AIME says the answer is equal education, and has produced a gorgeous animation to promote the idea of education mentoring worldwide.AIME stands for the Australian Indigenous...
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The Guardian joins the cause
by Evatt Foundation | Jul 17, 2017
The Guardian has kicked off a new project investigating inequality of all kinds, all over the world. The paper's 'Inequality Project' is supported by the giant NewYork-based...
Penalty rate cuts will boost inequality, not employment
by Evatt Foundation | Jul 17, 2017
Australia’s Fair Work Commission has recently decided to reduce penalty rates for work on Sundays and public holidays in the retail and hospitality sectors. Rates would fall by...
New inequality research
by Christopher Sheil | Jul 17, 2017
Following are brief notes and key charts about new data on: the share of Australian incomes accruing to the top 10% and top 1% (of individual adult income earners); the size and...
Happy Birthday ACTU
by Bill Shorten | Jul 17, 2017
I acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, I pay respect to elders past and present.I’m honoured to be here tonight with so many inspirational people. When I call you...
Good, but must do better
by John Quiggin | Jul 17, 2017
‘Define your terms,’ Voltaire wrote, ‘or we shall never understand one another.’ He was talking about miracles, but much the same might be said of ‘globalisation,’ a term used by...
Fixing the Productivity Commission
by Jenny McAllister | Jul 17, 2017
Productivity Commission Amendment (Reducing Inequality) Bill 2017This bill places inequality firmly on the agenda of one of our country's most influential economic policy...
After Piketty
by Evatt Foundation | Jul 17, 2017
After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer, the book’s translator, of the reasons for Capital in the Twenty-First Century's phenomenal success, followed by the...
Income inequality across Australia
by Francis Markham, Nicholas Biddle | Jul 10, 2017
With affordable houses increasingly out of reach, wage growth slow and household debt high, Australians are certainly feeling poor. But how do they compare to their...
The art of the real
by Katherine Cross | Jun 15, 2017
The concept of ‘the Big Lie’—a brazen untruth pushed so relentlessly in mass media that it’s eventually mistaken for truth—is hardly novel. As is the case with so many other...