Company tax rorts The current budget has focused attention on cuts to public spending, but there has been little focus on government revenues.New research reveals 29 per cent of...
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Health spending shrinks
by Evatt Foundation | Oct 1, 2014
A new report has given the lie to the claim by the Abbott government that the growth in Australian health spending is so massive that it's 'unsustainable'.Spending on health in...
Economic vandalism
by Tony Evans | Oct 1, 2014
Tony Abbott is looking after its mates and leaving everyone else to look after themselves. Pensioners, the sick, and students are amongst those targeted for harsh treatment in...
Stiglitz: the price of inequality
by Evatt Foundation | Sep 2, 2014
A capacity crowd of two thousand packed Sydney Town Hall on Tuesday 8 July 2014 to hear Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz discuss the price of inequality and what...
Budget fuels financial discomfort
by Evatt Foundation | Sep 2, 2014
A lack of cash savings has emerged as one of the biggest areas of concern among Australian households, according to ME Bank’s biannual 'Household Financial Comfort' survey,...
Abbott’s mandate
by Bill Shorten | Sep 2, 2014
Before the last federal election, when he was Opposition Leader, the Prime Minister campaigned on trust, on honesty, on keeping promises. He famously said: “The government has no...
New poll: inequality
by Oxfam | Jul 1, 2014
New research by Oxfam Australia shows that the wealthiest one per cent of Australians together have more money than 60 per cent of the nation’s population, showing that the...
Total-Abbottarianism
by Nick Dyrenfurt | Jun 11, 2014
For someone who promised to lead an ‘adult’ government, Tony Abbott is giving every indication that the Lodge is presently occupied by a student politician on steroids. Whether...
It’s on – unions ready to fight for penalty rates
by ACTU | Jun 11, 2014
Australian Unions will fight a campaign by the business lobby to cut weekend penalty rates, challenging them today to ‘bring it on’. ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said public...
Groundhog day: electricity privatisation
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 11, 2014
Premier Mike Baird has announced a proposal to sell 49 per cent of the NSW electricity network, to be taken to the next state election.The announcement comes in the wake a...