PPPs are public fraud
by George Monbiot | Jun 27, 2002
Public fraud initiativePoor visibility corrupts; invisibility corrupts absolutely. The private finance initiative, which is the means by which billions of pounds worth of new...
Australia’s elusive bill of rights
by Robert McClelland | Jun 27, 2002
How is a bill of rights relevant today?When the Twin Towers in New York collapsed on September 11 last year, the world changed - and Australia changed with it. Australia has been...
Union chief at the press club
by Greg Combet | Jun 15, 2002
Contemporary union strategyPersonal backgroundThe ACTU commissioned some focus group work recently, from which I received some sobering news. After two years as ACTU Secretary I...
Tassie stays on top, while Queensland slips
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 15, 2002
Tasmania has been assessed as Australia's best performing State in the Evatt Foundation's annual State Government League Table, released today in The State of the States 2002...
Refugees
by Julian Burnside | Jun 12, 2002
Australia's moral failureThe so-called refugee problem facing Australia is not a problem of national security; it is not a political or legal problem: it is overwhelmingly a...
Another UK rail disaster: not many dead
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 12, 2002
Why privatisation makes railways unsafeThe sequence of events after a rail disaster is now familiar: first, the speculation (or the hope in some quarters) that vandalism or, more...
PPPs: A policy in search of a rationale?
by Neil Vickers, Jean Shaoul, Allyson M Pollock | Jun 10, 2002
Private finance and 'value for money' in Britain's public hospitalsSummaryThe private finance initiative (PFI) brings no new capital investment into public services and is a debt...
Postmodernism: conspiring with the orthodoxy
by Yanis Varoufakis | Jun 10, 2002
Why critics of economics can ill-afford the 'postmodern turn'The dissident's nightmareIt is a sad irony when the activities of dissidents help shore up the establishment they set...
What Israel has done
by Edward Said | Jun 4, 2002
Despite Israel's effort to restrict coverage of its destructive invasion of the West Bank's Palestinian towns and refugee camps, information and images have nevertheless seeped...
Too Live N Deadly
by Evatt Foundation | Jun 2, 2002
Koori RadioPutting the soul back into SydneySydney is about to hear black voices and black music on the radio permanently. The city's first permanent Indigenous station will be...