Return of the money power
by Kosmas Tsokhas | Nov 2, 2018
Finance now dominates everyday life in AustraliaIn an era when households have been incorporated into financial markets, it is said that they have the opportunity to acquire...
Dental care: the problem and the solution
by John Menadue | Nov 2, 2018
In 1974, the Whitlam government decided to exclude dental care from Medicare for two reasons. The first was cost. The second was political in that Gough Whitlam felt that...
The inequality crisis, industry bargaining and the future of the union movement
by Jo Schofield | Jun 30, 2018
Look around this room and imagine it represents Australia. Ask yourself: Why is it that one in four people here – in this room – are being paid the barest legal minimum? In many...
Gough Whitlam and the party of the fair go
by Anthony Albanese | Jun 22, 2018
In his first speech to Parliament, my late friend and mentor Tom Uren spoke about his experiences as a former prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. He recounted his...
The make-believe land of Turnbull, Morrison & co.
by Frank Stilwell | Jun 20, 2018
Frank Stilwell cuts the Budget.
OECD meets Piketty
by Ronald Janssen | May 20, 2018
An alternative economic narrative A picture can say more than a thousand words. This is certainly true for the set of graphs (see below) that the OECD published in its latest...
Mary Alice Evatt: Art for the People
by David Stratton | May 18, 2018
I was extremely honoured to be invited to speak at the opening of this magnificent exhibition of the works and the collection of Mary Alice Evatt, or Mas as she was often known...
What the fair go means
by Bill Shorten | May 10, 2018
The Opposition Leader's speech in reply to the 2018 Budget My fellow Australians, as I listened to the government's fifth budget on Tuesday night, I knew immediately we can do...
Where have we come from and where to next?
by Wayne Swan | May 4, 2018
I’m going to start by breaking a rule of progressive politics devised for us by George Lakoff a decade and more ago, when he said 'Don’t think of an elephant'. You might...
The compassionate city
by Jenny Donovan | May 4, 2018
‘We shape our cities, and afterwards our cities shape us', to paraphrase Winston Churchill. In this he eloquently drew a line between the built characteristics of our...