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- Mar 18, 2020
What is Socialism? Part 1
The word socialism has had its definition stretched to a point where it can be taken to mean almost anything.
- Mar 16, 2020
The Stayers
The delegates from Oxley – Karen Wilson, Margaret Morgan, and me – headed together to NSW Country Conference looking for altruistic Labor.
- Mar 10, 2020
Workers can’t trust the Coalition with COVID-19
"We are in uncharted territory," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last week as the world continues to learn about the novel...
- Mar 4, 2020
2019 Bruce Childs Lecture
In 2019 the New South Wales Parliament caught up with the world by passing the NSW Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill. Penny Sharpe, a...
- Feb 28, 2020
Morrison’s Infrastructure debacles hurt regional Australia
The regions need investment to survive and thrive, but instead all we get are exercises in self-aggrandisement from the Nationals and...
- Feb 28, 2020
Labor must be clear about what it is for, not just what it is against
As we enter the ninth year of a conservative NSW Government more interested in being a contracts manager than a provider of actual public...
- Feb 28, 2020
Winning Back the Bush
A focus on marginal seats in the cities has made NSW Labor's aim of forming government more difficult than ever. George Simon discusses...
- Feb 28, 2020
Labour hire rip-off is costing mining communities.
Over the past five to ten years, the mining industry has embraced the model of outsourcing permanent jobs and replacing them with casual...
- Feb 28, 2020
Workers and Environmentalists need to work together to build a better world.
“When workers politics are ahead of environmental politics, then we win”. Steve Murphy and Felicity Wade explore the history between the...
- Feb 28, 2020
After the Fires
Gratitude, guilt and gormless leadership. Paul Sefky looks at the aftermath of the devastating bushfire season. I have lived in my...
