Despite concerns from women’s advocacy groups, Scott Morrison has given the green light to a sham parliamentary inquiry into the family law system.
The CEO of Women’s Safety NSW said that there were questions about...
Attorney General Christian Porter plans to put a package of ‘religious discrimination’ bills to the parliament by the end of the year. If passed, these laws will weaken protections for women, LGBTIQ people and...
A family of Tamil asylum seekers have been given a temporary reprieve from being deported back to Sri Lanka, where they face a very real threat of persecution and retaliation from the government.
Despite...
This statement was produced by the Socialist Party National Committee and was discussed and agreed to at our 2019 National Conference in early October.
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At an international level, capitalism is facing a number of...
An anti-democratic union busting bill passed parliament’s lower house on August 1. The government’s ‘Ensuring Integrity’ bill is something from an authoritarian regime’s law book and the union movement must mobilise to stop it....
The Coalition government is refusing to increase Newstart payments for the unemployed. This is despite pressure mounting on them from many quarters including the trade unions, NGOs, opposition parties, and even some Coalition MPs.
A...
The dust has now settled after the May federal election.
The final results give the Liberal-National Coalition 77 out of 151 seats in the lower house, a very slim majority. In the Senate they...
Labor have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The May 18 federal election saw the right wing Liberal-National Coalition cling to power. The result was at odds with the polls, all...