Australia

Socialist Alliance candidate for the Geelong seat of Corio聽Sue Bull聽says聽the one-off $250 cost-of-living payment for pensioners and others struggling to survive on welfare was "an insult".

Protesters burning a Basics Card in effigy

June 21 marked the third anniversary of the Howard government鈥檚 鈥渘ational emergency鈥 intervention in 73 prescribed Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, the so-called Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER).