Laurie Zio, the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party Member for Fannie Bay, has been caught out misleading parliament about support for mandatory sentencing. Stephen W Enciso reports.
Welfare
Labor has delivered what it hopes will be an election-winning budget, with $17 billion in new tax cuts and $150 in energy rebates to each household for their next two bills.聽Peter Boyle听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
A new report found that an income of $130,000 a year is required to avoid rental stress, but Labor has no plan to address extortionate rents, argues Isaac Nellist.
Hundreds of people gathered outside Victorian Parliament House to oppose Victorian Labor鈥檚 introduction of the toughest bail laws in the country. Jacob Andrewartha and Kalindi Salvo Sampson 谤别辫辞谤迟.听
Labor鈥檚 own Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has again urged it to raise JobSeeker and other welfare payments ahead of the federal budget. Isaac Nellist 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
The NT Country Liberal Party has contracted the controversial private British-Danish聽security firm G4S to provide 鈥渕uch-needed relief鈥 in the corrections system.聽Stephen W Enciso reports.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism.
Labor says it is delivering record funding in health, education and housing to First Nations communities, but First Nations advisor Pat Turner AM and Senator Lidia Thorpe dispute this.聽Kerry Smith reports.
Socialist Alliance preselected Rachel Evans to contest the seat of Sydney and a state-wide meeting on February 8 preselected Peter Boyle and Andrew Chuter for the NSW Senate. Jim McIlroy reports.
Granting unconditional income to all through a聽universally accessible income guarantee could lift millions out of poverty and be a step towards radical change, argues Brandon M.
Despite winning a majority in Sri Lanka鈥檚 parliament, the National Peoples Power government is struggling to gain momentum on the deep structural reforms required to guarantee people鈥檚 economic wellbeing, protect the environment and fend off attempts by the far right to capitalise on discontent, writes Janaka Biyanwila.
The Chris Minns government has known for at least 16 months about the 140 vacancies in the psychiatry workforce, but rather than rectify this it has gone on the offensive against public health professionals. Jim McIlroy reports.
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