Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KUHN Rick
Australian governments and their counterparts around the world have largely succeeded in desensitising us to avoidable mass deaths and disease. In the week to 6 July, 294 people died of COVID-19 in Australia, more than 40 a day.
In May, OzSAGE, an organisation of health-related experts, issued (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
None of the parties involved in the Djokovic visa affair comes out of it very well, writes Dave Kellaway.
At the time of writing it is still unclear whether Novak Djokovic will be able to defend his title in the Australian grand slam tennis event.
Djokovic himself has always been very cagey (...)
, by FIELDES Diane , SMALL Jerome, STERN Kim
The great achievement of Australia’s ruling class in the second year of the pandemic was its relentless and ultimately successful campaign to destroy COVID Zero. We’re now starting to get an idea of what our brutal new reality of “living with COVID” actually looks like.
“What I witnessed yesterday (...)
, by O’SHEA Louise
CFMEU officials attempt to guard the union’s office during an attack by anti-vax protesters (including many CFMEU members) on Monday 20 September
In a frightening show of force, marauding fascist mobs have taken over the streets of Melbourne for three days running. They have smashed up union (...)
, par FIELDES Diane
p>NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told this morning’s press conference, “What we don’t want is another lockdown”. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the same thing. But the Liberals are responsible for half the country now going into one.
Berejiklian’s instinct to put business interests above public (...)
, by FIELDES Diane
There are now more than 150 exposure venues and 65 locally acquired COVID-19 cases in NSW. And someone has returned on a plane to Melbourne and infected at least one more person with it. Yet still the NSW government refuses to lock down all of Sydney.
As details of the new breakout became (...)
, by TAYLOR Daniel
Why is the outbreak in Victoria striking the public housing towers, the meatworks, the aged care centres, and the poorest suburbs? Because the disease thrives wherever inequality is high and workers’ rights are restricted.
The year of COVID-19 has been full of surprises, but some things remain (...)
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