Reports reveal youth homelessness crisis in Australia
A total of 38,631 young people aged 15–24 made homelessness services requests without family support or stable housing in 2023–24.
•Jason Quill, Eric Ludlow
By Patrick Martin
Australia: Second major fire in nine months at Melbourne chemical factory
The Derrimut factory was the site of an October blaze, in which 44-year-old worker Reece Martin was killed and two others were injured.
•Jason Quill, Martin Scott
Australian youth survey highlights cost-of-living crisis
A staggering 72 percent of young people aged 18–24 believe they will never be able to buy a home. 97 percent reported feelings of worry, anxiety or pessimism in the past 12 months.
•Jason Quill, Eric Ludlow
Minamata: How a Japanese corporation poisoned a community and an American photographer fought to expose it
Director Andrew Levitas last week publicly rebuked MGM, which has still not announced a North American release for this remarkable but now almost two-year-old movie.
•Jason Quill, Richard Phillips
Australia: Three industrial workplace deaths in three days
The deaths are part of an ongoing epidemic of workplace fatalities.
•Jason Quill
The Dry: Murders in a small Australian town
Is the drought-stricken country town simply a “black hole,” as the local hotel bartender asides, or is this a common situation for rural areas across Australia?
•Jason Quill
Australia: Chinese immigrant meatworkers locked out after protesting alleged assault
The meatworkers' union acted as strike-breaker, shutting down the Chinese workers’ principled act of solidarity with their victimised colleague.
•Jason Quill, Patrick O’Connor
The Nightingale: Australia’s brutal colonial past exposed
Jennifer Kent’s film follows Irish convict Clare Carroll through the Tasmanian wilderness in 1825, as she seeks revenge for a terrible act of violence committed against her family.
•Jason Quill
Australian CEO pay hits record high, boosted by JobKeeper subsidies
Large companies have exploited government COVID-19 bailout schemes to increase executive rewards.
•Jason Quill
Special Forces commander admits Australian troops committed war crimes in Afghanistan
The systematic killings and other abuses are the inevitable product of the colonial-style invasions and occupations mounted by the US and its allies.
•Jason Quill
True History of the Kelly Gang: Little resemblance to the real story
Justin Kurzel’s film is the 16th about the late 19th century Australian bushranger and anti-establishment outlaw.
•Jason Quill, Richard Phillips
More Australian war crimes exposed in Afghanistan
The exposure of Ziauddin’s killing highlights the years of coverups by successive Australian governments, both Liberal-National and Labor, of military abuses in the Middle East.
•Jason Quill
Australian state government and health union shut down pathology strike
The Health Services Union welcomed the Victorian Labor government’s application for the federal Fair Work Commission to ban the stoppage.
•Jason Quill, Oscar Grenfell