Feeder tickets, the bane of student unions. Ever since I started being a part of student politics, I’ve always pondered over why we would ever need a system like this. I just assumed they must be of benefit to the system in some way I have not been enlightened about. But alas, now I can safely […]
Continue Reading
Electrical workers at UQ are on strike demanding a wage increase of $3.70 per hour. After years of no pay increase members of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) are fighting back, holding an indefinite protest on campus on Sir Fred Schoenell Drive until UGL management agree to their demands. Student Action councillors spoke to picketing […]
Continue Reading
At the beginning of the year, the Liberal Party tried passing a despicable bill that would allow religious institutions to fire workers, and for religious schools to expel students just for being queer. The Religious Discrimination bill is a bigoted bill, that arose from the right-wing backlash to marriage equality.
Continue Reading
If you looked at the state of the world right now, you could be mistaken for thinking this is a make or break election. Faced with war, climate disaster, and rising inequality, things are bad for the international working class, and there is no sign that is going to turn around anytime soon. The Morrison […]
Continue Reading
It’s no surprise to anyone that the Liberal Party has time and time again bailed out on the question of the environment, but what alternative does the Labor Party offer? The short answer is none. The Labor Party has continued its commitment to coal and proposed significant cuts to climate spending, while massively increasing the […]
Continue Reading
An Anarchist Perspective on the Federal Election Let me start out by being totally unambiguous on our position: Anarchists are not opposed to voting or democracy. In fact, we freaking love it. We believe that truly democratic control of all aspects of our lives must be essential if humanity is to save itself from certain […]
Continue Reading
I’m writing now from our homebase in Austria, having spent the last week and a half sourcing and transporting supplies for Ukrainian refugees. We have covered almost six and half thousand kilometres in this period, and delivered supplies to: Uzhhorod, Ukraine; Tulcea, Romania; and Jaroslaw, Poland. Our focus has been logistical: establishing routes, vetting contacts, […]
Continue Reading
I remember learning about “collateral murder”: the unfortunate people killed by drones for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I imagine what it would be like if I were taken out in a drive-by shooting. Someone would care, but I would be dead. But the war machine doesn’t care. It doesn’t have […]
Continue Reading
Yoon’s victory indicates that the conservative’s administration is back in power in 5 years after the imprisonment of the previous conservative President Park Geun Hye. This also means that the ex-dictatorship and its power structure will be returning into Korean executive branch (read previous article for detailed explanation). This election and the events leading up to it, has already shown the deeply entrenched corruption that resides within Korean Prosecution, media, and the religious sector.
Continue Reading
Currently, across the globe, South Korea has split into factions for the upcoming 20th Presidential Election. Since the Liberation of the Korean Peninsula (from the Japanese Empire 15/08/1945) and its catastrophic civil war caused by the clash of two world superpowers – marking the start of the Cold War, most of the South Korean history has been tainted by series of Military Dictatorships. Only from the 1990’s “democratic” elections were allowed (under strict military supervision), however through corruption and state-run media, only the dictatorship’s party were elected.
Continue Reading