For decades the liberal-bourgeois Australian Labor Party (ALP) have portrayed themselves as a party fighting for workers’ rights, but nothing could be further from the truth. With every small immediate gain the Labor Party have granted to the proletariat, they have also introduced measures and reforms which have effectively cut off the legs of Australia’s trade unions.

The concept of “mutual aid” is not just some abstract idea, dreamed up by idealistic academics. It is already practiced widely in working class communities, where mates helping each other out in hard times is already part of our national culture. There is already an impulse to assist our peers and friends and we trust they will reciprocate when we need their help.

The 2019 federal election was billed as the “un-loseable election” with Newspoll predicting the ALP would form government with 77 seats. Even Sportsbet was so confident in a Labor win that they paid out early to punters. Of course, events on election night showed just how wrong pundits were.

The inability to find stable housing reduces a homeless person’s living conditions to an absolute minimum. The inhumane treatment of the most disadvantaged people of society should be something that a government concerns itself with and as the right to adequate housing, which is violated by the existence of homelessness, continues domestically and abroad.