Fair Work’s Sydney Train dispute decision is about eroding the right to strike
Contributed by Adam Carlton By ordering a stop to the Sydney rail strike and associated overtime ban, the Australian Fair Work Commission’s partisanship has been…
Rights
Women’s marches across the United States fight loss of rights
Contributed from New South Wales Huge numbers of women took part in street marches over the weekend and this signaled a new rise in the…
Federal Court orders Cash and others to hand over AWU raid related documents
Contributed by Joe Montero By ordering Employment Minister Michaelia Cash to hand over documents, relating to the Federal Police raid on the Australian Workers Union…
New laws against espionage and treason threaten whistleblowers journalists and the rest of us
Contributed by Adam Carlton While the Turnbull government turned its attention towards foreign political donations, mostly as a means of starving community not for profit…
Female Australian music industry members take a stand against sexual harassment
Contributed from Victoria Australian female musicians have taken a stand together against harassment in their industry. This has taken the form of an online letter…
The Turnbull government is trying to distract and silence us
Contributed by Ben Wilson The Turnbull government’s proposed law against foreign donations and interference in Australian political affairs is being soundly and widely condemned as…
There is a fight back against the Turnbull government’s shocking GetUp law
Contributed by Ugly The Turnbull government’s attack on GetUp is still going on. The first stage was to accuse the online campaign group to be…
The rest of the world has woken up, but migrants are still sleepwalking into Libya slave markets
This article by Bethan McKernan was published by the Independent (3 December 2017). It draws attention to the existence of the large scale slave trade…
Marriage equality is coming and attempts to stop it will fail
Contributed by Adam Carlton The good news is that the marriage equality bill presented before the Senate has been carried by a 43-12 vote. All…
Criminal bosses belong in a criminal court
This article by Robert Corr (Overland Newsletter 29 November 2017) makes the very good point that in Australia the law makes clear class distinctions. A…
