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1. Greens campaign for rent freeze, housing affordability

   interest rates approached a seven-year high on September 6, The Guardian, citing analysis by financial data ... under mortgage stress, with 45% of households spending more than they are earning”. This comes on top of ... “rental stress” — defined as spending 30% or more of income on rent — which affects millions. A survey ...

2. Letters: refugee women on Manus speak out

   society. Letter 11 I am a 34 years old woman. From very early on in my life women had to always be isolated ... to put on. The sufferings of us women were not just limited to only a few things. The eyes of young ... detention Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru detention centres A group of women asylum seekers share ...

3. People’s uprising a ‘defining moment in Sri Lankan politics’

   manufacturing, and foreign remittances by migrant workers” — all of which rely largely on women’s labour, she ... and Socialist Alliance hosted a discussion on the uprising, featuring activists from Sri Lanka and the ... facing at that time,” she said. “Until 1978, the economic system was based on the Keynesian system, where ...

4. Britain: New king won’t solve deep crisis

   genders, women and ethnic minorities  — much more centre-stage. The ideological war will be especially ... hit the nail on the head when he said: “Now the vast apparatus of the state will swing into action in ... engagement ring to pay energy bills. She contrasted her situation to the many billions of pounds spent on the ...

5. Genocide condemned on Tamil Remembrance Day

   Remembrance Day on May 16. In 2009, the Sri Lankan military turned the beach of Mullivaikal into a war zone as ... Haigh, a former diplomat, said the Australian government “didn’t want to report on the war against the ... from the Tamil Refugee Council said the war on Tamils was continuing. “There were so many atrocities. ...

6. Community mobilises to demand 20,000+ Afghan refugee visas

   Alex Bainbridge Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East Refugees & migrants ... Magan-djin/Brisbane A huge rally in the centre of the city demanded justice for Afghan asylum seekers on August 22. ... protection to thousands of Afghan refugees who are on temporary visas. The rally was lively and vibrant and ...

7. United States: Trump declares war on birth control

   on a strongly anti-choice platform. Unlike Trump, who has gone back and forth on a women’s right to ... a chance during his presidential campaign to rail against reproductive freedom, including women’s rights to ... abortion and birth control. He is now doing his best to make good on these promises. In the process, he is ...

8. The British Empire’s dirty secret

   Agriculture Asia & the Pacific Books & music Imperialism & war Refugees & migrants ... Alex Salmon British Empire slavery Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built ... Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain’s Empire, historian and author Graham Seal documents how the ...

9. Stop Israeli attacks on Gaza

   Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East Ali Abunimah Maureen Clare Murphy ... attacks in the Gaza Strip on May 10. This came at the end of a day of violence that began in occupied East ... Gaza fired volleys of rockets towards Jerusalem for the first time since the 2014 war, prompting ...

10. and aint i a woman: NOW and the 'war on terrorism'

    and aint i a woman: NOW and the 'war on terrorism' US President George Bush has not only ... criticise Bush's war against the Third World. Far from condemning the war on Afghanistan, NOW merely ... argued for what it sees as the crucial aspects of the "war on terrorism": "the successful ...

11. Afghan activist: ‘Foreign troops must leave Afghanistan’

    Imperialism & war Shayaan War crimes War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) After Afghanistan was ... another one. The victims of these war crimes and bloodshed are the Afghan people — especially women and ... Brereton report on war crimes, we believe that because war crimes are committed not only by individuals, ...

12. Live Blog: Catalonia's Independence Struggle Continues...

    Dick Nichols Comarcas-de-Catalua.gif Note to readers This live blog will end on Sunday, January ... struggle and its impact on Spanish and European polítics. The new blog will provisionally be called ... “Catalonia in Spain: Europe’s key struggle for democracy”. It will focus less on hour-by-hour updating of the ...

13. John Pilger: The most lethal virus is not COVID-19. It is war

    a number of wars. I have seen the remains of children and women and the elderly bombed and burned to death: ... Imperialism & war John Pilger military spending Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Britain’s Armed ... names of more than 16,000 British servicemen and women are listed. The literature says they “died in ...

14. Rojava: A beacon of solidarity, cooperation and progress

    plunged the country into a disastrous civil war. The democratic impulse of the opposition was swamped by ... Rojava — hope for a better world lives on. Bordered on all sides by hostile reactionary forces, Rojava ... People’s Protection Units/Women’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) and their allies organised in the Syrian ...

15. War games promoted as ‘cash splash’ for war-weary public

    ranks, there has been a troubling rise in reported sexual assaults on women, with the  US Defense ... department has also said the war games are “not likely” to have a “significant” impact on the environment. ... Imperialism & war Pip Hinman Talisman Sabre war games US-Australia military alliance Green ...

16. Hobart protests against war on Palestine

    Women in Black and the Almiraj Sufi and Islamic Study Centre. The protest called on the Australian ... Susan Austin Seventy people attended a protest on January 15 outside MP Duncan Kerr's office ... in Hobart to voice their outrage against Israel's attacks on Gaza. Organised by the newly formed ...

17. War crimes in Afghanistan: Don’t fall for diversions

    invading and occupying Afghanistan. But nearly two decades later, the war is still dragging on and the ... the report is out, including with SAS personnel on record as witnesses to war crimes. Australia ... Imperialism & war Pip Hinman Brereton report War crimes Australian Special Air Service ...

18. Malalai Joya: US deal with Taliban means more war

    more than 2 million Afghans have been killed, but not a single killer has been put on trial for war ... suffering of Afghan women to justify their criminal war and sinister deals with terrorists. Today, the ... justice. For instance, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a known killer who was on the UN's war criminal black ...

19. Liberals’ refusal to disendorse Deves underscores its anti-LGBTI agenda

    biologically men have committed sexual assault on women.” After this third revelation she deleted her whole ... trans women playing community sport won’t be supported by the government.” Yet it was reported on April ... 12 that “Morrison doubles down on trans women sport ban in a bid to appease religious groups”. The ...

20. The failings of Westminster: Scott Morrison’s shadow government

    in a country that  tolerates secret trials  (only revealed by accident), raids on journalists and the ... “The Governor-General signs an administrative instrument on the advice of the prime minister.” Whether ... the statutes permit ministers to confer power on others. What was unusual was that such powers are ...

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