Northern Rock–return to state intervention

BRITISH PM Gordon Brown has nationalised the Northern Rock bank after attempts to fend off its collapse failed. In a humiliating back flip, his New Labour government has used

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Wharfies defiant in face of management bullying

Eighteen wharfies at the bulk goods handler Quantem at Coode Island, West Melbourne, have been locked out.

Labor’s anti-immigration measures boost One Nation—we need to fight back

One Nation’s win in the Secret Harbour by-election in Perth saw it take a safe Labor seat with a swing of 18.7 per cent. This shows how much of threat Hanson really is.

Labor’s detention policy brings new refugee crisis on Naoero

There are more than 100 asylum-seekers on Naoero. On 24 August, scores of asylum-seekers waited over ten hours outside the Eigigu supermarket for rice that had been unavailable for weeks.