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...
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Lord Abbott the Wrecker
by Sally McManus | May 21, 2014
This May Day, we are facing off against a militant conservative government which holds Australians and Australia in deep contempt. And we are facing off against a militant...
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...
Australia’s rich are on a roll
by Evatt Foundation | May 21, 2014
The shares of the richest 1 per cent of households in total pre-tax income have increased in most OECD countries over the past three decades. This rise is the result of the top 1...
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...
Thomas Piketty: the book of the moment
by Evatt Foundation | Apr 11, 2014
Andrew Hussey described Capital in the Twenty-First Century this way:This is a huge book, more than 700 pages long, dense with footnotes, graphs and mathematical formulae....
Qantas: a suitable case for treatment
by Frank Stilwell | Apr 8, 2014
The future of QANTAS is important for the Australian economy and society as a whole, as well as for its customers and employees. The company has been an Australian icon for many...
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...