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Robo-debt: A tale of two time machines

Type
Article
Category
Austerity
Centrelink
  • By James Fleming
  • 19.Feb.19
  • 0 Comments

In the era of robo-debt, the social welfare state has been so eviscerated that there is nothing left to strip, so corporate tax cuts must be funded by stealing welfare from the past. Think of it as the Coalition Government’s austerity time machine.

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Sirius apartment complex
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Article
Category
Public housing

Being houso

  • By Lena Rutkowski
  • 18.Feb.19
  • 0 Comments

Years later, Ana would confide that when she got lifts home, she’d ask her friends to drop her off around the block so no one would know she was houso.

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Article
Category
Journalism
Long read

‘A river of people moving north’: sketches from the ‘migrant caravan’

  • By Mark Isaacs
  • 15.Feb.19
  • 1 Comment

Walk and wait, wait and walk. They only have one purpose on this trip and it’s to reach the United States. Their life, for the time being, centres on migration.

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Review
Category
Politics

The long road back to progressive politics: on Jeff Sparrow's Trigger Warnings

  • By Gary Pearce
  • 15.Feb.19
  • 2 Comments

Trigger Warnings is a brave book, best read as a call for the left to re-examine its strategies during a period of immense danger, to take stock of its key resources and to align itself with the experience of ordinary people without lessening its focus on sexism, racism or homophobia.

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Article
Category
alt-right
Politics

The 14 rules For Eternal Fascism: Jordan Peterson and the far right

  • By Ben Brooker
  • 14.Feb.19

The extent to which Peterson’s Weltanschauung generally, and his bestselling self-help book 12 Rules for Life specifically, answers to Eco’s features of fascism is striking.

In the wake of a Leviathan: The Eastern Australian Current and the future of our oceans

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Article
Category
Climate change
  • By Jess Cockerill
  • 13.Feb.19
  • 1 Comment

Female genital appearance: what is normal?

Type
Article
Category
Sexuality
The Body
  • By Camille Nurka
  • 12.Feb.19
  • 4 Comments

History from below: a reading list with Marcus Rediker

Type
Article
Category
radical history
  • By Jared Davidson
  • 11.Feb.19
  • 1 Comment

Some changes to our editorial team

Type
Announcement
Category
News
  • By Editorial team
  • 11.Feb.19

Whatever happened to the arts of peace?

Type
Article
Category
History
Pacifism
  • By Alexander Wells
  • 8.Feb.19
  • 4 Comments

Telling the untold stories: Alexis Wright on censorship

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Article
Category
Reading
Writing
  • By Alexis Wright
  • 8.Feb.19
  • 2 Comments
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