High cost of living and inflation the result of bad debt and stagnant wages
Contributed by Joe Montero Economics writer for The Guardian and policy director at the Centre for Future Work, Greg Jericho, is right to counter the…
Economy
Is Australia ‘giving away’ its natural resources?
The following article Diane Kraal is an expert on Australian taxation law and policy and an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash Business School (The…
The headwinds driving down the economy are still blowing
Contributed by Joe Montero Wall Street shares are going down again due to bad news about the American economy. The S&P 500 index has just…
Oligarchs are running everything and most want it to end
Contributed by Joe Montero Multibillionaires are organising themselves ever more tightly into a united political force. They may not be concentrated into a single political…
Video: The working class of America is angry. Very angry
following is a speech deliver by Senator Bernie Sanders to an event of the Machinists Union in the United States. He talks about how badly…
Price gouging fines targeting Coles and Woolworths are necessary
Contributed from Victoria The Albanese government’s decision to bring gin a law that imposes substantial fines on supermarkets guilty of price gouging is a good…
Video: BRICS drives de-dollarisation of global economy
Video from Lena Petrova Fifty-nine nations had applied to join the BRICS alliance on 10 June this year. The process of de-dollarisation has picked up…
Abysmal Centrelink payments create serious poverty and must be increased
Contributed from Victoria Given the neglect in last month’s budget of those who depend on Centrelink payments, the continuing lag far behind. So are the…
The CSIRO faces more cuts and loss of capacity for research
Contributed by Ben Wilson Something is very wrong when the nation’s most important research body is being gutted. This is exactly what the Albanese government…
This year’s deferral budget betrays the battlers and gives to the rich
The following response to this year’s federal budget was written by Joe Montero as President of Fair Go For Pensioners Victoria This week’s federal budget…
