It’s fiction, explains Garry Wills.
The myth about marriage
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Issue 4
The Australian economy and its people
Working Australians don’t need GDP or CPI figures to realize reverse, reports the ACTU.
Prophets & profits
The Pilbara and the remaking of Australian industrial relationsFor all its physical isolation, the Pilbara has become central to the Australian economy and imagination. Even with the heat out of the mining boom, the Pilbara remains a media staple, with an obsessive...
Nobel laureates focus on inequality
Economics is changing, reports Steve Schifferes.
Labor’s defining mission
The theme that you’ve chosen for this gathering is ‘an uncertain world’. We live in an uncertain world. We live in uncertain times—yes we do, we most certainly do. But to varying degrees, we always have. I suppose that if you were a young Australian in the...
Born to be wild
Generational clichés are the ultimate zombie idea claims John Quiggin.
Lionel Murphy: 1922-1986
An Evatt founder sums up.
The ABS is wrong
The Australian Bureau of Statistics announced last week that 'inequality has remained stable since 2013-14'. Given that economic inequality has been increasing since 1980 and the widespread view that it has reached unacceptable levels, the ABS's report...
A big blow for fairness
Today Labor is announcing new plans to improve our tax system so that it is fair for all Australians. A Shorten Labor government will introduce a standard minimum 30 per cent tax rate for discretionary trust distributions to mature beneficiaries (people over the age...