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New data provided to the senate has continued to show alarmingly high rates of payment suspension by some providers under the Jobseeker system.

As the Australian Government pivots towards more and more funding for arms, and in particular the Navy, they are abandoning key research in humanity’s fight against climate change.

Working people all around the country are feeling the strain of trying to make ends meet, with skyrocketing prices for the basics of daily existence pushing budgets to breaking point.

The Productivity Commission’s report on Housing and Homelessness released last month exposes a fact working Australians know all too well – the dream of secure housing is eluding our grasp, and the government has no intentions of recovering it.

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The Senate passed a motion to split the government’s industrial relations legislation into four separate bills with backing from Senators Jacqui Lambie, David Pocock, the Coalition and One Nation. Introduced by Lambie and Pocock in mid-September, the bill sought to spin-off and pass areas of the ‘Closing Loopholes Bill’ they perceive as less fraught

The NSW Government is preparing to make a slight retreat from the privatisation free-for-all in the state in recent years. In a revealing move, the management of maintenance for 95,000 “social” housing properties will be brought back under public control, with the government labelling the current system “confusing, disjointed and unworkable”

It’s been almost two years on from the climate-change driven NSW floods that destroyed almost five-thousand homes, and severely impacted the lives of tens of thousands of northern rivers residents, yet many of these families remain forgotten and ignored.

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Centrelink repayments for 86,000 people have been paused over concerns the debts may be unlawful.

Albanese travelled to Washington to eagerly perform his role as representative of Australia, the lieutenant of American imperialism. The PM stood idly as US President Joe Biden, leader of the imperialist world, spread disgusting propaganda that cast doubt on the death toll in Gaza.

On the 25th of October, strike action led by the United Workers and Transport Workers Unions ended in a pay increase for roughly 1,400 Victorian dairy workers across 13 sites.

Over the course of this campaign, we have had many confronting and heated discussions with people from all sectors of society regarding our position on the Voice and Constitutional Recognition. We acknowledge the harmful impact this dialogue and referendum process have had on First Nations peoples and their communities. In looking at the research for this article and hearing from our First Nations comrades, we cannot help but see a malicious intent by the colonial state to deliberately use this issue to sow division and leave First Nations peoples exposed to emotionally and physically confronting situations.

To those taking the time to read this article, we wish to clarify that we do not attempt to belittle or attack the many individuals and organisations who have genuinely good intentions in support of the struggle for First Nations justice.