by ACTU | Sep 27, 2017 | Issue 4, Journal, News, Volume 16
An important part of reducing inequality and rising living standards is being aware of the global economic circumstances and understanding what potential shocks could be on the horizon. The world we currently live in is vastly different to that which prevailed...
by Steve Schifferes | Sep 27, 2017 | Issue 4, Journal, News, Volume 16
Every three years, all Nobel Memorial Prize winners in economics are invited to gather in the tranquil setting of the German island of Lindau to meet a selection of bright young economists and discuss the state of their profession. But this year such tranquility was...
by John Quiggin | Sep 27, 2017 | Issue 4, Journal, News
‘Every generation thinks it invented sex, and every generation is wrong.’ As that quotation from the American writer Robert Heinlein suggests, we all experience as unique and revelatory the transformations we undergo through the course of our lives,...
by Manning Clark | Sep 23, 2017 | Issue 4, Journal, News, Volume 16
Lionel Murphy is one of the few judges of the High Court of Australia who has left his mark on the history of the country. He has argued with immense learning and great passion for trial by jury, the rights of the Aborigines, the liberties of the individual against...
by Christopher Sheil, Frank Stillwell | Sep 18, 2017 | Issue 4, Journal, News, Volume 16
The Australian Bureau of Statistics announced last week that ‘inequality has remained stable since 2013-14’. Given that economic inequality has been increasing since 1980 and the widespread view that it has reached unacceptable levels, the...
by Evatt Foundation | Jul 17, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, News, Volume 16
AIME says the answer is equal education, and has produced a gorgeous animation to promote the idea of education mentoring worldwide.AIME stands for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, a charity that runs a mentorship program designed to give Aboriginal and...
