by Monika Wheeler | Nov 10, 2005 | News
Firstly, I would just like to say that these are my views, and not the views of my employer or party.Why are political parties and activist organisations failing to communicate with young people, while Pentecostal church groups are recruiting active participants in...
by Evatt Foundation | Nov 10, 2005 | News
At the beginning of his famous essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell cited five passages of text as examples of mental vices. Each of the passages had faults of its own, but Orwell noted two qualities common to them all: ‘The first is staleness...
by Chas Savage | Nov 10, 2005 | News
Edmund Burke, who declared the tyranny of bad laws, was a deep political thinker and a ferocious polemicist. In 1777, he wrote to the Sheriffs of Bristol that the true danger to freedom was when liberty was nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.We should wish...
by Chris White | Nov 10, 2005 | News
“The right of workers to leave their jobs is a test of freedom. Hitler suppressed strikes. Stalin suppressed strikes. But each also suppressed freedom. There are some things worse than strikes, much worse than strikes – one of them is the loss of...
by Justine Eversson | Aug 3, 2005 | News
Philosophical undercurrents• Neo-liberal economics and a deregulated labour market – Men will always do better than women under these conditions• Social and moral conservatism – Women are homemakers – Men are breadwinners• This is not our world or...
by Josh Bornstein | Aug 3, 2005 | News
The Howard government’s industrial relations reforms are an attempt to resuscitate a myth that was discredited more than a century ago: the myth of freedom of contract.The new laws will shift employees away from collective agreements and awards and onto...
