Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen are joined by Nova Sobieralski to discuss Labor's attacks on the CFMEU and the NDIS amendment bill, and talk to socialist council candidate Rachel Evans.听
Bill Shorten
Trans rights campaigners say that the push to聽remove聽gender neutral language from聽a Medicare form聽sets a dangerous聽precedent for an already marginalised section of the population.听Nova Sobieralski听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
Most workers cannot wait to get rid of this dreadful federal Coalition government. But fewer believe that a Bill Shorten-led Labor government will actually change the rules, writes Sue Bull.
The farcical by Coalition Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his minister for small and family business Senator Michaelia Cash says a lot about the state of Australian politics.
School students went on strike outside Labor leader Bill Shorten鈥檚 Melbourne office on February 8.
The Australian Labor Party leadership has failed its first foreign policy test in 2019 by 's support for the Donald Trump administration鈥檚 recognition of Juan Guaid贸 as un-elected 鈥渋nterim President鈥 of Venezuela, in violation of international law.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison鈥檚 announcement that all refugee children will be removed from Nauru by the end of the year demonstrates that the refugee rights movement is winning, writes Susan Price.
Populism Now! The Case for Progressive Populism
David McKnight
New South, 2018
177 pages, rrp $29.99
David McKnight鈥檚 Populism Now! catches a wave of discussion about the chances for a progressive 鈥減opulism鈥, writes Jonathan Strauss.
Also in the spray, for example, is a June Quarterly Essay piece by the Australia Institute鈥檚 Richard Denniss 鈥淒ead Right: how neoliberalism ate itself and what comes next鈥 and the previously post-whatever Chantal Mouffe鈥檚 musings on 鈥渓eft populism鈥.
Establishment media are rife with speculation that senior Labor MP Anthony Albanese may be preparing for another tilt at opposition leader.
Albanese has stated .
But you never know what to believe in these days of revolving door leadership swaps, where pragmatism has replaced principle in both the major parties.
'Class consciousness is knowing which side of the fence you鈥檙e on. Class analysis is figuring out who is there with you.' 鈥 Slogan from a 1970s poster, author unknown.
The newly formed "Industrial Left" faction of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in Victoria combined with the right at the party's state conference on May 28 to block discussion about imposing a 90 day time limit on offshore detention.
Labor Opposition leader Bill Shorten delivered his budget reply speech on May 10, promising to deliver a 鈥渂igger, better and fairer tax cut for 10 million working Australians鈥.
Less than three weeks out from the Batman byelection, Labor has yet to announce a definitive policy on Adani鈥檚 Carmichael coalmine.
Climate activists have focused their campaign on calling for Labor to announce that in government it would reverse existing approvals for new coalmines in the Galilee Basin. Labor leader Bill Shorten has responded with statements that have been interpreted as being 鈥渢ougher on Adani鈥, but that have fallen far short of the demands of the movement which regards Labor as still straddling the fence.
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