by Meg Smith | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
Firstly I would like to thank Rae Cooper and the Evatt Foundation and its supporters for the opportunity to bring to light the threat that the proposed legislative changes pose to current equal pay rights, and with it gender pay equity.This evening I would like to...
by John Della Bosca | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
Before commencing I would like to acknowledge that we stand on the traditional Aboriginal land of the Gadigal clan of the Eora people. I would also like to thank the Evatt Foundation for inviting me to speak. It is an important forum for the discussion of industrial...
by Arthur Chesterfield-Evans | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
First I would like to thank Mohamad Sadejhpour and the People’s Mujahideen of Iran for organising this forum.The Australian Democrats endorse the 3rd Option espoused by the National Council of Resistance of Iran: that the Iranian people and the Iranian...
by Chris White | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
The right to strike in Australia Industrial relations politics …. this time with power The Howard government again moves to implement radical right industrial relations policies – this time with Senate power. Contested industrial relations politics...
by Greg Combet | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
Employee rights and the economy Introduction On the 26th of May John Howard announced the government’s plans to rewrite Australia’s industrial relations laws, arguing that this was ‘one of the great pieces of unfinished business in the...
by Christopher Sheil | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
Globalisation revisited Globalisation is a notoriously difficult word to define. There is no ‘proper’ meaning for the term.1 ‘Globalisation’ is not a settled part of our language but a site of unresolved conflict. Indeed, one might even be...
