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Across the country on the weekend of the 25th and 26th of March, the Australian Communist Party launched its national Housing Campaign. Events were held in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to launch the event, with dozens of comrades and supporters in attendance to support us as we move to tackle the housing crisis for the working class.

The Albanese Government has renewed $67.5 million in funding for homelessness services’ wage support, which will go towards assisting the more than 120,000 Australians that are currently homeless. After months of doubt about the impacts of cuts, this measure will provide temporary relief to the immense pressure homelessness services are facing with the intensification of the housing crisis.

Over the last few weeks, a menacing trend has reared its head publicly at events across Australia in the form of public fascist attacks on the trans community. As per usual, fascist groups in Australia have once again jumped onto a trending issue in an attempt to spread their hatred and coax others into joining their forces.

Prime Minister Albanese has announced the proposed question for the referendum that would enable an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, along with the draft constitutional amendment that would make it law. The wording of the question is as follows:

“A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you want this proposed alteration?”

The IPCC has recently released its Sixth Assessment Report, warning that the planet is heading for catastrophic warming of over 2 degrees celsius and could by in excess of 3 degrees celsius if governments continue on their path of inaction. We must recognise that it is the working class who are most vulnerable to these climate impacts, and heed the warnings of this report that this is our ‘last chance decade’.

Across New South Wales, there has been an impressive streak of industrial action by frontline emergency workers as the Minns Labor Government takes over the reigns from twelve years of Coalition power.

In this Red Report Back

The Federal Labor Party’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) is once again under fire for its inability to address the Australian housing crisis. The Greens have opposed the fund since the 30,000 homes it proposes to build over five years are far less than the 75,000 ‘affordable’ homes required for that period.

Rent Increases Continue to Climb as Landlords Seize on Housing Supply Shortage as the national severity of the housing crisis on renters has been building.

he Physical Disability Council of NSW has joined calls for an end to no-grounds evictions in the lead up to the March state election, with representative Hayley Stone saying "For them, what might be a financial decision is a really catastrophic life situation for their tenants.”

There is a Lack of Housing for Domestic Violence Shelters asover 56,700 women forced to move out of home to separate from a violent partner in 2016, and higher demand surging in the post-lockdown landscape. 

CFFF Report shows Inflation is driven by company profits. The report claims the setting of higher prices by corporations accounted for 69% of added inflation, while in comparison labour costs only made up 18%.

Investigators from the United Nations torture prevention body, the Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) cancel their visits due to a lack of government cooperation.