Privatisation can be a death sentence
by Public Services International | Aug 3, 2002
Ghana: Keep water public!In Ghana, people are mobilising. They want to stop the leasing of their country's water supply to foreign multinationals. The local Coalition Against the...
News of the world: PPPs are a disaster
by Kenneth Davidson | Jul 27, 2002
The Minister for Finance, Nick Minchin, is one of the driest ministers in the Howard cabinet. He is also a smart politician and one of the Coalition's most serious policy...
Liberals smashed
by Evatt Foundation | Jul 22, 2002
A victory for the Tassie ALP ... and The state of the states.On Monday 15 July, Tasmania won first position on the Evatt Foundation's annual State Government League Table, the...
Nasty, brutish and short-sighted
by Pierre Tristam | Jul 21, 2002
Faith-based capitalism's plunge into the market abyssFive years ago Bill Clinton announced that he was ending welfare as we knew it. Last week George W. Bush could have...
Who are the idiots now?
by Sean Gonsalves | Jul 20, 2002
WTO protesters appear propheticWhat about states' rights? Before Enron, WorldCom and the rest of the Wall Street hustler stories broke, in this most recent wave of corporate...
Leaders wanted!
by Claude Martin | Jul 17, 2002
Humanity's footprint is crushing the earthHumanity's use of natural resources has exceeded the regenerative capacity of the Earth for the last two decades, and is projected to...
Selling sex
by Raelene Frances | Jul 7, 2002
Writing the history of prostitutionIn spring 1979, I spent a fascinating Saturday afternoon in the company of Mary Scrimgeour, the owner of several of Perth's largest and most...
Defining hegemony
by John Harms | Jul 6, 2002
Whatever happened to the Left?Whatever happened to the Left? The fair dinkum come-the-revolution Left? The comrades who kept the beret industry going? The true believers who sat...
Women’s suffrage: 100 years on
by Tanya Plibersek, Susan Ryan | Jun 29, 2002
Women MPs must realise suffrage has not meant an end to sufferingSusan RyanAfter a hundred years of women's votes, has the great vision of the suffragists been realised? Women...
High stakes for working women
by Anne Summers | Jun 29, 2002
Too few oohing at Goward's babyThe political stoush between the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward, and the Howard government over the right of employed women to paid...