President's perspectiveThe ACTU Congress next month will decide the trade union movement's strategy leading up to Australia's next state and federal elections and beyond. This...
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There is a better, fairer way
by Greg Combet | Sep 26, 2006
Remedying Australia's industrial relationsI would like to thank the press club for using a photograph of me that is about seven or eight years old in the promotional material. I...
Room for a view?
by Antony Loewenstein | Sep 26, 2006
Truly free societies are defined by the limitations placed on free speech. What is permissible or illegal often determines the way we view subversive, extreme or outrageous...
Nuclear proliferation
by Richard Broinowski | Sep 26, 2006
Prime Minister Howard's call for a 'full-blooded' debate about nuclear power has unleashed a flood of dangerously deceptive propaganda about the capacity of Australian uranium to...
From Earle Page to turning the page
by Julia Gillard | Sep 26, 2006
Earle Page's lifeEarle Christmas Grafton Page was Minister for Health, from 1949 to 1956, in the government of Robert Menzies. He is remembered for this rather than for his 20...
Fear & politics
by Carmen Lawrence | Sep 26, 2006
The opposition of fear and democracy is one of 'the great commonplaces of modern political thought.' Indeed, one of the strongest motives for adopting democracy is people's...
Exclusive Brethren excludes unions
by Trevor Cormack | Sep 26, 2006
The Exclusive Brethren is a secretive Christian organisation that attracts a great deal of controversy over its involvement in politics. Although its members are forbidden from...
The campaign takes off
by Bruce Childs | Jun 26, 2006
President's perspectiveThe Evatt Foundation continues the debate on the challenge to our civil and industrial liberties. I was fortified by developments at the NSW ALP Conference...
International support needed
by Sharan Burrow | Jun 26, 2006
Workchoices & international standardsMr PresidentThe Australian government is now a serial offender of the very principles that sit at the heart of decent work - core ILO...
Brave new world
by Braham Dabscheck | Jun 26, 2006
Since the latter part of the 1980s, The Contract Regulation Club has been the dominant force in Australian industrial relations.It has brought about fundamental changes to...