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Fair Go For Pensioners is going for a major campaign on pensions

12/04/2022 The Editor 0

By the President of FGFP Victoria (Joe Montero) On 23 November, Fair Go For Pensioners held its Annual General Meeting (AGM). This year had brought significant challenges, with the ongoing impact of Covid and lockdowns. […]

Bushfire victims are still being ignored and this must change

11/12/2020 The Editor 0

Bushfire victim Janet Reynolds is one of the forgotten survivors and prepared to do something about it. She has joined up with GetUp in a campaign to force the Morrison government to honour its promise […]

LIFE launches a week of action to defend vulnerable Australians

09/14/2020 The Editor 0

By Joe Montero Australia’s new social movement Living incomes For Everyone, also known by its acronym – LIFE, is launching its response this week to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s economic statement on the 24 September, and […]

Effective change is the only choice there is

09/01/2020 The Editor 0

By Joe Montero It is not all that unusual to hear people respond to any suggestion to change the political course of the nation by branding it idealistic and that it could never happen. Anyone […]

Countering the unrestricted market with the alternative of a social economy

08/24/2020 The Editor 0

By Joe Montero The first article of this series explained that the emerging economic crisis has bee ncaused by a combinaition of both structural problems within the economy and the coronavirus pandemic. The second noted […]

Time to shift from containment to elimination as the answer to the Coronavirus

08/10/2020 The Editor 0

By Joe Montero It is obvious that Australia is heading into a new Covid-19 outbreak. This may have begun in Victoria. It is now raising its head in New South Wales, and it is highly […]

Raising incomes and constructive investment depend on a movement to make it a reality

06/28/2020 The Editor 0

By Joe Montero As we approach July, two things are becoming increasingly clear. A depression rivaling the one that came 70 years ago could be in the making, and the top echelons in the business […]

Pandemic demands the mobilisation of society

04/06/2020 The Editor 0

By Joe Montero Recent days have seen the beginnings of real leadership in the response to the Covid-19 epidemic. Not from the Australian government, which continues to lag behind what is needed.