Evatt foundation

Social justice, equality, democracy & human rights

Home 9 Category: Papers ( Page 11 )
Evatt foundation
Social justice, equality, democracy & human rights
Home 9 Category: Papers ( Page 11 )

How to deal with the past?

The sins of a nation, the ritual of apology, the work of repentance National apologies are the ritual whereby we turn back to see ourselves through the eyes of the injured other, and from this place, step into a more ethical collective identity.The twentieth century...

Keating & his caucus

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...

Change the rules

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...

Universal basic income?

‘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...

The 1917 General Strike

  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...