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• Category: In Conversation
  • In conversation with Stephen Lawrence
  • In conversation with Richard Holden
  • In conversation with Andrew Leigh
  • In conversation with Elly Howse
  • In conversation with Eamon Waterford
• Category: News
  • Three million workers get a rise
  • Budgeting for a fairer future
  • It’s the working class, stupid.
  • Should big A.I. be publicly owned?
  • The 2026 world inequality report
  • Facing the challenge
  • Gina, patrimonial capitalism & tax
  • Reading the country
  • Statement on Bondi Beach attack
  • The 75th anniversary of the UDHR
  • Statement on the passing of Bruce Childs
  • Between the devil & the deep blue sea
  • About the art project
  • Conflict or co-operation?
  • Inequality in Australia
  • Does COVID-19 spell the death of the city?
  • Time for a green new deal?
  • What a joke!
  • Keating on China
  • The rebirth of history
  • 11,000 scientists warn
  • Bus privatisation a disaster
  • Towards a circular economy
  • How to be a successful leader
  • President’s report 2019
  • The White House knows it’s losing
  • ‘Louts, thugs, bullies.’
  • Bruce Childs & Gramsci?
  • Trump & Morrison
  • Welcome to ‘Stupid Watergate’
  • Hitting harder and sooner
  • Meanwhile, at the top end of town
  • Australia’s second convict age
  • Capital & Ideology
  • One last chance to save the Great Barrier Reef
  • The rich can’t get richer forever, can they?
  • If the G7 were serious …
  • Killing music
  • Echoes of Iraq
  • Arguing the world
  • Four in five injured or ill due to work
  • Iran: the risks are many
  • Vale Bob Hawke: 1929 – 2019
  • CEO pay skyrockets
  • Aspiration & inequality
  • Is Australia a wealthy country?
  • The make-believe land of Turnbull, Morrison & co.
  • Australia’s rich to get richer
  • Classes & politics
  • It’s time for a Human Rights Act
  • Keating & his caucus
  • Inequality round-up
  • Why not protect all our rights?
  • What use the Nobel?
  • The cutting edge of inequality
  • Amazon’s IR
  • A historic tax heist
  • President’s Report 2017
  • The myth about marriage
  • The Australian economy and its people
  • Nobel laureates focus on inequality
  • Born to be wild
  • Lionel Murphy: 1922-1986
  • The ABS is wrong
  • A big blow for fairness
  • Want to change the world?
  • The PRRT & the ineptitude test
  • The Guardian joins the cause
  • Penalty rate cuts will boost inequality, not employment
  • New inequality research
  • Happy Birthday ACTU
  • Good, but must do better
  • Fixing the Productivity Commission
  • An honest history book?
  • After Piketty
  • Income inequality across Australia
  • Who owns the world?
  • The art of the real
  • The end of a fantasy
  • Economic world record?
  • Tanya fires up
  • We stand up. We fight back.
  • We may be at an inflection point
  • Northern Ireland’s Brexit warning
  • The low-paid work problem
  • Employers’ pyrrhic penalty rates win
  • Democratising the Euro zone
  • Capital in the 21st Century, the movie
  • A transition to nowhere
  • The Age of offence
  • Renationalise the grid
  • When truth becomes a commodity
  • University challenges inequality
  • Trump and the future of progressive politics
  • The IMF and a new global politics of inequality
  • Out of the darkness
  • Nuclear weapons in a time of universal deceit
  • Inequality just got worse
  • IMF: ‘we are walking-the-talk’
  • An economy for the 99%
  • China vs. the United States
  • Anthony B. Atkinson: 1944-2017
  • The tracks of inequality
  • Trade after Trump
  • Three landmark 2016 reports
  • President’s Report 2016
  • New life members
  • Survival in the Trump age
  • Virtuous rent: a rudder that can transform our economy
  • The promise of change
  • The lessons of Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania
  • Naomi Klein’s Sydney lecture
  • Globalisation, post-Trump
  • Counting the cost of inequality
  • Breeding greater inequality
  • An inheritance tax on the Top 5%
  • An Australian inheritance tax?
  • The case for openness
  • Evatt’s international legacy
  • A lot we can learn
  • Contesting inequality
  • Piketty v. Marx
  • Piketty’s political economy
  • Has capitalism run its course?
