A fair day’s pay: goodbye to all that
by Sharan Burrow | Apr 2, 2005
Be afraid. Be very afraid. There is a strong likelihood that this year's minimum wages case may be the last. From July, the government will have control of both houses of...
Where have all the women gone?
by Anne Summers | Feb 25, 2005
The end of equalityI have called this paper "Where have all the Women Gone". I hope you will both recognize - and forgive - the blatant allusion to a 1960s hit song. It was a...
Why consultants lie
by Peter Griffiths | Feb 1, 2005
One person, one economist, can get a government to change its policy. I have done it. Often. It is what I do for a living. My book, The Economist's Tale (Zed Books) shows one...
Threats, challenges & change
by John Langmore | Feb 1, 2005
A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, the report of the Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, is an impressive piece of work because...
The coming conflicts
by Evatt Foundation | Feb 1, 2005
President's perspective2004 was not a good year for the Australian labour movement or for our United States colleagues. Everyone will have a view on what they thought went wrong...
Priority issues
by Doug Cameron | Feb 1, 2005
I would like to comment on two issues of significance to Australia's working-class: the future of the Australian trade union movement and the future of the Australian Labor...
Peace building in West Papua
by Michela Noonan | Feb 1, 2005
Dialogue versus violenceThe West Papua Project is an initiative of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS), a non profit organisation which seeks to facilitate dialogue...
One hundred years of arbitration
by Stuart Macintyre | Feb 1, 2005
Nearly one hundred years ago a novel tribunal conducted its first hearing. A diminutive figure with a rasping voice and quick temper rose in a courtroom in Sydney to present a...
Medicare – where to now?
by Maurie Mifsud | Feb 1, 2005
Health (Medicare) remains the utmost priority of the Combined Pensioners and Superannuant's Association of NSW (CPSA).There exists a strong opinion abroad that the Federal...
Isolating workers
by Sharan Burrow | Feb 1, 2005
The ACTU has warned that many Australian employees could find it practically impossible to exercise their basic right to access information and assistance from a union, if the...