Writing the history of prostitutionIn spring 1979, I spent a fascinating Saturday afternoon in the company of Mary Scrimgeour, the owner of several of Perth's largest and most...
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Defining hegemony
by John Harms | Jul 6, 2002
Whatever happened to the Left?Whatever happened to the Left? The fair dinkum come-the-revolution Left? The comrades who kept the beret industry going? The true believers who sat...
Women’s suffrage: 100 years on
by Tanya Plibersek, Susan Ryan | Jun 29, 2002
Women MPs must realise suffrage has not meant an end to suffering Susan Ryan After a hundred years of women's votes, has the great vision of the suffragists been realised?...
High stakes for working women
by Anne Summers | Jun 29, 2002
Too few oohing at Goward's babyThe political stoush between the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward, and the Howard government over the right of employed women to paid...
Tassie stays on top, while Queensland slips
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 15, 2002
Tasmania has been assessed as Australia's best performing State in the Evatt Foundation's annual State Government League Table, released today in The State of the States 2002...
Another UK rail disaster: not many dead
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 12, 2002
Why privatisation makes railways unsafeThe sequence of events after a rail disaster is now familiar: first, the speculation (or the hope in some quarters) that vandalism or, more...
Too Live N Deadly
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 2, 2002
Koori RadioPutting the soul back into SydneySydney is about to hear black voices and black music on the radio permanently. The city's first permanent Indigenous station will be...
Costello’s 7th budget
by Frank Stilwell, Fred Argy | May 17, 2002
The Budget & Australian egalitarianism Fred Argy Economic effectiveness of the Budget Good fiscal governance calls for long term strategic management of the nation's saving...
Death & life
by Guy Rundle | May 16, 2002
Broken-hearted threnody; the crisis in embryoBroken-hearted threnodyWe are entering a period of apparent total power for the United States. Its military dominance is all but...
On the waterfront
by Evatt Foundation | May 12, 2002
Four years after the MUA settled with Patrick, Stephen Long reports on working conditions, Stuart Macintyre recalls the dispute and Christopher Sheil reflects on our own War on...