Australian High Court permits bogus postal vote on marriage equality
8 September 2017
The judges averted an immediate political crisis and gave the go-ahead for an unprecedented plebiscite on an elementary legal and democratic right.
Australian state government and health union shut down pathology strike
7 September 2017
The Health Services Union welcomed the Victorian Labor government’s application for the federal Fair Work Commission to ban the stoppage.
The dual citizenship furore in the Australian parliament: What is at stake for the working class?
6 September 2017
The citizenship crisis is an attempt to suppress anti-war sentiment and class tensions by promoting nationalism and patriotism.
Australian parliament overshadowed by Korean war crisis and disqualification of MPs
6 September 2017
The parliamentary proceedings pointed to the close connection between the danger of war and the reactionary drive to ensure the undivided loyalty of all members of parliament.


Australian governments knew about the dangers of airforce fire-fighting foam for decades
6 September 2017
The chemicals which are used in fire-fighting foam have been found at dangerous levels in water supplies near Royal Australian Air Force bases.
Australia: Socialist Alternative conference seeks new political trap for rising discontent
5 September 2017
The pseudo-left outfit signaled it will deepen its collaboration with Labor and the trade unions amid a crisis of the entire political establishment.
Australia: National Tertiary Education Union attempts to suppress struggle against job cuts at Western Sydney University
4 September 2017
The jobs of around 150 professional staff will be destroyed and all security employees retrenched, while other devastating cuts are being prepared.
Australian government urges universities to tear up staff conditions
1 September 2017
The tertiary education trade unions will use this week’s Fair Work Commission ruling to intensify their work to stifle all resistance by increasingly discontented university workers.