by John Faulkner | Oct 23, 2002 | News
Ministers overboardOn 23 October the Senate Select Committee on a Certain Maritime Incident tabled its report, after eight months of work, 15 days of hearings, and non-stop obstruction from the government.Despite John Howard’s initial claim that he wasn’t...
by Evatt Foundation | Oct 21, 2002 | News
The Evatt Foundation in association with the Australian Financial Markets Association presents a seminar on public debtThe foreshadowed move to zero public debt is a significant issue for all citizens, not just the financial markets. Embracing zero debt also means...
by Jonathan Freedland | Oct 21, 2002 | News
The war on terror isn’t workingThe world has every right to feel angry. Not just with the perpetrators of the Saturday night massacre in Bali, but with the governments who vowed to wage a “war on terror” which would make attacks like it less...
by Evatt Foundation | Oct 20, 2002 | News
Go ahead. Send me a new generation of recruits. Your bombs will fuel their hatred of America and their desire for revenge. Americans and their allies won’t be safe anywhere. Please, attack Iraq. Distract yourself from fighting Al Qaeda. Divide the international...
by Evatt Foundation | Oct 7, 2002 | News
The autobiography of Eric Hobsbawm, arguably the world’s most accomplished living historian, and certainly the most accomplished historian within the Marxist tradition, was published in London by Allen Lane (The Penguin Press) on September 30.The unforgiving...
by Simon Tisdale | Aug 20, 2002 | News
Facts are best for this outbreakIt may come as a surprise to George Bush but the war over Iraq has already begun – in Britain. Among the warrior class that favours bashing Saddam, new cases of what might be termed second Gulf war syndrome are reported every day....