  • Battlers & billionaires
  • Proud to stand with her
  • The Chilcot Report & Howard’s obfuscation
  • The Big Dawg still can howl
  • Targetting health inequality
  • Obama’s oration
  • America’s choice
  • Jobs and growth: Turnbull’s mirage
  • President’s Report 2015
  • Peace, anti-nukes & Tom Uren
  • Inequality: beyond all bounds
  • From the Paris climate talks
  • Winning government by reducing inequality
  • What was it like?
  • Tom Uren: 1921-2015
  • Not just polar bears: climate change as a social justice issue
  • Hugh Stretton 1924–2015
  • Faith Bandler, 1918-2015
  • Doing Abbott’s bidding
  • The psychology of inequality
  • The life & work of Russel Ward
  • The legend lives
  • Iraq III: a matter of trust
  • ‘International competitiveness’
  • Inequality: latest research
  • Health spending shrinks
  • Economic vandalism
  • Redressing inequality — 125 years ago
  • The good fight
  • Stiglitz: the price of inequality
  • Budget fuels financial discomfort
  • Abbott’s mandate
  • New poll: inequality
  • Total-Abbottarianism
  • Shocked & angry
  • It’s on – unions ready to fight for penalty rates
  • Inclusive capitalism
  • Groundhog day: electricity privatisation
  • The United States of Australia?
  • Lord Abbott the Wrecker
  • Capital in the 21st Century: Review article
  • Australia’s rich are on a roll
  • Two freedoms
  • A remarkable woman; a feminist
  • Australia’s foreign policy today
  • Thomas Piketty: the book of the moment
  • Qantas: a suitable case for treatment
  • The challenge for Labor
  • Between stimulus & austerity
  • Injustice within the law
  • The economy in transition
  • Strategies for optimism
  • Transcending our limitations
  • Beginning in fear to end in failure
  • Women & the UN
  • Very serious people
  • Tackling tax havens
  • A real Sydney Alliance
  • Understanding government debt
  • What would Evatt do?
  • Reviving the strike
  • Nuclear power & public health
  • Nuclear power just doesn’t make sense for Australia
  • Fukushima & beyond
  • The disappearance of art
  • ‘Old Age Without Wretchedness’
  • It’s baaaaaaaack!
  • Vale Jim Hagan
  • The failure to learn
  • President’s Report 2009
  • Many complex and interlocking issues
  • The great history of democracy
  • The distribution of wealth in Australia
  • Not time for champagne yet
  • Australia’s silent killer
  • The life & death of democracy
  • The economic crisis & the Asia Pacific
  • Taking responsibility for human rights
  • Last chance for Australia’s health
  • A Charter of Rights for Australia
  • The way forward
  • The future of Africa
  • Making it accessible
  • Kill Khalid
  • Democracy failure
  • The financial & economic crisis
  • Lockout & Bastard Boys
  • Economists speak out against carbon scheme
  • Democracy’s pre-conditions
  • The Doc, the UN & the UDHR
  • The crisis of US hegemony
  • Celebrating what it is to be human and free
  • Banks must be kept in check
  • Fighting inflation with interest rates
  • A second Enlightenment?
  • The Building & Construction Commission
  • H. V. Evatt & the UN after 60 years
  • Jessie Street & human rights
  • A landscape of revolutions
  • Economic inequality in Australia
  • APEC: Australia’s biggest seat at its biggest table
  • Human rights and reconciliation
  • A heartland of instability
  • Wanted: best practice federalism
  • Organising China’s Wal-Mart
  • Hayek & Rawls
  • Hayek & market fundamentalism
  • Federalism, in the long run
  • China’s new labour law
  • Beyond right and left
  • Your rights: your future
  • Worth voting for
  • Wanted: human rights in Australia
  • Undermining our best chance
  • The Road from Serfdom
  • The lily & the pond
  • New leadership
  • Canberra unlimited?
  • The fight of our lives
  • Welfare reform or punishing the poor?
  • Victoria on top, while WA & NSW slip
  • The US election & Iraq
  • New South Wales fights back
  • Focusing on the public sector
  • Focusing on health policy
  • Focusing on fiscal policy
  • Australia in the early 21st century
  • Workingman’s blues
  • We are winning the debate over industrial liberties
  • There is a better, fairer way
  • Room for a view?
