Fraser Liberal News Today

Paul Keating responds to Alexander Downer; Administrative Appeal Tribunal abolition; energy market intervention; giant batteries; robo-debt experience; letter to Prince Harry.

The new electoral laws dramatically escalate legislation that was first introduced four decades ago, to try to prop up the parliamentary establishment in the face of intensifying political disaffection.

  National Cabinet’s decision to half the number of incoming arrivals to Australia is a blow to 34,000 Australians abroad wishing to return home. The Australian government’s decision to halve the number of incoming travellers from 6,070 to 3,035 per week could see 18,000 overseas Australians with tickets to return to Australia stranded by the end of August. The new caps were introduced to reduce the strain on the state hotel quarantine programmes but are bad news to stranded Australians wi...

National cabinet’s decision to halve the number of international arrivals to Australia is yet another blow to the 34,000 Australians overseas trying to return home. But it is also far more than that. As international law scholars, our view is this latest move — 18 months into the pandemic — contravenes Australians’ right to enter their country. Back in the 1950s, Australia was keenly involved in the drafting of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — one of two co...

Australian Trotskyist Barry Jobson dies aged 78 Barry Jobson, 1942–2020 (Photo: WSWS Media) From the time he joined the Socialist Labour League (SLL), predecessor of the SEP, in 1974 Comrade Barry was a tireless fighter for the program of Trotskyism in the working class, particularly in the Elcar railway workshops in the south-western Sydney suburb of Chullora where he worked for many years. One of the most significant features of his work, which he carried out in collaboration with fellow le...