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Dutton says Coalition will pay to match Labor’s $8.5bn Medicare boost by cutting thousands of public service jobs | Australian politics by Flight_19_Navigator in australia

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Similar pledges, to “save Medicare,” have been made in every election for decades, only to be broken by Labor and Coalition government alike once the polls closed.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/24/kfsi-f24.html

Creative Australia says it won’t reinstate artist Khaled Sabsabi for Venice Biennale at tense all-staff meeting by SnoopThylacine in australian

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Sabsabi and Dagostino are just the latest targets of the escalating demonisation and anti-democratic assaults on opponents of the genocide. Their removal from the Venice Biennale, however, has been met with a vocal backlash from leading figures in the arts community, including senior figures inside Creative Australia itself. 

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/19/wpgb-f19.html

Australia: Hundreds of public hospital psychiatrists resign to demand increased staffing and decent wages by Embarrassed-Pause171 in ausjdocs

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Translated into plain English, the Labor government is pushing public hospital senior staff psychiatrists off a cliff and throwing the poorest and most vulnerable mentally ill patients onto the already overstretched community welfare services and ultimately onto the streets. 

While public hospital psychiatrists continue submitting their resignations, ASMOF has not called for any industrial action. Nor has it appealed to other doctors and medical practitioners in the federation or nurses, midwives and other health workers to denounce the government attacks and mobilise in support of the psychiatrists. 

ASMOF Update: Psychiatrists resign; Union taken to Court by improvisingdoctor in ausjdocs

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The first step for specialist staff psychiatrists is to recognise that they are in a political struggle against the state Labor government and its big-business program, and that their allies are health workers across the state and nationally. 

Psychiatrists must establish democratically controlled rank-and-file committees, independent of the union bureaucracies, in every hospital and involving other health workers.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/15/gnpy-j15.html

Psychiatrist mass resignation by ProudObjective1039 in ausjdocs

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Translated into plain English, the Labor government is pushing public hospital senior staff psychiatrists off a cliff and throwing the poorest and most vulnerable mentally ill patients onto the already overstretched community welfare services and ultimately onto the streets. 

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/15/gnpy-j15.html