On guard: The MAI rides again
by Patricia Ranald | Aug 10, 2002
Trading away essential services?The World Trade Organisation negotiationsWhat if our government signed a legally binding international agreement, which prevented regulation of...
A great read, but …
by Carmen Lawrence | Jul 28, 2002
Talented artist sells his subject shortThe reviews of Don Watson's memoir of his life as Paul Keating's speechwriter, Recollections of A Bleeding Heart, have all been very...
Nasty, brutish and short-sighted
by Pierre Tristam | Jul 21, 2002
Faith-based capitalism's plunge into the market abyssFive years ago Bill Clinton announced that he was ending welfare as we knew it. Last week George W. Bush could have...
US must face harsh realities
by Will Hutton | Jul 19, 2002
Bye bye American pieThe US faces a grave economic crisis. The confidence in the balance sheets and reported profitability of American companies has been shattered by an orgy of...
PPPs are public fraud
by George Monbiot | Jun 27, 2002
Public fraud initiativePoor visibility corrupts; invisibility corrupts absolutely. The private finance initiative, which is the means by which billions of pounds worth of new...
Australia’s elusive bill of rights
by Robert McClelland | Jun 27, 2002
How is a bill of rights relevant today?When the Twin Towers in New York collapsed on September 11 last year, the world changed - and Australia changed with it. Australia has been...
Union chief at the press club
by Greg Combet | Jun 15, 2002
Contemporary union strategyPersonal backgroundThe ACTU commissioned some focus group work recently, from which I received some sobering news. After two years as ACTU Secretary I...
Refugees
by Julian Burnside | Jun 12, 2002
Australia's moral failureThe so-called refugee problem facing Australia is not a problem of national security; it is not a political or legal problem: it is overwhelmingly a...
PPPs: A policy in search of a rationale?
by Neil Vickers, Jean Shaoul, Allyson M Pollock | Jun 10, 2002
Private finance and 'value for money' in Britain's public hospitals Summary The private finance initiative (PFI) brings no new capital investment into public services and is a...
Postmodernism: conspiring with the orthodoxy
by Yanis Varoufakis | Jun 10, 2002
Why critics of economics can ill-afford the 'postmodern turn'The dissident's nightmareIt is a sad irony when the activities of dissidents help shore up the establishment they set...