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Snouts at the trough – again

15 Jan Tom Bramble
High-ranking Liberal politicians who lecture the rest of us on the need to tighten our belts have been swanning around the country, buying investment properties, attending polo matches, dining in five-star restaurants, and watching the AFL grand final from the comfort of corporat...

Protest erupts against ‘road to nowhere’ in Perth’s southern suburbs

15 Jan Nick Everett
One thousand Perth residents defied police intimidation to prevent bulldozing of woodland in the Perth suburb of Coolbellup on the morning of 12 Janua...

Behind the CFA dispute

20 Dec Steph Price
When Victorians look back on 2016, they will remember the year for two things: the premiership win of perennial football underdogs Western Bulldogs, a...

I was a teenage socialist

20 Dec Diane Fieldes
Every time I hear Midnight Oil’s chorus – “Oh, the power and the passion. Oh, the temper of the time” – I am transported to the past. Not to 1982, whe...

Henry Lawson and the ‘Australian Legend’

20 Dec Sandra Bloodworth
Romanticisation of the outback and the bush has been an enduring theme in the construction of Australian nationalism. Self-reliance in the face of an...

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Diane Fieldes

‘Independent’ my arse

Allen Myers

A letter to the minister for bigotry

Cat Rose

Mardi Gras snubs Turnbull, a small taste of what’s deserved


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UNIONS + WORKERS

Packaging workers end year on a win

06 Jan Simon Barrett
A group of manufacturing workers ended 2016 by fending off an attack on their wages and...

CUB workers back in the gate


Behind the CFA dispute


‘We’ve created a revolution in the Northern Beaches’ – Victory at Harrison


‘Hospitality United’ campaign launched for penalty rates


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REPORTS

Protest erupts against ‘road to nowhere’ in Perth’s southern suburbs


Refugee solidarity action blocks traffic


Queensland ALP attacks civil liberties


New campaign group fights privatisation of public housing


From gays at work to union pride


Malaysian students threatened by Monash University


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COMMENT
Diane Fieldes

‘Independent’ my arse


Allen Myers

A letter to the minister for bigotry


Cat Rose

Mardi Gras snubs Turnbull, a small taste of what’s deserved


AUSTRALIA

What’s the point of multiculturalism?

20 Dec James Plested
Australia is a multicultural society – among the most diverse on earth. Established in...

Caving-in to the right on Safe Schools


Bringing democracy to the parliament


From boom to bust in Western Australia


If Trump isn’t reason enough to scrap the US alliance, what would be?


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INTERNATIONAL

The counterrevolution crushes Aleppo

14 Dec Ashley Smith
The combined forces of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Russian air power and Iranian-backed S...

Standing Rock: battle won, but war continues


‘All that is holy was profaned’: the year that was, and the politics we need


Mass arrests in Indonesia during West Papua protests


Now’s the time for socialist organisation


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THEORY + HISTORY

‘Post-truth politics’ isn’t peak populism, it’s peak liberal capitalism

21 Nov Ben Hillier
Political lying has taken on a qualitatively new dimension. It’s the “post-truth politi...

Wapping – the bitterest of disputes


How Australian workers beat conscription in WWI


How oppression can be ended


Why capitalism causes oppression


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