Refugees: is the tide turning?
by Rowanne Couch | Sep 29, 2003
Opinion poll suggests changing moodAustralians no longer think refugees are a threat to Australia's borders but they deserve a fair go, said national human rights group A Just...
Howard lines up the big one
by Julia Gillard | Sep 29, 2003
Saving MedicareMedicare was born in 1984, a health system built by Labor and designed to give every Australian access to affordable health care. Throughout the 1980s, as Medicare...
How to stop America
by George Monbiot | Sep 29, 2003
Presidents Roosevelt and Truman were smart operators. They knew that the hegemony of the United States could not be sustained without the active compliance of other nations. So...
America and the week that was
by Evatt Foundation | Sep 29, 2003
President's perspectiveWe will long remember last week for all the contradictions that it raised, and for the challenge it presented for Australians to reject their political...
Why bother about economic inequality?
by Frank Stilwell | Sep 23, 2003
Fred Argy's book, Where to from here? Australian egalitarianism under threat, is a welcome publication, because economic inequality matters. Inequality has significant...
Ned Ludd, Adam Smith & Fred Argy
by Hugh Stretton | Sep 23, 2003
There's a library of recent books by us chatterers journalists and academics complaining about Australian inequalities. Here now is a rare stranger to the business: an expert,...
Achieving equality of opportunity
by Fred Argy | Sep 23, 2003
Where to from here?My new book focuses on three of the traditional pillars of economic egalitarianism in Australia:1. a strong, unconditional, need-based welfare safety net (to...
Fighting for our values
by Greg Combet | Aug 18, 2003
Rebuilding union powerI am very angry about what's happening in this country. Australia is becoming less fair, and less equal. We now have an army of two million low paid,...
Whitewash
by Robert Manne | Aug 5, 2003
IntroductionIn 1968, the anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner delivered what turned out to be perhaps the most consequential lecture ever broadcast on the ABC. Stanner called his...
‘Many deeds of terror’
by Naomi Parry | Aug 5, 2003
Windschuttle & MusquitoKeith Windschuttle has presented The Fabrication of Aboriginal History as 'the most exhaustive study that's ever been done.' 1 Yet within its pages are...