Key activists with Extinction Rebellion reveal plans and tactics for a prolonged shut down of major cities across Australia, as time runs out to fight the climate crisis.
Crossbenchers say there is a “virus corrupting our democracy” with the major parties weakening integrity safeguards and environmental protections on behalf of corporate donors.
The Prime Minister is blocking all attempts to establish a promised federal corruption watchdog despite hundreds of billions being spent on economic recovery. Here’s why.
The world’s most eminent climate scientists and biologists believe we’re headed for the collapse of civilisation, and it may already be too late to change course.
The government’s flagged major reforms to industrial relations will be bad for workers, but to understand why unions lack bargaining power it’s essential to trace the blame back to the Accords under the Hawke and Keating Labor governments.
Barely a week goes by without a federal corruption scandal but politicians are able to operate with near total impunity because the government continues to delay its promised federal integrity commission.
Impoverished workers excluded from the Jobkeeper wage subsidies are queuing up at food banks around the country but Treasurer Josh Frydenberg refuses to expand the program despite a major bungle leaving an extra $60 billion at his disposal.
The looting of the taxpayer by fossil fuel giants under cover of COVID-19 is on in earnest, with the Prime Minister’s hand-picked coterie of corporate executives driving the country’s economic recovery without oversight, transparency or accountability.
The Greens have rejected the government’s austerity agenda and are pushing an ambitious reshaping of the economy that includes jobs guarantees for young people and a means-tested basic income for all.
Underemployment is at the highest level since records began following an unprecedented drop in working hours, and these numbers will worsen as the government insists on cutting spending and ignoring pleas by economists to pursue a “full employment” agenda.