Paying for private profit
by Greg Combet | Jan 25, 2004
Needed: A robust policy frameworkThe Australian community has a rightful expectation that in a developed and modern economy like ours, governments both state and federal, will...
Howard ignores the children
by Carmel Tebbutt | Jan 25, 2004
The federal cutsRecently the prime minister made one of his rare forays into child and family policy to urge "parents to take more responsibility for their children rather than...
Michael Moore’s big ask
by Evatt Foundation | Oct 26, 2003
Michael Moore's Stupid white men is publishing phenomenon. The largest selling non-fiction hardcover book of the year in the US; now in its 53rd US printing, and over 4 million...
Bushwacked
by Andrew Wilkie | Oct 20, 2003
Trust is a priceless commodityWell what an extraordinary year this has been so far. For a start one of the most stupid and dangerous US Presidents in living memory has invaded,...
‘White Slaves’ & White Australia
by Raelene Frances | Sep 29, 2003
Prostitution and the making of Australian SocietyI would like to begin this evening's lecture by introducing you to a sex worker. Her name is 'Joy'. For eighteen months in...
Trade & labour: not so fast
by John Langmore | Sep 29, 2003
Where are we now? Where are we headed?It is timely to review the trade and labour debate, for there has been an extension of our experience in both areas in recent years that...
The history wars
by Stuart Macintyre | Sep 29, 2003
The history wars are not history but an argument for control of the past as a political resource. They are conducted as a polemical argument and rest on a misunderstanding of the...
The hard road to fascism
by Abbott Gleason | Sep 29, 2003
A turning point for the US?The United States is at a turning point in its history. Some intellectuals and journalists have compared the destruction of Saddam Hussein with the...
The American era is ending
by Paul Keating | Sep 29, 2003
Australia's geopolitical & economic positioningThe world is about to enter the final phase of the third long economic wave of the 20th century. The first wave began in 1904...
The ALP in an international perspective
by Andrew Scott | Sep 29, 2003
Rediscovering comparative politicsThe Australian Labor Party is currently in opposition at the national level and has been for seven years. As such it is like most nominally left...