Although the circumstances of the police raids remain unclear, the political establishment and media are using the events to foment an atmosphere of crisis.

The unions have repeatedly boasted of their role in boosting productivity and profitability at the CUB plant.

Hanson’s political program is directed at supporting big business, while blaming immigrants, foreigners, welfare recipients and “the Chinese” for social devastation.

The disputes centre on the basic dilemma facing the ruling class: how to balance between China, Australia’s largest export market, and the US, its longstanding strategic partner.

The lectures establish the connection between social inequality, the living and working conditions of the poor, and the deterioration in their health outcomes.

An air of unreality hung over the government’s budget update because of the worldwide uncertainty in the wake of the election of Donald Trump as US president.

While the media commentary surrounding Eddie Obeid’s jailing has focused narrowly on “corruption,” the public disaffection and political instability go far deeper.

Royal commission evidence, including testimony by Dylan Voller, who was repeatedly assaulted, shows that youth detention abuses were the result of government policy.

More than a third of the largest companies operating in Australia paid no tax in 2014-15 and multinational tax evasion cost an estimated $4.8 billion.

Probing more deeply the causes of her daughter’s crippling anxiety during the last two years of school, Clark found a general consensus that “education is broken.”

Under the banner of “welfare fraud,” the government is seeking another pretext for gutting the entire welfare system.

The strong response to the SEP meetings demonstrates a significant politicisation among new layers of workers and youth.

Those attending the SEP meetings voiced their concerns about Trump’s extreme-right political agenda and the social and political issues confronting workers in the US and internationally.

Socialist Equality Party supporters challenged the union’s refusal to circulate the deal before forcing teachers to vote on it.

The worst downturn since 2008 is part of a longer-term decline in Australia’s commodity export-dependent economy.

A Fair Work Commission ruling, allowing Anglo American to dismiss workers involved in “protected” strike action, sets a dangerous precedent.

The medical evidence makes clear that Hamid Kehazaei died as a direct consequence of the refugee detention regime imposed by successive Australian governments.

Melbourne, a city of more than three million people, ran out of ambulances as thousands of people suffered potentially fatal thunderstorm-related asthma.

The SEP calls all NSW public school teachers to demand that the full 2017–2019 Salaries and Conditions agreement be circulated well in advance of any vote.

The Electrical Trades Union handed the dispute over to the industrial tribunal and is wholly responsible for the outcome.

The unions are working with the government and the industrial tribunal to prevent a stoppage by their members.

The union has called stop-work meetings on December 8, for 50,000 public school teachers to vote on an agreement that they have neither read nor discussed.

An estimated 6.6 million people—28 percent of the population—are living in areas of outright economic decline.

While Australia’s political elite hails the 1966 Wave Hill walkout strike, tens of thousands of Aboriginal people continue to live in dire poverty.

Socialist Alternative’s commentary on Syria closely aligns with the most hawkish sections of the US military and intelligence apparatus.

The central purpose of the bill is to outlaw and suppress all strikes, stoppages and work bans by workers throughout the construction, transport and offshore oil and gas industries.

The acquisition will intensify years of job destruction and restructuring by the mining and engineering contractor.

The job losses did not begin with the current Liberal-National government but with chronic underfunding that started with the Hawke-Keating Labor administrations three decades ago.

Thousands of miners could be afflicted by the deadly disease as a result of the erosion of safety standards by the major companies, with government and union complicity.

“America first” protectionism could lead to trade wars that would crash the global economy, with disastrous consequences for Australian capitalism.

The repressive response to a so-called riot in the Melbourne juvenile prison is the latest example of the brutality being inflicted on teenage prisoners in Australia.

In 2017, the centenary year of the Russian Revolution, the IYSSE will wage a fight for Trotskyism in opposition to the pseudo-left politics that have dominated on campus.

Nur Islam, a young Rohingya man who fled Burma, was on a temporary bridging visa, which blocked basic social and political rights, including to work.

The rail union is complicit in the widespread job-shedding and casualisation within the haulage sector.

Turnbull demanded “hard” economic and budgetary decisions that would “create winners and losers.”

A recent report points to a stark increase in rates of imprisonment and suicides.

Last weekend’s ballot again revealed that masses of people are deeply alienated from, and hostile to, Australia’s two-party system.

The unions are isolating a three-month strike by 140 workers at the German Creek mine in Queensland, even as the company announces sackings.

Inspectors will police standardised testing on behalf of the New South Wales government, with powers to close schools and dismiss “underperforming” teachers.

The new measures underscore the relationship between standardised testing schemes and the government’s cost-cutting agenda for public education.

These meetings will clarify the immense political questions raised by Trump’s victory. Who is responsible? What conclusions must be drawn?

Many noted that Trump’s victory was a product of the deepening social crisis and a breakdown of American democracy.

On both sides of the Pacific, the world’s most vulnerable people will be denied the basic right to seek protection, while many will face permanent separation from their families.

The campaign is a cynical attempt to divert attention from the crisis within the government by launching a “freedom of speech” crusade against the Racial Discrimination Act.

A panicked Australian political establishment has rushed to accommodate to the election of Trump, while seeking to work out its implications.

The government remains determined to get the bill through the Senate despite widespread public opposition to its blatant violation of international law.

The state Labor government and the unions are collaborating with management to axe the plant and destroy 1,000 jobs.

At a forum on “China’s rise,” former defence official Hugh White repeatedly warned of the danger of nuclear war.

