by Oxfam | Feb 12, 2016 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 15
Runaway inequality has created a world where 62 people own as much as the poorest half of the world’s population, according to an Oxfam report published today ahead of the annual gathering of the world’s financial and political elites in Davos. This number...
by ACTU | Jun 11, 2014 | Issue 4, Journal, News, Volume 13
Australian Unions will fight a campaign by the business lobby to cut weekend penalty rates, challenging them today to ‘bring it on’. ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said public opinion was on the side of workers and the Union Movement would not take a backwards step in...
by Lesley Hughes | Feb 12, 2016 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 15
As an academic, I have regularly attended conferences, both national and international over the years. The Paris climate talks (COP21) are just like a really big academic conference (~45,000 delegates, though thankfully they didn’t all come at once), mixed with a...
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 11, 2014 | Issue 4, Journal, News, Volume 13
Premier Mike Baird has announced a proposal to sell 49 per cent of the NSW electricity network, to be taken to the next state election.The announcement comes in the wake a comprehensive report by Professor John Quiggin earlier this year, Electricity privatisation in...
by Evatt Foundation | May 21, 2014 | Issue 3, Journal, News, Volume 13
Editorial Is the Abbott government turning Australia into America? Judging by the letters to the editors of the print media, many citizens would say so, but they would be wrong. Many Australians, probably the vast majority, don’t realise that capitalism’s...
by Patrick Troy | Dec 15, 2015 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 14
Tom Uren, who has died at the age of 93, was born into a working-class household. Typical of the 1920s and ’30s, he had a limited formal education and received his training in what he called the ‘university of adversity’.Uren did not...
