Abbott’s comments are part of growing demands for the Australian government to mount a military intrusion into Chinese-claimed territory in the South China Sea.

The legislation is aimed at shoring-up the political establishment and clearing out the Senate to push through the sweeping austerity measures demanded by big business.

The militarist agenda spelled out in the White Paper is incompatible with the democratic and social rights of the working class.

Public grief and sympathy provoked anger from feminist commentators, providing a revealing glimpse into the political role of identity politics.

The CSIRO cuts are a major setback for scientific investigation into ocean temperatures, greenhouse gas levels and other climate-change issues.

The aim was to lend an air of urgency to a decision by the Australian government to order a military response to alleged Chinese “expansionism” in the South China Sea.

After the AWU and other unions helped impose savage cost cutting, the Australian steel manufacturer doubled its profits.

Not one of the speakers mentioned the cutting of health spending by the last Labor government, kept in office by the Greens.

The Australian Workers Union, working hand in hand with the company, is preparing to impose another round of job cuts and attacks on working conditions.

Labor is serving as the catspaw of the US military establishment and seeking to dramatically ratchet up military tensions with Beijing.

The ongoing collapse of commodity prices has placed question marks over the exposure of the banks to losses in the resources sector.

The Maritime Union of Australia is seeking to divide workers along national lines and obscure its own role in facilitating the job destruction.

Bishop’s visit to Japan and China underscored Australia’s role as a key partner of Washington’s aggressive “pivot to Asia.”

Deteriorating social conditions are hitting the entire working class, with Aborigines among the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.

Amid deteriorating economic conditions, Prime Minister Turnbull is under mounting criticism by the corporate elite.

The unions have torn up teachers’ hard-won struggle for job security by implementing new anti-democratic inspection regimes and streamlined sacking procedures.

The government’s reaction to the plight of these six Australian children displays its true contempt for the millions of victims of the predatory US-led war in Iraq and Syria.

The mining and resources sector is now in headlong decline, and the fallout is spreading throughout the economy, including the retail sector.

Forgacs workers were escorted off the job following the completion of a takeover by Civmec, as part of a sweeping restructuring of the industry.

The report documents Australia’s stripping of asylum seekers of basic democratic rights and the build-up of repressive police powers.

Raising the GST is viewed in corporate circles as the most rapid means of shifting more of the tax burden onto the working class.

The ruling sets a new global benchmark for the incarceration of innocent and desperate people in what amounts to Guantanamo Bay-style legal black holes.

According to the AMA’s annual hospital report card, waiting times lengthened in 2014–15 and funding shortfalls will worsen in 2017 when the latest cutbacks come into effect.

Closure of the inner-western Sydney Archway 1 theatre and exhibition space takes place amid ongoing federal and state government cuts to the arts.

The demonstrations expressed widespread revulsion at the persecution of asylum seekers, but the organisers promoted Labor and the Greens.

The decision sets a new global benchmark for the incarceration of men, women and children in conditions that amount to torture.

Washington’s entire anti-China strategy has received the unconditional backing of successive governments in Canberra.

“Freedom of navigation” is the threadbare pretext used to disguise US-led preparations for war with China.

A paediatrics professor who worked in Nauru has condemned the indefinite detention of asylum seekers as torture, defying the police-state secrecy provisions of the Border Force Act.

The vague charges underscore the increasingly repressive sweep of Australia’s “anti-terrorism” laws.

The New South Wales government’s blueprint will provide a bonanza for property developers and finance houses.

The award is part of a broader campaign to normalise military involvement in political life, under conditions of escalating militarism and war.

Fraser’s speech is part of a mounting ideological offensive by the financial and corporate elite to combat public hostility to the austerity agenda.

The Maritime Union of Australia’s “Our Coast. Our Jobs” campaign divides workers and obscures the union’s role as the enforcer of sweeping cuts demanded by big business.

Together with the other trade unions, United Voice is seeking to contain the growing anger among workers over the mounting destruction of jobs.

The CSIS report demands a build-up of the Australia military, as well as US bases across the north of the continent.

Over the past year, the admiral has played a vocal role in inflaming tensions with China, particularly over its territorial claims in the South China Sea.

The ruling will likely be invoked by the union to strike a backroom deal with the port company.

Detainees are now being incarcerated for an average 445 days, resulting in severe mental distress.

Shadow defence spokesman Stephen Conroy’s column underscores the Labor Party’s role as the most fervent supporter of the US-Australia alliance.

Malcolm Turnbull’s government has made the slashing of basic health services one of the priority targets of its austerity agenda.

While the tone was not as strident as his predecessor, Turnbull’s underlying message was the same: full support for US militarism around the world.

The livelihoods of workers in the northern city of Townsville and the French colony of New Caledonia are imperiled by the threatened closure of the Queensland Nickel plant.

Young people seeking vocational training are facing skyrocketing tuition fees.

A new year sharemarket rout highlights Australian capitalism’s acute vulnerability to the slowing growth and signs of economic instability in China.

Residents of Yarloop, a town virtually destroyed by the blaze, were given almost no warning and were left without water.

Tax office data reveals that the country’s major firms pay little or no company tax, while demanding an increased goods and services tax and the slashing of government spending.

The decision marks a setback for Australian imperialist interests in its resource-rich former colony.

The Dick Smith chain’s collapse has underscored the deepening crisis in the Australian economy, and drawn attention to the parasitic operations of private equity firms.

