For workers still being deliberately underpaid, it’s vital to ensure these laws are actually working.

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/39062562

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes going negative

When the Reserve Bank of Australia announced last week that it would ban all debit and credit card surcharges from October, RBA governor Michele Bullock framed it as overdue consumer relief.

What she did not say is that every small business in Australia that can no longer pass on card costs transparently will now build them into prices instead, feeding directly into the inflation measure Bullock herself is charged with taming.

The Trump White House has confirmed that its embassies are monitoring and combating the spread of anti-US information and proactively disseminating its own pro-US propaganda.

Police are raiding the homes of the protesters they attacked during the demonstration against the genocidal Israeli president, arresting and charging them with criminal offences

The Grace Tame Foundation, established by the Tasmanian-born survivor of child sexual abuse, has announced it is closing because securing funding is becoming "increasingly challenging".

The rule of law matters, which is one of the honourable things setting us apart from many of those we wage war against

An eighty-three-year-old man successfully appealed the automatic revocation of his permanent resident visa after being sentenced to 14 months in prison

The AFL has backed a new helmet that aims to reduce the risk of concussion, but a top neuroscientist is calling it "bad scientific practice".

The Zelda8 are women who staged a feminist protest at Victorian Trades Hall and raided a month later in response, which seems due to the labelling their action as antisemitic.

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So, one might expect that these women are alleged to have committed very serious crimes to have warranted their doors potentially being knocked down early morning.

So, why was VicPol’s notorious PORT unit raiding these women just after dawn?

Their crime was having draped an apron over the statue of feminist activist Zelda D’

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44881609

Perhaps the one silver lining to US imperialism, is that more people will want better public transport

Over two decades, Labor and the Coalition have jointly built the legal architecture of a police state at the expense of democratic rights. This series traces how.

The group also claims to have contributed to Adelaide University’s decision to cancel Francesca Albanese’s appearance