Less than 1% of rental properties are affordable for low-income families in Sydney and the Illawarra, according to a new report launched on April 21 by Anglicare Sydney.
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The electioneering has . In a campaign set to be dominated by economic issues, the Coalition and Labor are locking horns over who can best manage our finances, protect jobs and make housing more affordable. The Greens predictably decry the major parties, including their .
The federal government's move to reintroduce the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is an attempt to make it harder for the unions to go in and fight for workers' rights and conditions in all parts of the construction industry.
Conditions in the building industry are now extremely varied. At the Barangaroo development the big builders are doing massive hours but their workers are paid decently and their safety is reasonable to good.
In response to a recent vote in the lower house of Brazil鈥檚 parliament in favour of impeaching Workers鈥 Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil鈥檚 two main coalitions of social movements issued the statement below on April 17.
Rousseff is under attack over a series of corruption scandals, but the forces allied against her 鈥 the political, media and corporate elite 鈥 have themselves been implicated in corruption. Many in Brazil, including left opponents of Rousseff鈥檚 government, see the impeachment as an institutional coup by the right wing.

A commissioned by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage has found communities across New South Wales are big fans of renewable energy.
An overwhelming 91% of the 2000 people surveyed across NSW said they support the use of renewables to generate electricity.
Four lawmakers from Spain's far-left Podemos party and its allies are participating in a week-long hunger strike to try to rally public support for refugees.
The lawmakers began their hunger strike on April 16 and called on people to occupy public squares for 24 hours on April 22, the day their actions end. The hunger strike is a gesture of support for those people at the center of Europe's biggest migrant crisis since World War II.
Twenty-four hour assemblies were planned for a dozens cities on April 22.
Black Panther #1
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Marvel comic series
The new Black Panther is 鈥淏lack as hell鈥 鈥 a phrase Ta-Nehisi Coates used to describe himself on Twitter a week ahead of the release of Black Panther #1, the highly anticipated first issue in a new 12-part Marvel series penned by Coates.
That's no small thing in the comics world. Sure, comic companies have begun to show an understanding that their core audience is diverse, increasingly female and of colour.
Sarah Eleazar is a Pakistani journalist and member of the socialist Awami Workers Party (AWP). She co-edits Tajdeed, a left research journal in Urdu.
Eleazar will be a featured guest at the in Sydney on May 13-15. She spoke with 91自拍论坛 Radio on Melbourne community station 3CR in March about the fight for women鈥檚 liberation and socialism in Pakistan. The first part of an abridged transcript is below.
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Sun filters through as a golden blur in low-resolution photos and a few seconds of shaky video clips 鈥 evoking the difficulty of getting footage of a protest the Nauru government does not want you to see.
But even with three fences in the way, you can still see the 144 asylum seekers, including children, who are protesting against their detention in the Nauru Regional Processing Centre.
The struggles of Kurdish women in Rojava Kurdistan (Northern Syria) became known to many people in the world during the brutal attacks of ISIS against the city of Koban锚 in September 2014.

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