WorkChoices and the reshaping of labour, class and CommonwealthIntroducing WorkChoicesIn July 2005, the Howard government secured control of both houses of parliament when the...
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AWAs rejected
by Kim Beazley | Jun 26, 2006
I stand before you today in this legendary Town Hall - proud and inspired by its history and the great traditions of our party. The two forever entwined.It is, of course, a...
The social democratic agenda
by Mark Buttigieg | Apr 26, 2006
Is it viable?The ALP needs to accept and deal with a fundamental political conundrum if it is to develop a real strategy for winning back government and keeping it. Over the past...
The case for industrial & civil liberties
by Bruce Childs | Apr 26, 2006
President's perspectiveThis Evatt Newsletter gives you the case for industrial and civil liberties presented at our recent seminar by Geoff Derrick, Secretary NSW-ACT, Branch of...
Nuclear energy & greenhouse
by Mark Diesendorf | Apr 26, 2006
Is going nuclear the answer?Since 2000 the nuclear industry has mounted a massive international media and lobbying campaign to promote nuclear energy as a solution to the...
An inextricable link
by Geoff Derrick | Apr 26, 2006
The attack on civil & industrial rightsThere is and always has been an inextricable link between workers rights and civil rights, from the days of the Tollpuddle martyrs,...
Young people, unions, strategies
by Damian Oliver | Nov 10, 2005
One obvious site to politically engage young people is in the workplace. How does the labour market for young people affect their capacity to be politically engaged? Current...
What are we doing wrong?
by Monika Wheeler | Nov 10, 2005
Firstly, I would just like to say that these are my views, and not the views of my employer or party.Why are political parties and activist organisations failing to communicate...
Privatisation, politics & PPPs
by Evatt Foundation | Nov 10, 2005
At the beginning of his famous essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell cited five passages of text as examples of mental vices. Each of the passages had faults of...
How’s this for sedition?
by Chas Savage | Nov 10, 2005
Edmund Burke, who declared the tyranny of bad laws, was a deep political thinker and a ferocious polemicist. In 1777, he wrote to the Sheriffs of Bristol that the true danger to...