Pandemic exposes Australian employers’ exploitation of young backpackers
The political establishment’s only response to the abuses has been to expand such visa programs and extend them to jobless workers and school leavers.
•Michael Smith
Michael Smith
Australian state Labor government’s police arrest refugee protesters
Governments continue to condemn protests and invoke the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to silence dissent, even as they accelerate the reopening of the economy.
•Michael Smith
Mass unemployment, climate change and a toxic dump in Oxley
The following is an edited version of the speech delivered by Michael Smith to the Socialist Equality Party election public meeting in the Brisbane electorate of Oxley.
•Michael Smith