by Gareth Evans | Oct 17, 2019 | News
Not only in Australia but right around the world’s democracies, the quality of political leadership is as low as I can ever remember it — ranging, with only a handful of exceptions, from the underwhelming to the desolate to the appalling. Just about everywhere one...
by Christopher Sheil | Oct 16, 2019 | News
The Evatt Foundation has entered a period of transition that is most obviously marked by the retirement from the executive of our former President and Life Member, Bruce Childs, after an unmatched contribution that stretched over some 21 years. Our Assistant...
by Matt Ford | Oct 11, 2019 | News
President Donald Trump’s biggest problem in the impeachment battle is that the facts aren’t on his side. The White House’s own memo shows him pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden on flimsy corruption allegations. If that wasn’t...
by Anthony Forsyth | Oct 11, 2019 | News
What have Scott Morrison and and Attorney General Christian Porter got in mind for unions? The answer seems to be more of the same, more use of coercive power to make it harder for unions to fulfil their democratic functions of protecting workers and fighting...
by Christopher Sheil | Oct 8, 2019 | News
We have come here not only to mark the 40th anniversary of the Evatt Foundation, but also to honour Bruce Childs on his retirement from the Evatt executive. In practice, these two aims are effectively the same, given that Bruce has been a central figure in Evatt’s...
by Michelle Grattan | Oct 2, 2019 | News
The dramatic revelation by the New York Times that Donald Trump pressed Scott Morrison in an early September phone call for help in an exercise of overt presidential politicking does not indicate any Australian government wrongdoing. But it shows how Morrison’s...
