From the Burma-Thai railway to nuclear disarmament: the making of Tom Uren’s collective consciousness Christopher Sheil I didn’t know Tom Uren very well. Tom was President...
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Inequality: beyond all bounds
by Oxfam | Feb 12, 2016
Runaway inequality has created a world where 62 people own as much as the poorest half of the world's population, according to an Oxfam report published today ahead of the annual...
From the Paris climate talks
by Lesley Hughes | Feb 12, 2016
As an academic, I have regularly attended conferences, both national and international over the years. The Paris climate talks (COP21) are just like a really big academic...
Tom Uren: 1921-2015
by Patrick Troy | Dec 15, 2015
Tom Uren, who has died at the age of 93, was born into a working-class household. Typical of the 1920s and '30s, he had a limited formal education and received his...
Hugh Stretton 1924–2015
by Geoff Harcourt | Dec 15, 2015
Hugh died last Saturday at the age of 91 after a long illness. I had known him since 1958 when I first came to Adelaide where he was the much-admired Professor of History. In...
Faith Bandler, 1918-2015
by Marilyn Lake | Dec 15, 2015
A leading campaigner for Aboriginal rights from the 1950s through the 1980s, Faith Bandler was the daughter of Pacific Islander, Peter Mussing, brought to Queensland from the...
Doing Abbott’s bidding
by ACTU | Dec 15, 2015
As expected, the Productivity Commission has produced a report designed to advance the Abbott government's agenda to cut the wages and conditions of Australian workers.Unions...
The psychology of inequality
by Evatt Foundation | Oct 1, 2014
The Australian Psychological Society (APS) has expressed concern about how the recent Federal Budget measures contribute to growing inequality.In its submission to the...
Iraq III: a matter of trust
by Evatt Foundation | Oct 1, 2014
Editorial When we hear a conservative politician of Tony Abbott’s partisan ilk seeking to legitimise his direction by appropriating Ben Chifley’s image of ‘the light on the...
‘International competitiveness’
by Ken Henry | Oct 1, 2014
Narratives matter.Policy reform proposals are unlikely to be implemented, and even less likely to prove resilient, unless accompanied by a compelling narrative. But compelling...