Western Australian government announces further public sector job cuts
14 October 2014
With the reversal of the mining boom, both the state government and the Labor opposition agree that the working class must pay the price.
Latest Australian “terrorist” witch-hunt targets Islamist meeting in Sydney
14 October 2014
In order to keep anti-Muslim agitation on the boil, Prime Minister Abbott teamed up with right-wing radio host Alan Jones to denounce a regular weekly lecture by an Islamist group.
Australian imperialism and the Middle East war
13 October 2014
The justification for war is no less a lie than the claims in 2003 that the US invasion of Iraq was about “weapons of mass destruction.”
“Terrorist” sword seized in Australian police raids is plastic
13 October 2014
The revelation adds to already disturbing questions about the recent raids on 15 homes in five Sydney suburbs.

Audit report sets out a corporate blueprint for social counter-revolution

The Australian government’s National Commission of Audit report, released yesterday, lays out the agenda dictated by the financial and corporate elite for the wholesale destruction of the post-World War II social welfare system, and the driving down of the wages to levels below those already imposed in the US and Europe.

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Australia’s “Camp Gallipoli”—a militarist extravaganza
11 October 2014
The government-backed Camp Gallipoli Foundation is taking Anzac glorification and militaristic propaganda to new levels.
Australian forces deployed in Iraq: Bipartisanship and the war drive
11 October 2014
The illusion of “strength” surrounding the Abbott government as it commits troops to the US-led war is, above all, a product of the bipartisan support it is receiving.
Australian PM foreshadows ban on Islamist group
10 October 2014
Tony Abbott said Hizb ut-Tahrir could be proscribed under new laws against “promoting terrorism.”
Burqas banned in Australian parliament
10 October 2014
The ban was issued during a series of terror scares designed to justify the US war in Iraq and Syria and draconian new anti-terror legislation.