The recent into poverty has found one third of sole parents live in poverty.
Many sole parents are suffering after being switched from Parenting Payment Single to the much lower Newstart Allowance. Under former prime minister Julia Gillard, about 100,000 sole parents were switched to the lower payment.
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Recent opinion polls show the Queensland Liberal-National government has 51% electoral support compared with 49% for Labor. So it is not surprising that the privatisation rhetoric has shifted from asset sales to leasing.
Akit and Aydinlik are two Turkish newspapers usually diameterically opposed. Akit is pro-government, and Islamic fundamentalist, while Aydinlik is the paper of the nationalist and Maoist Workers Party (IP).
But on one day during the recent protests by the Kurdish people in Turkey in solidarity with besieged city of Kobane (also known as Kobani), in which almost 40 people were killed, they ran almost the same headline.
Cairns Woolworths caused outrage recently by stocking a singlet with the Australian flag and the phrase 鈥淚f you don't love it, leave...鈥
Sean Brocklehurst is for Pascoe Vale in the November 29
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A good example of the anti-worker attitude of Denis Napthine鈥檚 government is its treatment of paramedics.
Victoria's paramedics have been campaigning for pay parity with interstate paramedics for more than two years with no sign of a resolution.
Marx on Gender & the Family: A Critical Study
By Heather A. Brown
Haymarket, 2013
US socialist Heather Brown has performed a great service in this short, yet detailed survey of all of Karl Marx鈥檚 writings on women and gender 鈥 including some that have never been published in any language.
Brown shows how Marx did not just analyse economics and history, he interrogated all forms of literature (even police files) to tease out the threads of social oppression.
Koby聽Bunney will stand as an independent in the Victorian state election for the marginal Labor seat of Buninyong, formerly Ballarat East. This is his platform for the November election.
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I believe that all Victorians should have access to safe, stable accommodation that is suitable for the needs of each individual. This will enable them to participate in society and will benefit their health, wellbeing and sense of belonging as well as the economy and community as a whole.
When New South Wales Minister for Resources and Energy Anthony Roberts cancelled the three coal seam gas (CSG) exploration licences held by Leichardt Resources near Kandos, Nowra and Moree on October 14, he said it was because the company had failed to fulfil its licence conditions. The alleged compliance breaches included failure to engage with the community.
Roberts had earlier complained that it was the previous Labor government that made it easy for 鈥渟peculators and cowboys鈥 to be granted licences without proper regulatory oversight.
In Problems of Greater Britain, the English politician Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke concluded that high wages, cheap food and the time available for sporting and cultural activities made Australia a workers鈥 paradise.
If Dilke鈥檚 observation in 1890 ever had any truth to it, it was a paradise soon lost. The average weekly wage did not recover from its fall in the 1891 depression until 20 years later. For the less skilled in the labour force, the 20% wage loss in the depression wasn鈥檛 clawed back until 1921.
The Wilderness Society released this statement on October 23.
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The standards of the world's leading timber certifying body, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), are being questioned after one of its British auditors gave an environmental tick of approval to log forests containing 600-year-old trees in Western Australia.
Kamala Emanuel gave this speech at a rally against Islamophobia in Perth on October 18.
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Like many of you here, I remember when the world鈥檚 biggest anti-war demonstrations took place in many cities in 2003. Millions of people rallied around the world and came together to say no to the West鈥檚 intervention in Iraq.
I think it is important that once again we build up the kind of movement that says no to Western aggression in the Middle East.
Doctors have spoken out for refugees in unprecedented numbers, as an open letter to the government signed by more than 62,000 Australians was handed to parliament on October 20.
The letter, signed by more than 240 health professionals, legal experts and academics, accuses the government of 鈥渨illfully and deliberately鈥 harming refugees.
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