  • Nuclear proliferation
  • John Kenneth Galbraith: 1908-2006
  • The horizon of a programmed reality
  • From Earle Page to turning the page
  • Fear & politics
  • Exclusive Brethren excludes unions
  • The campaign takes off
  • International support needed
  • Brave new world
  • Beyond industrial relations
  • AWAs rejected
  • Democracy: past, present & future
  • The social democratic agenda
  • The case for industrial & civil liberties
  • Nuclear energy & greenhouse
  • Is history fiction?
  • An inextricable link
  • Young people, unions, strategies
  • What are we doing wrong?
  • Privatisation, politics & PPPs
  • Is Generation Y apolitical & apathetic?
  • How’s this for sedition?
  • Howard makes the ‘blue’ unlawful
  • How different are young men & women?
  • From Deakin to Howard
  • Economic challenges & WorkChoices
  • Women and the IR changes
  • US-Iran nuclear row
  • So much for all that
  • Making might equal right
  • John Howard’s roll-back
  • Iranian resistance
  • Iranian political reform
  • Inside the tent
  • Industrial relations
  • In the era of perpetual war
  • A tale of two industries
  • The right to politically strike?
  • The heat is on
  • Rhetoric and reality in the New Tasmania
  • Labor & the future
  • Industrial warfare
  • How to kill a country
  • Farewell Hitch
  • Curtailing worker rights
  • A fair day’s pay: goodbye to all that
  • Where have all the women gone?
  • Why consultants lie
  • Threats, challenges & change
  • The coming conflicts
  • Priority issues
  • Peace building in West Papua
  • One hundred years of arbitration
  • Medicare – where to now?
  • Isolating workers
  • In defence of Dr Herbert Vere Evatt
  • Broadband v. narrowband economics
  • Australia’s Kyoto paradox
  • A mixed story
  • Progressive punishment?
  • The FTA & the PBS
  • Ten devils in the detail
  • Poverty & national security
  • Labor & the world
  • John Howard’s short-termism
  • Embracing multilateralism
  • Declining trade union membership
  • Australian television content
  • A Trojan horse?
  • A completely misleading description
  • World democracy is on a roll … or is it?
  • The truth about WMD in Iraq
  • The myths of PPPs
  • Recognising Mary Alice Evatt
  • Propaganda, performance & privatisation
  • Paying for private profit
  • Howard ignores the children
  • Michael Moore’s big ask
  • Bushwacked
  • ‘White Slaves’ & White Australia
  • Trade & labour: not so fast
  • The history wars
  • The hard road to fascism
  • The American era is ending
  • The ALP in an international perspective
  • Refugees: is the tide turning?
  • Howard lines up the big one
  • How to stop America
  • America and the week that was
  • Why bother about economic inequality?
  • Ned Ludd, Adam Smith & Fred Argy
  • Achieving equality of opportunity
  • Fighting for our values
  • Whitewash
  • ‘Many deeds of terror’
  • Criminals & pimps
  • Understanding religious fundamentalism
  • The work/life collision
  • The ABC fades to black
  • Speaking to the Heart
  • Speaking of media bias
  • New Labour & Thatcherism
  • Monitorial cyber-citizens?
  • Future of work: work and family
  • Fighting for Australian social democracy
  • Collisions: prospective, present & past
  • Let’s get to it!
  • What chance a fair and decent country?
  • Wanted: social healing
  • Wanted: accountability & equality
  • PPPs are rotting to the core
  • One last time along the Hungry Mile
  • On ‘fabricating’ history
  • If you build it they will come
  • Eating yourself
  • Budget … and fudge it
  • Behind the neo-con curtain
  • An international decent work strategy
  • Against despairing detachment
  • Working in America
  • What’s next?
  • Trading our quality of life away
  • Towards the precipice
  • The troops are workers too
  • The Iraq war
  • Shock! The US appeals to the UN
  • Out of the rubble
  • Maternity leave & equal opportunity overboard
  • Manhattan to Baghdad
  • Intellectuals, democracy and empire
  • Inserting a new dialectic
  • Focusing on the Neo-cons
  • Australia: an unhappy country
  • Another UK PPP deal falls in a heap
  • The Blair government: two views from Britain
  • The first casualty
  • The people don’t know and can’t know
  • Meanwhile, a beautiful gift to the earth
  • Musicians mobilise
  • Going beyond protest
  • 20th anniversary of the Hawke government
  • The first casualty
  • A question of media coverage
  • The first casualty is well and truly upon us
  • Shock: World Bank backs trade unions!
