To understand the sensational outcome of the British election, one must ask a basic question. What happens when phony populism collides with the real thing?Last year’s triumph...
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Economic world record?
by Saul Eslake. | Jun 6, 2017
With the release of the March quarter national accounts, there have been reports the Australian economy could break the Netherlands’ “world record” for continuous growth. But...
Tanya fires up
by Evatt Foundation | Apr 4, 2017
Renowned for her composure, Labor's deputy leader, Tanya Plibersek, let fly in the House of Representatives on Thursday 30 March. Plibersek was talking about Margarita, a cleaner...
Northern Ireland’s Brexit warning
by John Palmer | Apr 4, 2017
The British prime minister, Theresa May, does not take time off from her responsibilities in London to travel to Scotland—even to address the conference of the Scottish...
The low-paid work problem
by John Buchanan | Apr 4, 2017
Employer organisations such as the Australian Retailers Association, supported by the federal government, have recently argued that wages for Australia’s lowest-paid workers...
Employers’ pyrrhic penalty rates win
by Jim Stanford | Apr 4, 2017
The Fair Work Commission unveiled its long-awaited decision on penalty rates for Sunday and holiday work this week. Penalty rates for most retail and hospitality workers will be...
Democratising the Euro zone
by Thomas Piketty | Apr 4, 2017
The Euro zone needs a proper government : a joint budget, common rules of taxation, an investment and borrowing capacity, a growth strategy and a model for sustainable and...
Capital in the 21st Century, the movie
by Evatt Foundation | Apr 4, 2017
The international bestseller (over 3 million copies sold worldwide) Capital in the 21st Century written by Thomas Piketty, (Editions du Seuil) will be given a big screen...
A transition to nowhere
by Jim Stanford | Apr 4, 2017
Government and business leaders have poposed a range of possible 'transition' mechanisms to ease the economic hardship, and defuse political anger, following the Fair Work...
The Age of offence
by Evatt Foundation | Apr 1, 2017
The politics of outrage, and the crisis of free speech on campus Ira Wells Among those invested in the notion that higher education is currently collapsing before our eyes, fewer...