After weeks of imperialist threats and opposition violence, the elections for Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly (ANC) took place on July 30. The result was a huge of more than 8 million voters, around 41% of the electorate, which gave Chavismo a much-needed shot in the arm.
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There are few subjects more reliably depressing than the problem of impending climate chaos.
In some ways, the daily dumpster fire that is the Donald Trump administration is a welcome distraction from the increasingly dire predictions of the Hell on Earth awaiting us if we do not drastically and immediately alter our trajectory.
It is worth going to see聽An聽Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, however, for the same reason that it was valuable to see it鈥檚 prequel,聽An Inconvenient Truth, over a decade ago: Through these films we can come to understand how the liberal establishment proposes to tackle this, the mother of all capitalism鈥檚 crises.
On July 19, 2013, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stood beside Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O鈥橬eill and said in a classical Rudd pretentious drone: 鈥淵ou won鈥檛 be settled in Australia. You鈥檒l be sent to Nauru or Papua New Guinea for reprocessing and resettlement.鈥
Effective immediately, everyone who came by boat seeking asylum would never be given protection in Australia.
More than one-third of Centrelink debt recovery cases have been overturned by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
It has set aside 960 Centrelink debt decisions out of 2699 appeals lodged from March last year and a further 132 were 鈥渧aried鈥.
The data shows a steady rise in decisions from January when the government鈥檚 controversial 鈥渞obo debt鈥 measures were introduced.
A Centrelink decision can be 鈥渟et aside鈥 because the debt was incorrectly calculated or if it would cause the Centrelink recipient serious financial hardship.
Donald Trump announced a ban on transgender people serving in the US armed forces via Twitter on July 26. The ban reverses a series of orders made by the Barack Obama administration to explore the integration of transgender service personnel into the military 鈥 and for any costs associated with gender affirmation medical technology to be covered.
The ban has re-raised questions about what attitude left-wing forces should take to questions of discrimination in the armed forces of imperialist countries. Should such discrimination be opposed and on what basis should you do so?
There have been numerous instances of human rights abuses since the Nauru detention centre was reopened in 2013 and then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that no refugee who arrived by boat would ever be given safety in Australia. The Guardian鈥檚 Nauru Files give detailed accounts of children being assaulted, women sexually abused by guards and suicide attempts laughed at.
In March last year people in the Nauru detention centre began a daily protest that lasted for 240 days.
The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) released its long-awaited national report on sexual assault and sexual harassment at Australian universities on August 1. While much of the corporate media coverage deemed the results 鈥渟hocking鈥, they are not really surprising.
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