by Greg Combet | Aug 18, 2003 | News
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, casual, part time workers. One million people work for less than $15 per hour. At the same...
by Michael Kirby | Aug 3, 2003 | News
Mary Alice EvattLong suffering spousesHave you noticed a subtle change that has come over the Australian political scene? Not so long ago the spouses and partners of our political leaders lived entirely private lives. They might turn up at a few political functions....
by ACTU | Aug 3, 2003 | News
Policy background paper.Quick FactMothers are returning to work after parental leave with younger babies and infants. In 1976 only 16.6 per cent of mothers with children under one year old were in the labour force. By 2001 that figure was 35.5 per cent, and 54 per...
by Bruce Childs | Aug 3, 2003 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspectiveThis month people marched through the streets of Sydney in the traditional Hiroshima day demonstration under the banner: ‘Hiroshima, Never Again’. There are approximately 26,000 nuclear weapons in the United States, Britain,...
by Bruce Childs | Jun 26, 2003 | News, President's perspective
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 substantive reason for that belief. The president does of course have the world’s...
by Colin Crouch | Jun 26, 2003 | News
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 activities that private firms prefer to retain in-house?The use of private contractors in the...
