by Jim Stanford | May 4, 2018 | Papers
Donald Trump’s bellicose policies, including new tariffs on steel and aluminium, have raised fears of a worldwide slide into protectionism and trade conflict. The US president’s unilateral and xenophobic approach to trade policy is reprehensible and dangerous from any...
by Jim Stanford | May 4, 2018 | Papers
Donald Trump’s bellicose policies, including new tariffs on steel and aluminium, have raised fears of a worldwide slide into protectionism and trade conflict. The US president’s unilateral and xenophobic approach to trade policy is reprehensible and dangerous...
by Sally McManus | Mar 21, 2018 | Papers
For more secure jobs and fair pay Australian workers are ruled by laws which have destroyed job security and left us struggling to pay the bills. Once the promise of living in Australia was that each generation would pass on something better to the next. Better...
by Tim Dunlop | Dec 22, 2017 | Papers
‘Challenging but possible.’ If you want to understand how transformative a universal basic income, or UBI, might be, it’s hard to beat the story told by Guy Standing during the lecture he gave in Melbourne in 2015. He was talking about a UBI trial he had...
by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | Dec 22, 2017 | Papers
A trove of 13.4 million records exposes ties between Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary, the secret dealings of the chief fundraiser for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the offshore interests of the queen of England, and...
by Lucy Taksa | Dec 22, 2017 | Papers
Lessons from the greatest industrial upheaval in Australian history One hundred years ago, Australia experienced what became known as the NSW General Strike or ‘Great Strike’ of 1917. Officially the strike began on 2 August, when 5,780 of the workers employed at the...