  • A mediocrity of lies
  • The water barons
  • Pro-war case turns into farce
  • Dossier? What dossier?
  • Powell fails
  • Mandela on Iraq
  • Sydney’s heterodox economists
  • PPPs: a novel form of re-distribution
  • Opposition parties unanimous on Iraq troops
  • Looking to Europe
  • Howard’s reshaping of Australia
  • Evatt looks forward
  • And death machines were rumblin’ …
  • Zero public debt & democracy in the global era
  • The academic community says no to war
  • Too many wars: the history of ‘paradise’
  • PPPs & neo-protectionism in the UK
  • The axis of good
  • Of course they knew
  • Who’s afraid of public debt?
  • A message from Bali
  • Uncle oSAMa says
  • Just a distraction
  • Interesting times
  • How to cure war fever
  • War with Iraq?
  • It’s done
  • Exhibition: Mary Alice Evatt ‘Mas’ 1898-1973
  • Union slams ALP super policy
  • Telstra
  • Privatisation can be a death sentence
  • News of the world: PPPs are a disaster
  • Liberals smashed
  • Nasty, brutish and short-sighted
  • Who are the idiots now?
  • Leaders wanted!
  • Selling sex
  • Defining hegemony
  • Women’s suffrage: 100 years on
  • High stakes for working women
  • PPPs are public fraud
  • Australia’s elusive bill of rights
  • Union chief at the press club
  • Tassie stays on top, while Queensland slips
  • Refugees
  • Another UK rail disaster: not many dead
  • PPPs: A policy in search of a rationale?
  • Postmodernism: conspiring with the orthodoxy
  • What Israel has done
  • Too Live N Deadly
  • The maintenance of institutional values
  • Costello’s 7th budget
  • Death & life
  • Workers, women & superannuation
  • War on terror
  • On the waterfront
  • Beazley’s small ball
  • ANZAC Day
  • The socialist objective: should it go?
  • Vale James Tobin
  • Nationalism & globalisation
  • What’s happening in the suburbs?
  • No more islands
  • ‘Funny you should ask for that’
  • The storming of the accountants
  • Sydney’s Palm Sunday march
  • The NSW ALP’s five biggest challenges
  • Tom Uren says let’s invest in our future
  • A time for reflection
  • Tabloid TV meets the ghost of Ern Malley
  • Salting the earth
  • My better nature
  • Financing international development
  • Debauching Ministerial responsibility
  • Another shocking thing about September 11
  • “Temper democratic: Bias Australian”
  • Relaxed & dumbing down
  • Patrick Troy looks into water’s future
  • Managing the new social risks
  • 2001: Annus Horribilis
  • President’s report 2001
• Category: Papers
  • Intergenerational housing inequity
  • When the world changes, economic policy must too
  • A new national cultural policy
  • Values & identity in foreign policy
  • The ‘Art of Australia 1788-1941’ exhibition
  • COVID & the contemporary struggle for freedoms
  • Soft power, public diplomacy & post-AUKUS Indo-Pacific security
  • A national strategy of resilience
  • Building a strong ADF for the 2020s
  • Foreign policy is more than defence
  • Gender and preventing violent extremism
  • Labor’s alliance challenge
  • It’s time to get serious about eliminating nukes
  • AUKUS – A strategic and diplomatic debacle
  • Foreign policy and global warming
  • Containment, hedging and wedging
  • Climate action
  • In conversation with Stephen Lawrence
  • In conversation with Richard Holden
  • In conversation with Andrew Leigh
  • In conversation with Elly Howse
  • In conversation with Eamon Waterford
  • ‘Creative imagination’ or ‘quiet Australians’?
  • Upholding human rights, multilateralism & global solidarity
  • An opportunity for progressive law reform
  • Coronavirus and parliamentary democracy
  • Time for a green new deal?
  • Carving with the grain
  • Thinking clearly about ‘debt and deficits’
  • Australia’s jobs and insecure work crisis
  • Expelling the moneylenders after lockdown
  • A critical role for the Evatt Foundation
  • Bruce Childs & 40 years of the Evatt Foundation
  • The continuing redistribution of Australia’s wealth, upwards
  • From good international citizen to pariah?
  • Remembering the UDHR
  • The polls & the 2019 election
  • Iran: a symptom of a dangerous disease
  • Why you’re feeling no better off than 10 years ago
  • Wealth inequality in Australia: 2012 to the present
  • The political economy of inequality
  • Inequality cripples economy
  • The fading fair go
  • Start in the labour market
  • Labour’s falling income share and growing inequality
  • Inequality stocktake … or snowjob?
