Evatt’s international legacy
by Andrew Mack | Oct 11, 2016
'When Dr Evatt came [to the UN] he was a virtually unknown second-string delegate, with the background of a professor and Labor politician. He leaves, recognized as the most...
Contesting inequality
by Frank Stilwell | Aug 24, 2016
An alternative to Hockey’s budget agenda As followers of the Evatt Foundation website will be well aware, economic inequalities have been increasing in many countries....
Piketty v. Marx
by Russell Jacoby | Aug 24, 2016
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is as much a sociological as an intellectual phenomenon. Like Allan Bloom’s 1987 The Closing of the American Mind, it...
Battlers & billionaires
by Andrew Leigh | Aug 24, 2016
Australian egalitarianism under threatIn 2002, two bombs exploded in Bali nightclubs, killing and injuring hundreds of people. At the local hospital, there was a shortage of...
Proud to stand with her
by Bernie Sanders | Aug 1, 2016
Let me begin by thanking the hundreds of thousands of Americans who actively participated in our campaign as volunteers. Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund...
The Big Dawg still can howl
by Robert Borosage | Aug 1, 2016
In the spring of 1971, I met a girl…” Thus began Bill Clinton’s charming, personal portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and a speech that showed a master at the top of his...
The good fight
by Tanya Plibersek | Sep 2, 2014
While Joe Hockey was preparing to deliver his first budget in May, a budget that unravelled Australia’s social fabric, he listened to a song called Best day of my life by...
Obama’s oration
by Barack Obama | Aug 1, 2016
So 12 years ago tonight, I addressed this convention for the very first time. (Applause.) You met my two little girls, Malia and Sasha -- now two amazing young women...
Inclusive capitalism
by Christine Lagarde | Jun 11, 2014
Capitalism originates from the Latin “caput”, cattle heads, and refers to possessions. Capital is used in the 12th century and designates the use of funds. The term “capitalism”...
What was it like?
by Christopher Sheil | Dec 15, 2015
Tom Uren and Richard Flanagan on the Burma-Thailand railwayHistory is elusive. Often we can fix the dates of when things occurred, identify those involved, and draw on...