Protest organisers made futile appeals to the Turnbull government and Labor, the very agencies responsible for the escalating persecution of the asylum seekers.

Union support for the new Australian Broadcasting Corporation enterprise agreement opens the way for even deeper attacks on jobs and conditions.

The trade unions that organised the protest promoted the fraud that Labor would defend the hospital and public health care.

Not only the “pivot to Asia,” but the whole framework of post-war alliances in Asia is being called into question.

Many spoke out against Trump and Clinton, who they correctly see as representatives of the banks and big business.

The measures are in response to growing demands by the financial elite for major cuts in social spending.

The unsafe working conditions now prevalent in every industry are the result of the collaboration of the trade unions with the decades-long drive by corporations to slash costs.

The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is seeking to impose an “orderly closure” of the plant.

The turmoil produced by the bids to disqualify the senators has intensified the Turnbull government’s precariousness.

Some of the most vulnerable people in the world, many fleeing the ravages of US-led wars, are bearing the brunt of a brazen repudiation of basic legal and democratic rights.

The growing use of police against campus protests is bound up with the transformation of universities into for-profit entities reliant on corporate funds and with close ties to the state.

The naval operations would be anything but routine, given that the Indonesian navy has already clashed with Chinese fishing trawlers in the South China Sea.

The National Union of Workers is working with the company to try to enforce an “orderly closure” of the Laverton facility.

The report documented the slave-like conditions for overseas workers which flow directly from the 417 visa arrangements enforced by Labor and Liberal-National governments.

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The article, though written in a satirical tone, is part of a campaign against the supposed lifestyle indulgences of the younger generation.

Despite the many revelations that have emerged since the theme park disaster, Arden Leisure continues to insist that there was nothing wrong with its safety procedures.

The protest was another attempt by the unions to divert mounting anger over the attacks on public health into appeals to the government and the promotion of illusions in Labor.

As universities have suffered punishing cuts, there has been a growth of facilities reserved for particular groups of students, defined in terms of race, gender or sexual preference.

Far from making a retreat, Washington’s response to its setbacks will be to escalate its diplomatic intrigues and military provocations in the Asia Pacific.

The US Studies Centre document examines risks to the US-Australia alliance, raising concerns, in particular, about the lack of public support for the US military build-up in Asia.

The internal warfare wracking the Liberal-National Coalition cannot be explained by a dispute over gun laws.

Five workers died within seven days, pointing to increasingly unsafe conditions in the construction and transport industries.

Unions New South Wales is seeking to channel widespread opposition to the attacks on healthcare behind the Labor Party.

The Committee on the Rights of the Child described the treatment of children in the Australian-controlled detention centre as “inhumane and degrading.”

Efforts by Australian politicians to sell their detention model have helped create the conditions where governments around the world are regularly in breach of international law.

The growth of poverty is a direct result of the policies implemented by successive governments, Liberal-National and Labor alike.

Australia’s government is seeking to emulate policies that have pushed tens of thousands of people off welfare.

The meeting was the culmination of a two-and-a-half year fight to establish an IYSSE club at the university.

By silencing the solicitor-general, the government is seeking to free itself of any constitutional or legal constraint.

Almost half those suffering some chronic health conditions are skipping treatment because of “out of pocket” costs.

Broadcasting vague and unsubstantiated police accusations has been taken to new depths with prejudicial allegations against two 16-year-olds.

The changes are part of a sweeping overhaul of wages and conditions that the Liberal-National government is attempting to impose across the public service.

The cost-sharing pact will mean billions of dollars being spent on upgrading facilities across Australia for the US military.

Labor’s statements indicate frustration within the US and Australian establishments over the Turnbull government’s refusal to order an operation in the South China Sea.

The Australian Workers Union is playing the central role in the destruction of the jobs, wages and conditions of steelworkers.

Thousands of working class people, retirees, small business owners and family farmers have been ruined by the banks.

Ford’s shutdown of its Australian production tomorrow is one of the final nails in the coffin of an entire industry, at the hands of the transnational auto companies.

The moves to close Sydney College of Arts are one expression of a broader assault on the social rights to education and culture.

The union continues to isolate a dispute by 140 mine workers at Anglo American’s German Creek coal mine even as the company moves to recruit strike-breakers.

The plan will set a model for the wholesale handover of health care to profit-making corporate operators.

Power went out across South Australia, cutting off electricity to 900,000 homes and throwing the state into chaos.

The limited stoppages are a continuation of the union’s attempts to isolate public sector workers and prevent a unified political and industrial fight against the government’s attacks.

Dawkins appealed for Labor and the Coalition government to develop a bipartisan policy to further slash education spending and deny access to working class youth.

The attack on Carr, an establishment figure with strong ties in Washington, is a sign that nothing less than full support for the US war drive against China will be tolerated.

The judgement marks another exposure of Canberra’s contempt for international law and its rank hypocrisy over the resolution of maritime disputes.

At the UN summit, Prime Minister Turnbull urged countries to adopt Australia’s “border protection” regime.

The trade unions have opposed any unified industrial and political action to win reinstatement of the Carlton & United Breweries maintenance workers.

Better-paying jobs are being eliminated throughout mining-related and manufacturing industries.

Canberra is so enmeshed in Washington’s proxy war in the Middle East that it could find itself on the frontline of a conflict with Russia.

The pseudo-left SAlt pushes various forms of identity politics, to cut across and suppress growing opposition to social inequality, the escalating assault on democratic rights, and war.

Many families live in precarious conditions and their children are more likely to have long-term health issues.