by Chris White | Apr 9, 2007 | Issue 1, News, Volume 7
Building the union, Chinese styleAt the high-rise Beijing headquarters of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) on 30 January 2007, I asked Ms Guo Chen from their Grass-Roots Organization and Capacity Building Department to go through their steps of...
by Sharan Burrow | Dec 1, 2006 | News
Last November we said we must not be the first generation of Australians to leave our kids with fewer rights at work than we inherited. We said that we would fight these laws. Today I thank you all for working so hard over the last 12 months to keep that promise.When...
by Greg Combet | Dec 1, 2006 | News
At the outset I would like to make something very clear. It is an undeniable fact that millions of people have lost their rights at work under the new industrial relations laws. It is undeniable that many people have already been affected. And it is undeniable that...
by John von Doussa | Dec 1, 2006 | News
I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet today, and pay respect to their elders.An evolutionary process – the first stepOn 10 December 1948, Dr HV Evatt, then President of the United...
by Kevin Rudd | Dec 1, 2006 | News
Australia’s dying multilaterilismIntroductionMy thesis here is simple: first, during the last five years the Howard government has done much to undermine the preceding fifty years of Australian bi-partisan commitment to the United Nations’ multilateral...
by Greg Grandin | Dec 1, 2006 | News
Milton Friedman (1912-2006); Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006)Milton Friedman had no idea that his six-day trip to Chile in March 1975 would generate so much controversy. He was invited to Santiago by a group of Chilean economists who over the previous decades had been...
