I would like to comment on two issues of significance to Australia's working-class: the future of the Australian trade union movement and the future of the Australian Labor...
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Medicare – where to now?
by Maurie Mifsud | Feb 1, 2005
Health (Medicare) remains the utmost priority of the Combined Pensioners and Superannuant's Association of NSW (CPSA).There exists a strong opinion abroad that the Federal...
Isolating workers
by Sharan Burrow | Feb 1, 2005
The ACTU has warned that many Australian employees could find it practically impossible to exercise their basic right to access information and assistance from a union, if the...
Australia’s Kyoto paradox
by John Merson | Feb 1, 2005
It is ironic that Australia, for reasons of short-term economic interests, has refused to ratify the Kyoto protocols of the UN Convention on Climate Change. Australia, per head...
A mixed story
by Juan Cole | Feb 1, 2005
I'm just appalled by the cheerleading tone of US news coverage of the so-called elections in Iraq on Sunday. I said on television last week that this event is a "political...
Progressive punishment?
by Mark Findlay | Oct 24, 2004
In the early days of his third term as Premier of NSW, Bob Carr challenged his government to move away from current law and order politics and come up with a more progressive...
The FTA & the PBS
by David Henry, Martyn Goddard, Thomas Faunce, Peter Drahos | Jun 17, 2004
Executive summaryHigher drug pricesIn a number of statements, government ministers have claimed that the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement will not have the effect of increasing...
John Howard’s short-termism
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 17, 2004
President's perspectiveWhen the history is written of this period of the Australian experience, I believe it will be seen as the climax of John Howard's opportunistic...
Embracing multilateralism
by Brendan Lim | Jun 17, 2004
A commitmentIn an interconnected global community, Australia cannot afford to be cutting her connections. Can we be selective in when and how we choose to embrace...
World democracy is on a roll … or is it?
by Daniel Baldino. | Jan 25, 2004
The flowering of fig-leaf democracyIn terms of neo-liberal ideology, the end of the Cold War produced a flurry of expectations for a more peaceful and prosperous world order. The...