Wednesday 22 June 2022

An insightful guide to Australian labour history

When a young socialist activist asked me for some suggested reading on Australian labour history it started me wondering what would be a good starting point. I ended up suggesting Humphrey McQueen's A New Brittania (1970) because it was a critique of previous writing on Australian labour history from a perspective that recognised the impact of imperialism and racism on the development of the Australian labour movement.

An insightful guide to Australian labour history | Green Left
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/insightful-guide-australian-labour-history
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Watchdog examines terrorist jail powers

Since 2016, the Commonwealth Criminal Code has had a scheme for the continuing detention of "terrorist offenders", where a court is satisfied that a person poses an unacceptable risk of committing a serious terrorism offence if released into the community at the end of their sentence.

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