As long as we depend on our exploiters, we must take nothing for granted. This is the bitter lesson learned recently by Australia’s Uber drivers, who are facing the uphill battle to be recognised as, in fact, employed by Uber. The struggle for the rights workers are entitled colours a new but familiar era of class antagonism in Australia.

Liberals Throw Low Blow at the RTBU / Education Staff Take on Victorian Catholic Schools /  Queensland to Hold Housing Crisis Summit / Culture Vultures and Climate Criminals – Labor’s Indigenous Tokenism   

Train Workers Keep the Thunder Rolling / Party Gets Down to Support Striking Nurses and Midwives / Half-Measures and Some Gains from the Jobs and Skills Summit / NSW Spending $700, 000 A Year to Keep Kids Imprisoned