Facts on the tax and mining profits
Surging commodity prices
- Since 2004 the contract price of iron ore has risen 600 per cent. High quality coking coal has risen by 400 per cent.
- This year’s contracts...
Mining bosses will say anything to protect their profits
The mining companies’ hysterics are about maintaining their massive profits. This is an issue of class—with the rich defending their wealth from being taken to fund public spending.
And they...
Balance of power will challenge Greens
Labor’s slide in the polls has seen substantial numbers of voters move towards The Greens.
On current polling, The Greens will win between 12 and 16 per cent of the...
Solar policy is designed to fail
The federal government revealed the first projects shortlisted for funding under its Solar Flagships scheme back in May.
The scheme provides $1.5 billion over six years, or just $250 million...
Mobilisation the key to climate fight
Labor has a climate policy basically identical to the Liberals. Rudd's drop in support after junking the CPRS, and the votes heading to The Greens, suggest a substantial minority...
Story of work under the Intervention taken to the unions
In June Peter Inverway (PI), a construction worker from Kalkaringi (Wave Hill) in the NT toured Sydney and Melbourne. Under Labor’s “reformed” CDEP (Community Development Employment Program) PI is...
Macklin’s plan for individual home ownership a delusion
In June, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin released a government discussion paper, Indigenous Home Ownership Issues. The paper offers no strategy to adequately house the thousands of Aboriginal people...
Amended NT Intervention – still racist, still discriminatory
On June 21, exactly three years since the introduction of the NT Intervention, the Labor government passed legislation that will entrench and extend John Howard’s racism.
Minister Jenny Macklin describes...
Cops slammed over Palm Island cover up, but where’s the justice?
Queensland’s anti-corruption watchdog, the Crime and Misconduct Commission, has released a damning condemnation of police conduct over the death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee in 2004. The ensuing political...
China’s workers want to lose their chains
There is a rising tide of anger and determination amongst Chinese workers. In the face of some of the most regressive labour laws in the world, workers are openly...
Ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan product of imperial rivalry
Some 400,000 people have fled violent pogroms in southern Kyrgyzstan, according to the United Nations. Entire Uzbek neighbourhoods were reduced to ruins as almost half of the region’s roughly...
Israel’s murder exposes terrorist state
Israel’s murderous attack on peace activists attempting to bring much needed aid to Gaza has outraged the world. The horrific deaths of nine activists has isolated Israel internationally. Even...
Gulf oil spill: seas sacrified for profits
It’s hard to grasp the awesome scale of the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. It is definitely the US’s biggest ever...
It should be clear—there is no future in nuclear
Nuclear power is no solution to climate change, explains Ben Dharmendra
The nuclear industry is using the climate crisis to push nuclear power as clean, green, cheap and safe. It...
Starting the renewable energy revolution
The shelving of the CPRS until 2013 is a good thing—and not just because the scheme was hopelessly flawed. It means there is now space for a real debate...
Crisis in the Eurozone: how deep does it go?
The debt crisis is Greece is the only the most severe case of government debt problems across Europe. Noe Wiener explain how the problems have built up and why...
1972 Black Moratorium: How unions walked out for Aboriginal rights
The Black Moratorium marches in 1972 were amongst the most successful protests for Aboriginal rights ever in this country. Paddy Gibson explains how the unity between Aboriginal activists and...
The tangled roots of Labor
Looking at Labor’s history can help us understand the party’s inadequacies today, explains Erima Dall
RUDD WAS a bitterly disappointing alternative to Howard. His failure to act on climate change,...
Ark case delayed as thousands rally
Thousands rallied across the country as building worker Ark Tribe faced trial on June 15. He is the second person to face six months jail for refusing to answer...
NAPLAN aftermath shows the need to fight
Students nationwide sat the National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests in May after the education unions called off their proposed moratorium on the tests. While representatives of the...
Vale Rosemary ‘Waratah Rose’ Gillespie, 1942-2010
Solidarity was saddened to hear of the sudden death of activist and human rights campaigner, Waratah Rose on 22 June. Many people knew Waratah most recently as a passionate...
Things they say
They have dropped on the Australian people a socialist style funding and tax device where the Government is now your silent partner.
Letter by the mining company Fortescue to its...
