The Liberals aren't listening. How do you make your voice heard? Here's some inspiration for the Our Community Counts- March for a Fair Australia rally on July 6th? 1pm at Queen Victoria Gardens.
Best Budget Ever, RIGHT?! In case you missed it, here are are the best parts of the 2014 Federal Budget.
Geoff Shaw, Member for Frankston in the Victorian Parliament who holds the balance of power, said "in Australia we can't kill snake eggs but we are quite happy to kill an egg in the tummy and it should be the safest place for a baby to be" while threatening to revisit reproductive choice law before the election. He's currently en route to the US to study their abortion law. Not the science though.
Unionists talk about the collective benefits of joining a union. Think about what you'd miss out on though.
It's either ironic or pointed that on May 1st - the International Day of the Worker -Tony Abbott's Commission of Audit was released, suggesting the very young and very old take massive cuts to pay for... fighter jets and the other cool stuff he wants. The Guardian called it a "more brutish Australia". We agree, it's a right wing ideologue's wet dream.