by Ron Jacobs | Sep 26, 2006 | News
I took my Harry Choates CD off the player, even though that Cajun violin he plays had a lot to say a year after Katrina hit. The new Bob Dylan album was in my hand and it was time to put the little disc on. Modern Times is what he’s calling it. The cover has one...
by Bruce Childs | Sep 26, 2006 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspectiveThe ACTU Congress next month will decide the trade union movement’s strategy leading up to Australia’s next state and federal elections and beyond. This month we feature ACTU secretary Greg Combet’s address to the...
by Greg Combet | Sep 26, 2006 | News
Remedying Australia’s industrial relationsI would like to thank the press club for using a photograph of me that is about seven or eight years old in the promotional material. I appreciate that because the last 12 or 18 months have been pretty hard going, and...
by Antony Loewenstein | Sep 26, 2006 | News
Truly free societies are defined by the limitations placed on free speech. What is permissible or illegal often determines the way we view subversive, extreme or outrageous opinions. The US is the most open nation on earth. Other countries are not so...
by Richard Broinowski | Sep 26, 2006 | News
Prime Minister Howard’s call for a ‘full-blooded’ debate about nuclear power has unleashed a flood of dangerously deceptive propaganda about the capacity of Australian uranium to save the planet from global warming. Nuclear power, whether fuelled by...
by Julia Gillard | Sep 26, 2006 | News
Earle Page’s lifeEarle Christmas Grafton Page was Minister for Health, from 1949 to 1956, in the government of Robert Menzies. He is remembered for this rather than for his 20 days as Prime Minister in April 1939, when he acted as a caretaker after the death in...
