Income support
No Australian should live in poverty. And no Australian should be punished for living in poverty. Those living in poverty in Australia aren’t just subjected to the struggles of being poor …
Agriculture
The issues Australian farmers are dedicated to a sustainable and secure food supply for the nation but they face significant variability due to global warming, volatility of commodity price indices and …
Major party stitch-up
As anticipated, what was touted as political financing reform is just another mechanism for propping up major parties. It was a done deal with no justification, no public parliamentary scrutiny …
Huge backflip on environment
Report after report shows Australia failing to arrest the decline of its natural ecosystems. You would think this government might be more likely to care, having said it would but, …
Media
Super rich tech to rule the world? The issues Digitisation has allowed concentrations of big technology companies – Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft – amassing great wealth and influence …
Family violence
There is no panacea to gendered violence. There is no one solution. We will not go close to achieving the government’s ambitious goal to end gendered violence within a generation …
Stop locking up children!
‘Ultimately it (detaining young people) will lead to worse outcomes for children and young people, and it will make the community less safe.’ Associate Prof. Catia Malvaso lead researcher in child protection …
Transport
The issues The transport sector is currently the third-largest source of greenhouse emissions in Australia and will have the highest percentage share of emissions by 2030. Not enough is being …
Lisa Griffiths contests WA election
WA State President Lisa Griffiths will be contesting the new state electorate of Bibra Lake as an independent candidate in the upcoming WA state election in March. Due to the …
Standing with First Nations
Successive Governments have failed our First Nations People. In 1992, Paul Keating in his Redfern speech called on us to, in essence, participate in the truth-telling: … the starting point might be to …