Coming Events

Join Sam Mostyn at the Jessie Street Trust Annual Lunch. Sam Mostyn has enjoyed a diverse career across business, politics, science and the arts, the not for profit sector and sport. Sam was a senior executive at Optus Communications and Insurance Australia Group, and now serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Virgin Blue and Transurban. In 2005, Sam became the first woman appointed to the AFL Commission.

2011 E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture This year’s prestigious public lecture at the University of Sydney will be presented by Professor SHEILA DOW, the renowned post-Keynesian economist from Stirling University in Scotland. She will be coming to Australia specifically for this purpose. Her topic is: POLICY IN THE WAKE OF THE BANKING CRISIS: TAKING PLURALISM SERIOUSLY.

The Annual General Meeting will review the Evatt Foundation's activities and consider what we should pursue next year (The AGM is for members only).

With the shrill squeals of the conservative media appealing to the most reactionary instincts of Australians on one side, and the bleating of starry-eyed progressives unburdened by practicalities of implementation on the other, Labor must go to the next election and carve out a winning margin.