Budget … and fudge it
by Frank Stilwell | Jun 26, 2003
This year's federal budget got a generally positive response from the media. 'A tax cut for every Australian' headlined the Sydney Morning Herald the following day, followed by...
Behind the neo-con curtain
by Norman Madarasz | Jun 26, 2003
Plato, Leo Strauss & Allan BloomLe Monde. In these days of cowardly journalism, it would be far too normal to let credit not lie where it is due.The fact remains that the...
An international decent work strategy
by John Langmore | Jun 26, 2003
… the United Nations shall promote: (a) higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development;- Charter of the United...
Against despairing detachment
by Martha Nussbaum | Jun 26, 2003
Rules for the world stageThere once was a noble vision of what the world of international relations can be. In recent weeks this vision, once nearly realised, has receded from...
Working in America
by Roy Green | May 7, 2003
Review articleWhile many books written on the US economy and labour market of the 1990s have been superseded by events, Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market...
What’s next?
by Evatt Foundation | May 7, 2003
President's perspectiveWar & peace"The agenda, as always, begins with trying to find out what is happening in the world" Noam Chomksy concludes in his interview with Michael...
Trading our quality of life away
by Patricia Ranald | May 7, 2003
The US Free Trade Agreement and the GATSUS FTA: trading Australia away?Negotiations for an Australia-US Free Trade Agreement started on March 17 in Canberra, two days before the...
Towards the precipice
by Robert Brenner | May 7, 2003
At 6 am on 12 June 2002, four FBI agents barged into the SoHo loft of Samuel Waksal, the former CEO of the biotech company ImClone Systems Inc, and led him away in handcuffs: he...
The troops are workers too
by Evatt Foundation | May 7, 2003
Is there a 'Gulf War syndrome'?Kerry O'Brien, Compere, 7.30 Report: With Australian soldiers, sailors and aircrew now engaged in another war against Iraq, veterans of the...
The Iraq war
by Evatt Foundation | May 7, 2003
This interview was originally published by ZNet and is reproduced with kind permission.1) Why did the U.S. invade Iraq, in your view?These are naturally speculations, and policy...