What Israel has done
by Edward Said | Jun 4, 2002
Despite Israel's effort to restrict coverage of its destructive invasion of the West Bank's Palestinian towns and refugee camps, information and images have nevertheless seeped...
The maintenance of institutional values
by Jim Spigelman | May 28, 2002
Research library futuresThe contribution that is made by the administration of justice to the social and economic welfare of Australia is in large measure based on institutional...
Workers, women & superannuation
by Diana Olsberg, Greg Combet | May 15, 2002
Reaffirming the role of unionsGreg CombetIntroductionBill Kelty's passion for superannuation, and the efforts he and others made towards achieving the system we have today,...
War on terror
by Duncan Kerr. | May 13, 2002
Wise precautions or impunity for abuses?IntroductionAlthough there has been much concerned discussion in Australia about the events of September 11 and their aftermath,...
ANZAC Day
by Tom Uren | Apr 23, 2002
Our mission for this new milleniumIt was 87 years ago this Anzac Day that our gallant forces landed on Gallipoli. Although our Federation of States was created by becoming the...
Nationalism & globalisation
by Gavin Kitching | Apr 19, 2002
When speaking about my book Seeking Social Justice Through Globalisation (Penn State Press, 2001), I always feel the need to begin by saying that it is not a book about Australia...
What’s happening in the suburbs?
by Evatt Foundation | Apr 18, 2002
Federal responsibilities for cities Mark Latham In the Australian newspaper last month, Christopher Lloyd, a Professor of Economic History at the University of New England,...
No more islands
by Michael Kirby | Apr 18, 2002
Human rights & industrial relations Early days There are three reasons why, despite my natural reticence, I agreed to give this lecture, the tenth in the series to honour the...
‘Funny you should ask for that’
by Stuart Macintyre | Apr 18, 2002
Higher education as a market Patterns of loss In the early 1970s I went to the United Kingdom to pursue postgraduate studies. My time at Cambridge was happier than that of...
The storming of the accountants
by David Boyle | Apr 17, 2002
"It may work fine in practice," goes a joke that the French make at their own expense. "The trouble is, it just doesn't work in theory." So it is strange that Paris has become...