While the immediate target of the royal commission report is the trade unions, the real aim is to clear the way for a fundamental transformation of Australian industrial relations.

Victoria has been hit by more than 2,500 bushfires since October but the hottest months, when the most dangerous fires usually occur, are still to come.

The investigations into the Lindt café tragedy over the past year are above all aimed at obscuring the role of the state apparatus, especially the intelligence agencies.

Collapsing global iron ore and gas prices have triggered an abrupt economic reversal in Australia’s premier “mining boom” state.

Big business is demanding the further lowering of wages and conditions to match those imposed on workers across America and Europe following the 2008 global financial crisis.

As Japanese and Australian leaders met in Tokyo, an American paper reported a US military intrusion into Chinese-claimed air space in the South China Sea.

Under-funded NDIS service providers are struggling to cope with low prices set by governments and are employing an increasingly casualised workforce.

Anglo American’s announcement last week of massive layoffs, globally and in Australia, is just one indication of the crisis throughout the mining industry.

The global slump and collapsing commodity prices have shattered the government’s promises to return to a surplus by the end of the decade.

Even the government’s own dubious growth figures show that its much vaunted transition to a more broad-based economy is based on lowering real wages.

Turnbull’s announcement came amid an intensive campaign by his ousted predecessor, Tony Abbott, to demonise Muslims and call for ground troops to be deployed to Syria and Iraq.

The media has provided blanket coverage of plans for an anti-Islamic rally in Cronulla, where racist mobs attacked Middle Eastern youth in 2005.

The report targets the family home, which for more than a century has been exempt from inclusion in the pension assets test.

As a result of Australia’s “turn back” policy, more than 13,000 asylum seekers are now living in some of Indonesia’s most impoverished provinces.

Workers continue to die or be severely injured in work-related accidents that are entirely preventable.

The use of the criminal law to punish industrial action is a bid to wind the clock back to the nineteenth century.

Washington’s misgivings over Turnbull have been heightened by the lease of Darwin port to a Chinese company and his failure to agree to joint military challenges to Chinese claims in the South China

Less than three months after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ousted his predecessor Tony Abbott there are intense rifts within his government.

The power trade unions have diverted workers’ opposition into harmless protests while helping axe thousands of jobs through “voluntary” redundancies.

The impending death by stoning highlights the Sri Lankan government’s concern not to offend the Saudi regime and indifference to the plight of migrant workers.

The new powers, which can be exercised without any trial or judicial process, go far beyond targeting alleged terrorist suspects.

Workers and youth interviewed by the WSWS pointed to the role of the US in stoking global geo-strategic tensions.

The investment figures throw into doubt the government’s efforts to talk up the country’s economic prospects.

While the protests expressed growing concern over the environmental crisis, organisers sought to channel them into bankrupt appeals to the Turnbull government.

Asylum seekers who disappeared for a week after being intercepted by the Australian navy were found stricken in a small boat without fuel off the Indonesian coast.

Entire areas of “human services”—including public health and education—will be thrown open to exploitation by cost-cutting corporate operators.

None of the speakers mentioned the direct connection between the refugee crisis and the war drive by the US and its allies, including Australia.

Hot, dry weather conducive to bushfires is extending beyond the traditional summer months.

State Grid’s offer was turned down after a hysterical campaign presenting it as a threat to “national security.”

While his style was slicker than his predecessor’s, Turnbull’s reactionary message was the same: a continued commitment to war abroad and anti-democratic measures at home.

Sunday’s protests had the character of a well-rehearsed political pantomime, staged for the benefit of the media and the police agencies.

Extensive media coverage of anti-Islamic organisations is in line with the government’s preparations for war and deeper attacks on democratic rights.

Workers and young people spoke out against the use of the Paris terror attacks to escalate the drive to war and the assault on democratic rights.

Labor’s subservience to Washington and the US-Australia alliance is in line with its entire history.

“The only people who will win out from this closure are the company and the unions.”

The company will now try to use the threat to close the steel plant to extract more cuts to wages and conditions.

Despite mounting job losses, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures for October recorded an unexplained fall in the unemployment rate.

In Manila for the APEC summit, Obama condemned China specifically, further escalating the confrontation over the South China Sea.

Amid rising tensions with Beijing, Obama said Washington should have had “a heads-up” over a Chinese company winning the northern Australian port lease.

A significant minority of workers rejected the company-union blackmail.

Every effort is being made to silence any criticism of the wars, attacks on democratic rights and worsening social conditions that have fuelled Islamist extremism.

Hutchison management thanked the union for giving the company “greatly enhanced flexibility.”

One sacked Hutchison worker who attended the Brisbane mass meeting on Monday spoke with the World Socialist Web Site. He said that although there was “almost unanimous” vote for union-com

Opposition has steadily increased to the union’s efforts to blackmail workers into voting to slash their own conditions.

The discussion shifted from the commercial opportunities offered by Chinese investment to the “threat” posed by Chinese companies.

Kyrgyzstan, one of a number of former Soviet Union countries being considered for transferring refugees, ranks among the 50 poorest countries in the world.

The unions are seeking to intimidate workers into accepting 500 job cuts, a wage-freeze and an overhaul of working conditions.

With Labor’s assistance, the Turnbull government’s bill establishes a wider precedent for overturning the fundamental democratic right to citizenship.

Hundreds of long-term residents are being stripped of their visas, and face indefinite detention and deportation.