by Evatt Foundation | May 12, 2002 | News
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 the wharves. A pain for Patrick Stephen Long Chris Corrigan was exultant. “Imagine...
by Ian Black | Apr 24, 2002 | News
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 exactly? For me this was the running gag of federal politics...
by Gonzalo Villalta Puig, Paul Smith, George Campbell | Apr 22, 2002 | News
A challenge for 21st century Labor George Campbell Since my comments to the Sydney Morning Herald on 29 March, many have questioned why Labor should update its ‘socialist objective’ – the statement that appears on our party cards. The answer is...
by Paul Krugman | Apr 19, 2002 | News
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 seems to me to symbolize the passing of an era, one in which economic debate was both nicer...
by Susan Connelly, Tom Uren, Lydia Miller, John Yu | Apr 11, 2002 | News
Being thereJohn YuToday is Palm Sunday, and in the Christian tradition that provided me with my early values, it was a day where we bore witness to our beliefs in the days leading to Easter.That is why it is so appropriate that on Palm Sunday we join with other...
by Allan Patience | Mar 1, 2002 | News
The searching for scapegoats for the lies about children being thrown into the sea by asylum seekers is as morally repugnant as the lies themselves.Equally disgusting is the way the scapegoating is deflecting attention away from the time-honoured democratic doctrine...
