, while the authorities have estimated that the damage to and destruction of property...
Once a World Leader in Transgender Law, NSW Now Sadly Lags Behind All Other States
Queensland enacted the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2022 (Qld) on 14 June. This legislation replaced a two-decade-old Act of the same name, due to the fact that times have changed, the document’s explanatory memorandum sets out. Indeed, in outlining the...
Attorney General Enacts “Bare Minimum” Protections for Public Sector Whistleblowers
One of the opening paragraphs of the explanatory memorandum pertaining to the amendments federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus has just made to the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Cth) (the PID Act) is kind of humorous. The newly passed changes to...
Thorpe on Albanese’s “White Man’s Burden” Voice to Parliament
Kipling’s 1899 poem The White Man’s Burden, refers to the US colonisation of the Philippines, and, despite its release a century after the British subjugated this continent’s First Peoples, it reflects the same basic tenet of both projects: that white people...
As Christian Thugs Rally in Newtown Yet Again, Leong Assures That Diversity Will Prevail
Christian Lives Matter descended upon Newtown again, about a week back, on a Friday night. The rally was just a bunch of neofascist Christians gathering in public to vocally share their social hangups about some people not having sex in the...
Weak Integrity Laws Ensure Albanese, Just Like Morrison, Prioritises Corporate Want
On election, Albanese promised to end the “climate wars”, which much of the constituency took to mean commence the winding back of fossil fuel extraction, exportation and use, so as to limit the causes of global heating, which would have served...
Medicare Denial Sees Correctives Systems Destroy Prisoner Health to the Detriment of All
Australians are proud of Medicare: the 1984-established scheme that provides free or heavily subsidised universal healthcare to citizens and residents. This is especially so, when compared with the health system in the US, which, without such a scheme, only cares...
