According to an released on January 31, 40% of those surveyed believe the system needs to be 鈥渇undamentally changed鈥. Just 6% say it works well.
Rising unemployment, low wages, climate change, corruption, attacks on single parents, welfare recipients, refugees, asylum seekers and Indigenous people are just some of the concerns motivating people to join various protests and rallies.
After a family-led campaign for justice, Justice David Dalton of the NT Supreme Court said on February 2 he accepted that Dylan Vollar has post-traumatic syndrome disorder, was suffering from stress and would benefit from being released from prison.
He has been eligible for parole since 2015.
The Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade tabled its , Principles and Practice 鈥 Australian Defence Industry and Exports, in Parliament in December 2015. The report made 19 recommendations about how the Australian government should increase its support of Australian arms exports, which largely reflected the wishes of arms companies.
Sydney may be in the grip of an apartment boom, but the construction of thousands of units across the city has done little to put a lid on rents, according to an analysis of the latest rental data.
Apartment living became more expensive in Sydney in the year to September 2016, after rent increases in all but three of the city's local government areas, according to the NSW Tenants' Union Rent Tracker report.
Tenants' Union advocacy and research officer Leo Patterson Ross said: "Apartment rents are growing faster than house rents at the moment."
Condemning Donald Trump鈥檚 cruel bigotry is easy 鈥 well, OK, maybe not for the Australian government, but for actual human beings with functioning consciences.
Then again, our country is so screwed up, our government鈥檚 response to the rise of the most extreme racist authoritarian president in US history is to ask him if he鈥檚 still ok to take desperate asylum seekers we won鈥檛 help, coz we are sick of the expense of torturing them in isolated hellholes.
A new school funding analysis , says private schools are rapidly becoming public schools, based on the amount of public funding they receive.
The report says the argument that subsidising private schools saves public funds was questionable and for all but the wealthiest schools, fees are now the 鈥渋cing on the cake鈥.
A sharing of culture, food and art that supports refugees and asylum seekers, including those in detention, is at the heart of the Food for Thought project.
Ravi, author of From Hell to Hell, a collection of poems and drawings from his time in Nauru detention centre, or 鈥渉uman dumping ground鈥 as he calls it, first started thinking about Food for Thought the day he got out of detention.
Logham Savari, a young Iranian refugee fled from PNG to Fiji in late January. He was sent to Manus Island detention centre in 2013, after he tried to get to Australia by boat.
He suffered constant beatings and abuse and eventually accepted resettlement in Port Moresby to try and escape the horrors of detention.
But in Port Moresby he suffered more abuse and lived in constant fear and destitution, often homeless.
In Fiji he was welcomed with kindness and was staying with a family. He was reportedly happy for the first time in ages.
Residents in Blacktown, in Sydney鈥檚 west, are organising to stop the construction of an incinerator at Eastern Creek. They are concerned it will cause health problems for those living nearby and potentially pollute the Hawkesbury-Nepean river basin.
Next Generation NSW wants to build an incinerator (dubbed an 鈥渆nergy from waste facility鈥) just 800 metres from homes that will burn waste to generate electricity.聽
The NSW prison population has reached a record high of more than 12,700 inmates, largely due to bail refusals and an increase in assault offences.
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research said the state鈥檚 adult prison population surged by 16% over the past two years.
However, the growth rate appears to be slowing and the average annual rate of growth has dropped to 3.8% in the past 12 months.
The number of juveniles in custody has been falling rapidly.
There are now 250 juveniles in custody, a drop of 38% from a peak of 405 detainees in June 2011.
So the Greens鈥 electoral support has stalled at about聽10% and the leadership of Richard di Natale is being questioned. This 鈥渄ire鈥 situation, according to Bob Brown and others, is the result of the 鈥渨recking鈥 presence in the Greens鈥 ranks of leftish Senator Lee Rhiannon and the founding of Left Renewal by radical Young Greens in NSW.
Melbourne City Council sent 75 riot police to evict 10 rough sleepers who had been camping outside Flinders Street Station on February 1.
Lord Mayor Robert Doyle had previously threatened to remove rough sleepers from the streets of the CBD and council officers had taken away the property of homeless people.