by Bruce Childs | Feb 1, 2005 | News, President's perspective
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 and what should have been done. At the Evatt Foundation Annual General Meeting in...
by Doug Cameron | Feb 1, 2005 | News
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 Party.Let me first attempt to set the context. The re-election of the Howard government...
by Maurie Mifsud | Feb 1, 2005 | News
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 Coalition government, led by John Howard, has set Medicare up to fail. This is based in...
by Sharan Burrow | Feb 1, 2005 | News
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 Howard government succeeds in passing new laws to restrict the right of unions to enter...
by John Merson | Feb 1, 2005 | News
It is ironic that Australia, for reasons of short-term economic interests, has refused to ratify the Kyoto protocols of the UN Convention on Climate Change. Australia, per head of population, is one of the highest producers of CO2 in the world, and yet on the basis of...
by Juan Cole | Feb 1, 2005 | News
I’m just appalled by the cheerleading tone of US news coverage of the so-called elections in Iraq on Sunday. I said on television last week that this event is a “political earthquake” and “a historical first step” for Iraq. It is an event...
