by Anthony Ashbolt | May 4, 2018 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
It gives me great pleasure to help launch Jim’s book Keating and his Party Room. Jim Snow was the chair of the Labor Party’s federal caucus in the Keating government from 1993 to 1996. These years are the key focus of the book (although it does range beyond...
by Sally McManus | Mar 21, 2018 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
For more secure jobs and fair pay Australian workers are ruled by laws which have destroyed job security and left us struggling to pay the bills. Once the promise of living in Australia was that each generation would pass on something better to the next. Better...
by Tim Dunlop | Dec 22, 2017 | Issue 5, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
‘Challenging but possible.’ If you want to understand how transformative a universal basic income, or UBI, might be, it’s hard to beat the story told by Guy Standing during the lecture he gave in Melbourne in 2015. He was talking about a UBI trial he had...
by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | Dec 22, 2017 | Issue 5, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
A trove of 13.4 million records exposes ties between Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary, the secret dealings of the chief fundraiser for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the offshore interests of the queen of...
by Lucy Taksa | Dec 22, 2017 | Issue 5, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
Lessons from the greatest industrial upheaval in Australian history One hundred years ago, Australia experienced what became known as the NSW General Strike or ‘Great Strike’ of 1917. Officially the strike began on 2 August, when 5,780 of the workers employed at the...
by Bradon Ellem | Sep 27, 2017 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
The Pilbara and the remaking of Australian industrial relationsFor all its physical isolation, the Pilbara has become central to the Australian economy and imagination. Even with the heat out of the mining boom, the Pilbara remains a media staple, with an obsessive...
