by Evatt Foundation | Jul 22, 2002 | News
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 nation’s only annual government performance assessment based on the...
by Sean Gonsalves | Jul 20, 2002 | News
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 criminality, anti-globalisation protesters and other factions of what I loosely refer to...
by Claude Martin | Jul 17, 2002 | News
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 increase even further. If governments do not take action to halt this then...
by Raelene Frances | Jul 7, 2002 | News
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 notorious massage parlours. I was then a postgraduate history student in my early...
by John Harms | Jul 6, 2002 | News
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 around drinking heavy beer and looking forward to the inevitable day when the working...
by Tanya Plibersek, Susan Ryan | Jun 29, 2002 | News
Women MPs must realise suffrage has not meant an end to suffering Susan Ryan After a hundred years of women’s votes, has the great vision of the suffragists been realised? Women have arrived in parliament and in numbers too great to ignore. How do we...
