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More than 10,000 workers have taken to the streets around Australia in protest against the federal takeover of the CFMEU, with one sacked branch leader announcing a high court challenge to the laws “as a matter of urgency”.
Michael Ravbar, one of 21 Queensland leaders sacked in order to make way for an administrator, confirmed he would be the applicant for the case. “This is going to be the biggest challenge and the biggest fight that we’ve ever had,” Ravbar told the Brisbane crowd “but we’re all up for it”.
Leaders from other blue-collar unions spoke at rallies in several cities and federal Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather also spoke at the Brisbane rally, accusing the Labor government of “attacking” the CFMEU “on untested allegations”.
The action comes days after the union was placed into administration by the federal attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, amid allegations of links to organised crime and corruption in the construction arm.
Does community sport and free-to-air TV in Australia need gambling ads to survive?
Despite a 2023 bipartisan inquiry recommending the phase-out of all advertising for online gambling services in Australia, the Albanese government appears to be opting towards a partial prohibition. The gambling lobby – and the TV stations that benefit from this ad revenue – are on the defensive, and the same talking points are being repeated over and over.
Guardian Australia’s Matilda Boseley takes a look at the top three anti-gambling ad ban arguments to see if they stack up.
“A crisis entirely of humanity’s making.”
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, urged the world to “look to the Pacific and listen to the science” on Tuesday as he released two new reports on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum, the region’s most important annual political gathering. The region is in “grave danger” from rising sea levels, he said, and the world must “answer the SOS before it is too late”.
A surge in profits for Coles, reported today, threatens to draw Australia’s second-largest chain back into the public limelight as cost-of-living pressures become a central political issue for the next federal election.
‘The Sydney Metro is like a futuristic movie where everything is beautiful and peaceful’
“I was only in this new world an hour or so,” writes Melanie Tait, “but I want to live there now. I don’t want to take the normie train ever again.”
You can see more pictures of the newly opened commuter network here.
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