By Max Ormond The Australia Institute, Michael West Media, and the recent parliamentary inquiry into the taxation of Australia’s gas resources have put gas corporations under the microscope regarding how much wealth they extract from the country’s natural resources. Together with the ACTU, they are arguing for a 25 percent gas tax on exports. However, no amount of evidence about …

By Shirley Winton 11th November marks the 50th anniversary of the bloodless semi-coup of the popularly elected Whitlam government in 1975. As the tide for an anti-imperialist independent Australia is building up, what lessons can we learn from the Whitlam dismissal 50 years on.  This was a bloodless coup unlike the fascist coups in Indonesia (1965) and Chile (1973) where …

Contributed by a union member since the 1960’s Currently the Albo government and the Liberals (with the support of the ACTU) are rolling over to the employers and attempting to totally crush militant workers organisation, in this case the CFMEU. Through parliament they passed a bill giving extraordinary powers to stamping out strong worker organisations (CFMEU), workers’ right and conditions. …

By Blake Sartori The ALP Government finally renounced the Liberal Government’s ‘Stage 3 taxes.’ That had been expected after opposing them in 2019. Took them long enough. It came just in time to stem the loss of support at the Dunkley by-election.The political spin of these changes is something best left for the bourgeois press to fondle. The Left’s response …

by Richard Stone While the federal government in Canberra makes minor amendments and deals with opposition to their Closing the Loopholes Bill, some reports emerging about the changing composition of the Australian workforce have not raised concerns from the business-classes. In fact, the business-classes have remained totally quiet about the massive growth of temporary work visas, which hinder security of …