The maintenance of institutional values
by Jim Spigelman | May 28, 2002
Research library futuresThe contribution that is made by the administration of justice to the social and economic welfare of Australia is in large measure based on institutional...
Costello’s 7th budget
by Frank Stilwell, Fred Argy | May 17, 2002
The Budget & Australian egalitarianismFred ArgyEconomic effectiveness of the BudgetGood fiscal governance calls for long term strategic management of the nation's saving and...
Death & life
by Guy Rundle | May 16, 2002
Broken-hearted threnody; the crisis in embryoBroken-hearted threnodyWe are entering a period of apparent total power for the United States. Its military dominance is all but...
Workers, women & superannuation
by Diana Olsberg, Greg Combet | May 15, 2002
Reaffirming the role of unionsGreg CombetIntroductionBill Kelty's passion for superannuation, and the efforts he and others made towards achieving the system we have today,...
War on terror
by Duncan Kerr. | May 13, 2002
Wise precautions or impunity for abuses?IntroductionAlthough there has been much concerned discussion in Australia about the events of September 11 and their aftermath,...
On the waterfront
by Evatt Foundation | May 12, 2002
Four years after the MUA settled with Patrick, Stephen Long reports on working conditions, Stuart Macintyre recalls the dispute and Christopher Sheil reflects on our own War on...
Beazley’s small ball
by Ian Black | Apr 24, 2002
They didn't know BeazleyHold your fire. Hide your policies. Don't let the punters know what you've got. Hold your fire ... keep holding ... hold ... hold ...Until, er, when...
ANZAC Day
by Tom Uren | Apr 23, 2002
Our mission for this new milleniumIt was 87 years ago this Anzac Day that our gallant forces landed on Gallipoli. Although our Federation of States was created by becoming the...
The socialist objective: should it go?
by Gonzalo Villalta Puig, Paul Smith, George Campbell | Apr 22, 2002
A challenge for 21st century LaborGeorge CampbellSince my comments to the Sydney Morning Herald on 29 March, many have questioned why Labor should update its 'socialist...
Vale James Tobin
by Paul Krugman | Apr 19, 2002
Missing James TobinJames Tobin, Yale professor, Nobel laureate and adviser to John F Kennedy, died yesterday. He was a great economist and a remarkably good man; his passing...