by Steve Keen | Dec 1, 2006 | News
Try this riddle. A lily in a pond is doubling in size every day. It takes 31 days to grow to cover half the pond. How many more days will it be before it covers the pond completely? The answer, of course, is just one more day.The object of the riddle is to point out...
by Evatt Foundation | Dec 1, 2006 | News, President's perspective
President’s report 2006 Our congratulations to Kevin Rudd and his Shadow Cabinet team. Kevin has shown that he has an informed understanding of Dr Evatt’s role in establishing Human Rights principles in the UN Charter. We will work with him in regaining...
by George Williams | Dec 1, 2006 | News
To pass the Work Choices legislation, the Howard government was forced to be creative. It did not have at its disposal a general power in the Constitution over industrial matters. Instead, it had to legislate indirectly by using the corporations power in section...
by Doug Cameron | Nov 14, 2006 | News
Thank you for the opportunity to address this Evatt Foundation seminar on the Howard government’s proposed industrial relations changes. I intend to discuss issues which go to the practical operation of the proposed system and the implications for working...
by John Falzon | Nov 14, 2006 | News
I wish to begin by paying respect to the traditional custodians and elders of this land on which we meet to share our stories, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. I pay respect to their spirit of survival and resistance in the face of structural oppression and...
by Evatt Foundation | Nov 14, 2006 | News
Victoria has been assessed as Australia’s best performing state in the annual Evatt Foundation State Government League Table, released today in The State of the States 2006.Victoria won the top position for the first time in the 13-year history of the annual...
