Failure to adequately tax mining super profits has greatly damaged the Australian economy. Living standards have stagnated in the last decade or so, while inequality has increased. This article argues that the two are related and that the concentration of profit growth in the mining sector is an obvious reason why the increase in inequality Continue reading »
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The Albanese government wouldn’t be able buy nuclear attack submarines from the US without agreeing to let them keep performing all their core roles in our region. One key role is to follow Chinese nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines to be in a position to sink them if a US president wants to launch a nuclear Continue reading »
The kind of strategic study Australia needs, to preside over this kind of defence staff college scribble, is one which gives a sense of our civil society’s capacities, needs, aspirations — and our neighbourhood. The Flippingbook is an entirely inappropriate, narrow minded, chauvinistic, militaristic thing that belongs in a country practising for fascism, the submergence Continue reading »
The Australian government has released the declassified version of its highly anticipated 2023 Defence Strategic Review (DSR), and the war propagandists are delighted. Sydney Morning Herald’s Matthew Knott, most well-known for being told by former prime minister Paul Keating to “do the right thing and drum yourself out of Australian journalism” over his role in Nine Continue reading »
Peter Dutton’s number two, Sussan Ley, has called on the Albanese Government to allow a third option for the upcoming Voice referendum so voter’s can vote yess. ”Why should the Australian public be forced to choose between yes and no... Read More ›
The terrorism allegations were false, but the nonprofit still lost access to banking and financial tools.
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Commemorating ANZAC Day this year again under a shadow promises to be an interesting experience. The shadow is that cast by abhorrent war crimes allegedly committed by troops serving under our flag, in our name, not in one theatre, but two, East Timor and Afghanistan. If proven, and the evidence looks strong, these cast a Continue reading »
Peter Dutton has staked his political future on Jacinta Price, his new shadow minister for Aboriginal Affairs, a woman of less than 10 months experience in Parliament, none of which have been spent in government. No one could doubt her zeal, debating skills and her own stake in the success of achieving a No vote Continue reading »
While we’re acutely aware that the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the underlying integrity of our current economic and financial models, our infinitely greater concern must be with the inexorable progression of climate change. As physicist Richard Feynman said: ‘For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.’ The Continue reading »
The ‘Anzac Cloak’ smothering any matter of opinion that does not adorn the ‘Anzac Spirit’ has become pervasive. Too often, this appropriation of one facet of development of a uniquely ‘Australian’ character – rooted by the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia – has at least one of two perverted purposes: political or commercial. The Continue reading »