Australian capitalist crisis - CPA
WEB17 hours ago · October 7, 2024. Photo: Michael Coghlan – flickr.com (CC BY-SA 2.0) A quiet desperation is gripping Australia’s bourgeois economists and political leaders. The economy, virtually flatlining, is about to be hit with the effects of a potentially destructive and long-term fall in the price of iron ore. Not only has the price dropped, but ...
Housing: speculators clean up - CPA
WEB17 hours ago · Housing prices have increased 46 per cent since 2020. The shortage of public and social housing is projected to increase from an already unacceptable high of 750,000 homes. The Labor government has committed zero dollars of new ongoing direct spending on public housing. Labor has committed $500 million a …
The homeless are not just statistics - CPA
WEB16 hours ago · Statistics tell us that life expectancy for the homeless in Australia is just 45 for men and 40 for women. Carly, Guy, and Jack are three of the more than 120,000 people who are homeless in Australia. They are broken people living in a broken society. These three are often seen outside a Woolworths Supermarket in Geelong.
Communist Party of Australia
WEBSep 23, 2024 · Drop the charges! Repeal the NSW anti-protest laws. The Communist Party of Australia has followed the events that took place at Sydney’s Port Botany on Sunday 24 March in which 19 protestors were arrested and charged under the state’s draconian anti-protest laws. These laws are a disgrace and must be repealed.
Good news for sexual harassment victims - CPA
WEB14 hours ago · October 7, 2024. The union movement has welcomed the Senate’s passage of the government’s Costs Protection Bill, which will make it easier for victim-survivors of workplace sexual harassment to pursue legal action against perpetrators. The Bill removes one of the main deterrents that victim-survivors face when considering court action ...
Indigenous health - CPA
WEB16 hours ago · More than a year after the release of Coroner Wilson’s findings regarding the deaths of three Aboriginal women in the remote Queensland town of Doomadgee, little has been done to address the underlying causes of Indigenous health disparities identified by the report. At a time when the NDIS and aged care have been the topic of national ...
Employment - CPA
WEBThe Communist Party of Australia calls for: The right to strike to be incorporated in law. A 35 hour week without loss of pay. Trade union-negotiated collective industry agreements in every workplace. Gender pay equality. Indigenous workers’ rights. Full employment and the right to secure work with full entitlements.
Communist Party of Australia
WEBCommunist Party of Australia. We acknowledge the Sovereignty of the First Nations’ Peoples. The Web CPA Archive Only. Archive 1998 – 2020. Guardian web. AMR.
14th CPA Congress – Resolution on AUKUS - CPA
WEBAdopted on 25-27 February 2022. The CPA condemns AUKUS, the Australian pact with the US and UK, aimed at confronting and containing China. Under AUKUS, Australia will acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, only the seventh country in the world to do so. AUKUS also includes an increase in the 2500 US troops that already rotate through ...
Health - CPA
WEBThe CPA rejects the monetisation of the system and stands for a health care system that first and foremost meets the needs of working class Australians and other marginalised and disadvantaged groups – especially Indigenous Australians – in their local communities, local health clinics and local hospitals. We strongly oppose the ...