Continues from – Labor sic their pet attack dog Jordan Shanks (friendlyjordies) onto the unruly AUWU untermenschen Unlike Shanks, who ignored any oppositional view to his prejudicial narrative, I contacted people who have beefs with the AUWU,...
I must admit to feeling somewhat flummoxed. It’s never been a secret that government welfare policy is less about helping actual people and more about glossing the numbers. But when their policy decisions don’t even support economic principles, I’m...
“Twiggy’s” Minderoo Foundation named after the site of an Aboriginal massacre The Minderoo Foundation is named after Minderoo station, presently under occupation by Andrew Forrest. Minderoo is Aboriginal for “place of permanent and clean...
Imogen Bunting, 46, gets $491 a week through Newstart and her part-time work. She lives in her car and keeps her belongings in a storage shed. She doesn’t earn enough to find another place to live. She’s emblematic of a growing problem in Australia – people who are...
While riding the tram into the city on a recent Saturday night, I overheard a passionate conversation. It was between two middle-aged women, one of whom had been approached by a homeless woman on the way to the tram and asked for spare change. “I told her, I’m...
In 2007, there were 265 Indigenous children in “out of home care” in the NT. In 2013, the year Labor left office, there were 623. Researcher, Padraic Gibson explores Labor’s responsibility for the forced removal of so many thousands of children. By Padraic...
