The degree of the concentration of foreign ownership of the Australian dairy processing industry is about to intensify with the announcement by New Zealand-owned Fonterra that they are to sell their Australian operations to the giant French dairy company Lactalis in a $3.5 billion deal.

On the 24th August in a National Day of Action for Palestine, massive crowds of over 350,000 marched in Australian cities and regional towns, with growing demands for strong government action against Israel.

Proposals by the Pentagon to expand the defence and security provision of their Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), have far-reaching implications for Australia. The hidden agenda behind the proposals is particularly revealing; if implemented, it is likely to foist a huge financial burden with increased diplomatic and military responsibilities upon Australia at the behest of the United States.

The meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, between Presidents Trump and Putin was a setback for the arrogant and boastful US leader.
It came just 9 days after a 10-day deadline for a ceasefire by the Russians, demanded by Trump, had expired without any cessation of hostilities.

This week the federal government held its Productivity Round Table talkfest in Canberra.

Various proposals are circulating in relation to the recognition of a Palestinian state.
On the one hand, the Australian government’s decision is a welcome break from the slavish following of US protection of Israel at the United Nations where the US has used its Security Council veto 49 times to block resolutions critical of Israel. That veto, together with billions of dollars of arms and cooperation between the US and ...

The Australian American Leadership Dialogue (AALD) currently meeting in Adelaide has brought two US congressmen to Australia to try and breathe life into the ailing AUKUS arrangements.
The AALD was established in 1992 by comprador capitalist Phil Scanlon as a “private diplomatic initiative” bringing together Australian and US leaders from a range of backgrounds.

Last week I went for a short walk along Seacliff Beach, one part of the unbroken stretch of suburban Adelaide beaches just kilometres form the CBD.
Every step of the way was littered with the washed-up bodies of dead marine life.

The Anti-labour Party administration is holding a Productivity gabfest in Canberra 19-21 August. Humphrey McQueen sets ‘productivity’ as a driver for the structured dynamics of how the exploitation of every wage-slave must be intensified if the rule of capital is to persist. 

Political controversy between the two major parties in Taiwan has carried all the hallmarks of classic US-led Cold War rivalries. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which managed to form a minority government following presidential elections last year, has recently attempted to challenge the main opposition nationalist Kuomintang (KMT). 

How can you measure a crowd? The cops said 90,000, while protest leaders estimated 300,000 marched for Palestine in Sydney on August 3. 
Frequent protesters can measure crowd size by how many friends they meet (apart from those they went with).

An injury to one is an injury to all. 
The day before the Sydney Bridge March, people stood for journalist Mary Kostakidis against Zionist political and legal attacks. 

The spectacular collapse of support for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in recent elections in Japan can be attributed to two significant factors: their failure to identify important issues in domestic politics which include living standards for the mass of the population and an unresolved corruption scandal; their failure to act effectively with important foreign policy considerations which include tariffs and the Trump administration and increasing militarisation of the ...

An “inclusive” Australian Labor Party initiated conference, The Economic Reform Roundtable (ERR) will be held between August 19 and 21, targeting taxation and other means of making the Australian economy more dynamic.

What joy to march on the Harbour Bridge! To see those giant girders overhead, made by long dead workers, still remembered. 
History in 1932. Opening celebration in those dark Depression days. A forgotten fascist slashed the ribbon. Those workers, the real history. 

Despite dominating world political and diplomatic developments since the end of the Second World War, the US now appears to be losing its cutting edge. Reliable statistical information has cast a rather different light over US claims to be a leading super-power.

On Sunday 27 July, about three hundred people from a number of grass roots environmental organizations rallied on the steps of SA Parliament House to heighten public awareness of the devastating impact of global warming and climate change on Earth's oceans.

The Zionist regime’s Israel Occupation Forces yesterday stormed the Freedom Flotilla’s Handala.
Two Australians were on the boat, Robert Martin – human rights activist; and Tania “Tan” Safi – Journalist and organizer of Lebanese descent.
The boat was carrying aid for the children of Gaza.

We are posting a message from the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement and the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions – Gaza, released on July 23.  We are certain that it will further encourage the activities of Australian union members in support of Palestine , as well as of those community members picketing companies with links to the Israeli murder machine – eds.

PM Albanese yesterday confirmed another non-refundable gift of $800 million to help pump-prime the ailing shipyards of our AUKUS “partners”, the US and British imperialists.
Together with an earlier gift of the same amount, it means that $1.6 billion of our money has been poured into the AUKUS black hole. More is to come.