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Jan 44 min read
Book review: Always Was Always Will Be, by Thomas Mayo. (Hardie Grant Explore, 2024)
Thomas Mayo’s new book , Always Was Always Will Be , is his deeply considered response to the defeat of the National Voice Referendum in...
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Nov 20, 20248 min read
Are you better off than you were in …?
The Annual Wage Review 2024-5, living standards struggles, and the next election The question in the title draws from what Trump...
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Oct 3, 20248 min read
Big business militancy – rising and it’s ok
My previous post suggested union militancy is one of the issues at stake in the defence of construction worker unionism and members'...
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Apr 30, 20247 min read
The Limits of Hope: The Power of Determination
Hope and resilience: “Keep the Fire burning ….” Recently I was fortunate to be in the audience at the Search Foundation Members’...
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Jan 19, 20243 min read
Living standards in 2024: a programme with socialist characteristics
Just before Christmas, the Socialist Alliance (SA) put forward a ten-point programme to deal with the cost of living crisis in the...
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Dec 10, 20216 min read
Food supply workers hooray! Heroes they truly are.
“Without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.” (from “Solidarity Forever”) Who, truly, reproduces society? The corona virus...
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Dec 10, 20213 min read
And still we rise!
This morning I awoke with mind racing far earlier than is good for me. The “thinking” led pretty quickly to two Facebook posts,...
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Dec 10, 20212 min read
Mainstream journo talks Plan B for tackling climate change
Morrison’s fake “evolve” can be challenged In today’s Guardian (Australian Edition), Lenore Taylor presents another strong summary of...
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Dec 10, 20218 min read
Just transition and green new deals – “Plan B AAA-Rated”: workers taking charge
The Australian school students strike on September 20 put forward 3 general demands for climate justice, that they have repeated since:...
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Dec 10, 20212 min read
Talking about the big picture …
www.afr.com/news/world/north-america/economy-at-risk-aides-warn-chaotic-trump-20190823-p52k5n … learning how to is critical for “rank and...
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Dec 10, 20215 min read
September 20: union actions against the climate emergency
Sydney 2016 Heat stress and extreme climate events Joining in on September 20 It is now just one month and a bit before the next...
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Dec 10, 20211 min read
Morrison government escalates class warfare
Dear Friends, click here to listen to Caroline and I discuss the Morrison’s government’s intentions on behalf of employers to make the...
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Dec 10, 20213 min read
The “logic” of Morrison’s LNP new old-fashioned attack on workers’ rights
It should come as no surprise to anyone that a new LNP government would go after workers and union rights after winning an election....
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Dec 10, 20213 min read
A delicate moment | Michael Roberts Blog … this is actually a big deal for the Australian elec
IMF chief economist, Gita Gopinath reckoned the global economy had entered “a delicate moment”. She offered a decisive insight: “If the...
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Dec 10, 20213 min read
Kimberley Clark’s closure of Huggies in south west SYDNEY can be reversed: from April to May 1st cou
Global unions IndustriALL and UNI, are holding a day of action on 11 April against Kimberly-Clark’s restructuring plans and the company’s...
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Dec 10, 20215 min read
Socialism’s Relevance Here and Now in Australia
Talking about socialism here and elsewhere Dr. Tristan Ewins consistently seeks, from within the ALP, as an open socialist to the left of...
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Dec 10, 20215 min read
Fine Dining and Class Warfare … Australian Style
Sticking up for Big Hungry Profiteering Over the past few days various media reports have highlighted the delicious connections between...
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Dec 10, 20211 min read
Davos Forum 2019 – working out how to keep the 90% under control despite everything
Davos and the ‘liberal order’ I think this, by Michael Roberts, is a pretty good summary of what the Davos Forum, now underway on the ski...
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Dec 10, 20211 min read
The Productivity Commission and Superannuation: Wage Theft on a Grand Scale?
Yes, its 2019 and Caroline Pryor is back with Radio Skid Row’s “Workers Radio” … 88.9FM. Today I joined her to discuss the arrest of...
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Dec 10, 20213 min read
Cops, protest and the future of work
From time to time police, and their union, seek pay rises and other improvements in their conditions. They are protesting when they do...
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