The recent release of the report on 'The State of the World's Wealth' by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini reveals the relentless rise in riches. There are now 9.5 million people...
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Organising China’s Wal-Mart
by Chris White | Apr 9, 2007
Building the union, Chinese styleAt the high-rise Beijing headquarters of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) on 30 January 2007, I asked Ms Guo Chen from their...
Your rights: your future
by Sharan Burrow | Dec 1, 2006
Last November we said we must not be the first generation of Australians to leave our kids with fewer rights at work than we inherited. We said that we would fight these laws....
Worth voting for
by Greg Combet | Dec 1, 2006
At the outset I would like to make something very clear. It is an undeniable fact that millions of people have lost their rights at work under the new industrial relations laws....
Wanted: human rights in Australia
by John von Doussa | Dec 1, 2006
I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet today, and pay respect to their elders.An evolutionary...
Undermining our best chance
by Kevin Rudd | Dec 1, 2006
Australia's dying multilaterilismIntroductionMy thesis here is simple: first, during the last five years the Howard government has done much to undermine the preceding fifty...
The Road from Serfdom
by Greg Grandin | Dec 1, 2006
Milton Friedman (1912-2006); Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006)Milton Friedman had no idea that his six-day trip to Chile in March 1975 would generate so much controversy. He was...
The lily & the pond
by Steve Keen | Dec 1, 2006
Try this riddle. A lily in a pond is doubling in size every day. It takes 31 days to grow to cover half the pond. How many more days will it be before it covers the pond...
New leadership
by Evatt Foundation | Dec 1, 2006
President's report 2006 Our congratulations to Kevin Rudd and his Shadow Cabinet team. Kevin has shown that he has an informed understanding of Dr Evatt's role in establishing...
Canberra unlimited?
by George Williams | Dec 1, 2006
To pass the Work Choices legislation, the Howard government was forced to be creative. It did not have at its disposal a general power in the Constitution over industrial...