  • We are ready for this challenge
  • Systematically corrupt capitalism
  • Return of the money power
  • Dental care: the problem and the solution
  • The inequality crisis, industry bargaining and the future of the union movement
  • Gough Whitlam and the party of the fair go
  • OECD meets Piketty
  • Mary Alice Evatt: Art for the People
  • What the fair go means
  • Where have we come from and where to next?
  • The compassionate city
  • Lionel Murphy, ASIO & Croatian fascism
  • How to deal with the past?
  • Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right
  • Is Trump right about ‘free trade’?
  • Is Trump right about ‘free trade’?
  • Change the rules
  • Universal basic income?
  • The paradise papers & the top 1%
  • The 1917 General Strike
  • Prophets & profits
  • Labor’s defining mission
  • Whither the ‘social’ in society?
  • Is Australian history still possible?
  • Liberty, fraternity and … what was that other word?
  • Saving America
  • Rolling out the canvas
  • Carers of Australia unite!
  • A tribute to Jim Cairns
  • A permanent casualty
  • Vale Christopher Hill
  • Thank you very much and good luck
  • The trans-Atlantic aftershock of September 11
  • A metaphysical lottery
  • Power politics
  • The ‘fabrication’ of Aboriginal history
  • Trade union organising & labour history
  • There’s always a progressive alternative
  • The state of political economy
  • The father of the NSW House says goodbye
  • The coming war with Iraq
  • Somebody else’s civil war
  • Ireland loses the plot
  • Dylan’s thunder
  • Divisions over public debt
  • States of mind: Australia & New Zealand
  • Is zero government debt desirable?
  • Politics & the English language
  • The enduring significance of John Rawls
  • Different dimensions of debt
  • Commonwealth Debt Management Review
  • What women want
  • The trouble with PPPs
  • PPPs in South Australia
  • It never has been easy
  • Iraq & the war on terrorism
  • A history lesson on Iraq
  • East is east and west is best
  • Public debt: some basics
  • George Bush channels George Orwell
  • Bond traders take on Costello
  • The public good & public services
  • The ALP & cultural democracy
  • Union chief meets the press
  • Between despondency & hope
  • Riders on the Storm
  • Reckoning the damage
  • What role for Telstra?
  • Why manufacturing matters
  • ‘Mas’: a memoir
  • ‘A fresh point of view’
  • Ethics, politics & mutual obligation
  • A certain fusion
  • On guard: The MAI rides again
  • A great read, but …
  • US must face harsh realities
  • The shrinking society
  • The boundaryless cluster
  • What do we expect of government?
  • Globalisation & democracy
• Category: President's Report
  • President’s Report 2017
  • President’s Report 2016
  • President’s Report 2015
  • President’s Report 2009
  • New leadership
  • We are winning the debate over industrial liberties
  • The campaign takes off
  • The case for industrial & civil liberties
  • Industrial warfare
  • The coming conflicts
  • Propaganda, performance & privatisation
  • America and the week that was
  • Collisions: prospective, present & past
  • Wanted: accountability & equality
  • What’s next?
  • The first casualty
  • Looking to Europe
  • Evatt looks forward
  • Zero public debt & democracy in the global era
• Category: Publications
  • Moving in the open daylight
  • The first casualty
  • Tackling inequality
  • Q&A on productivity
  • Eleanor & Mary Alice
  • The Tolpuddle Martyrs
  • The wealth of the nation
  • 40 years 1979-2019
  • Doc Evatt
• Category: Uncategorised
  • blahblah
  • How are regional countries responding and adapting to an increasingly transactionalist and protectionist US’ led drive
  • Eleanor & Mary Alice
• Category: Volume 13
  • Another article in Vol 13 Issue 2
  • New journal article in Vol 13 Issue 2…
  • A new journal article
  • Liberty, fraternity and … what was that other word?
  • Category: Issue 1
    • A new journal article
    • Liberty, fraternity and … what was that other word?
  • Category: Issue 2
    • Another article in Vol 13 Issue 2
    • New journal article in Vol 13 Issue 2…
• Category: Volume 22
  • Test issue item two
  • Test issue item one
  • Category: Issue 1
    • Test issue item one
  • Category: Issue 2
    • Test issue item two