Thank you for the opportunity to address this Evatt Foundation seminar on the Howard government's proposed industrial relations changes. I intend to discuss issues which go to...
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Welfare reform or punishing the poor?
by John Falzon | Nov 14, 2006
I wish to begin by paying respect to the traditional custodians and elders of this land on which we meet to share our stories, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. I pay...
Victoria on top, while WA & NSW slip
by Evatt Foundation | Nov 14, 2006
Victoria has been assessed as Australia's best performing state in the annual Evatt Foundation State Government League Table, released today in The State of the States...
The US election & Iraq
by Evatt Foundation | Nov 14, 2006
President's perspectiveThe United States electoral earthquake and aftershocks are loosening the grip on power of Bush, Blair and Howard. The three Anglo leaders have broken every...
New South Wales fights back
by Peter Primrose | Nov 14, 2006
The New South Wales Government has opposed the federal government's industrial relations agenda by:Rejecting formal requests by the federal government that NSW hand over its...
Focusing on the public sector
by Evatt Foundation | Nov 14, 2006
'The inherent tendency', wrote J K Galbraith in his classic work, The Affluent Society, 'will always be for public services to fall behind private production.' The State of the...
Focusing on health policy
by John Dwyer | Nov 14, 2006
Australians are only too well aware that their health care system is increasingly unreliable, indeed dysfunctional.Public hospitals have major problems because of ever-increasing...
Focusing on fiscal policy
by Fred Argy | Nov 14, 2006
For over a decade, the conventional wisdom in Australia's official circles has been that governments should avoid borrowing, and should even strive to become debt-free over the...
Australia in the early 21st century
by Richard Woolcott | Nov 14, 2006
I feel honoured to be with you today to give the prestigious University of Newcastle Human Rights and Social Justice lecture. I know I am following a number of distinguished...
Workingman’s blues
by Ron Jacobs | Sep 26, 2006
I took my Harry Choates CD off the player, even though that Cajun violin he plays had a lot to say a year after Katrina hit. The new Bob Dylan album was in my hand and it was...