by Robert L. Borosage | Aug 1, 2016 | Issue 4, Journal, News, Volume 15
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday night confidently accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party to be president of the United States. This was history.Our money-laden, poll-driven politics is a tawdry business. The Clintons are burdened by a lot of history on the...
by Bill Shorten | Sep 2, 2014 | Issue 6, Journal, News, Volume 13
Before the last federal election, when he was Opposition Leader, the Prime Minister campaigned on trust, on honesty, on keeping promises. He famously said: “The government has no mandate. There should be no tax collection without an election.” Now we have the pot...
by Oxfam | Jul 1, 2014 | Issue 5, Journal, News
New research by Oxfam Australia shows that the wealthiest one per cent of Australians together have more money than 60 per cent of the nation’s population, showing that the ‘lucky country’ is not immune to the creeping inequality that is snaking around the world and...
by Christopher Sheil | Feb 12, 2016 | Issue 1, Journal, News, President's perspective, Volume 15
With great sadness, I note the passing of two major figures in the history of the Evatt Foundation since we last met, Faith Bandler and Tom Uren. Both were Life members of the Foundation, Faith being one of the speakers at the inaugural meeting in 1979, and Tom being...
by Nick Dyrenfurt | Jun 11, 2014 | Issue 4, Journal, News, Volume 13
For someone who promised to lead an ‘adult’ government, Tony Abbott is giving every indication that the Lodge is presently occupied by a student politician on steroids. Whether it is the two Abbott-inspired royal commissions and other acts of political retribution...
by Evatt Foundation | Feb 12, 2016 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 15
From the Burma-Thai railway to nuclear disarmament: the making of Tom Uren’s collective consciousness Christopher Sheil I didn’t know Tom Uren very well. Tom was President of the Evatt Foundation from 1989 to 1997. I met him many times. I went to his house. We...
