Collisions: prospective, present & past
by Evatt Foundation | Aug 3, 2003
President's perspectiveThis month people marched through the streets of Sydney in the traditional Hiroshima day demonstration under the banner: 'Hiroshima, Never Again'. There...
Let’s get to it!
by Sharan Burrow | Aug 1, 2003
Australians want a fair country backFairness, tolerance, 'a fair go' - these are the values Australia has always aspired to but they are now in contest. John Howard's government...
What chance a fair and decent country?
by Simon Crean | Jun 26, 2003
A new deal for Australia and Australian familiesTuesday's budget should have improved life for Australian families. That's the test any government budget should meet. Australian...
Wanted: social healing
by Fred Argy | Jun 26, 2003
A Budget commentaryThe 2003/4 Budget should help to sustain our strong economic performance - but it does nothing to stop the erosion in Australian egalitarian values.Fiscal and...
Wanted: accountability & equality
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 26, 2003
President's perspectivePresident Bush and his chutzpah team want to rule the world. Chutzpah is a word applied to people who radiate belief in themselves without any apparent...
PPPs are rotting to the core
by Colin Crouch | Jun 26, 2003
PPPs in perspectiveIf public-private partnerships are meant to make public services more like businesses, why do they force public sector providers to contract out core...
One last time along the Hungry Mile
by Rowan Cahill | Jun 26, 2003
Tas Bull: 1932-2003Tas Bull, union leader, internationalist, socialist, seafarer, waterside worker and writer, died in his Sydney home on Thursday, May 29, aged 71.Five days...
On ‘fabricating’ history
by Stuart Macintyre | Jun 26, 2003
History, politics and the philosophy of historyIntroductionIn 1994 Keith Windschuttle published a strident polemic about The Killing of History. He suggested that the discipline...
If you build it they will come
by Tim Dunlop | Jun 26, 2003
Blogging & the new citizenshipThere's an old joke where two kids are sitting in a room and one says to the other, "There's an aphrodisiac behind that radiator." And the other...
Eating yourself
by Michael Pusey | Jun 26, 2003
The troubling experience of economic reformAnyone who turned forty with the new millennium will have spent all their adulthood living through what we so blithely call 'economic...