by Patricia Ranald | Aug 10, 2002 | Papers
Trading away essential services?The World Trade Organisation negotiationsWhat if our government signed a legally binding international agreement, which prevented regulation of essential services like electricity or water to ensure equitable access and prices, and...
by Carmen Lawrence | Jul 28, 2002 | Papers
Talented artist sells his subject shortThe reviews of Don Watson’s memoir of his life as Paul Keating’s speechwriter, Recollections of A Bleeding Heart, have all been very approving, even rapturous. Romana Koval has described it is an “intriguing...
by Pierre Tristam | Jul 21, 2002 | Papers
Faith-based capitalism’s plunge into the market abyssFive years ago Bill Clinton announced that he was ending welfare as we knew it. Last week George W. Bush could have commemorated the occasion in his Wall Street speech by proposing to end capitalism as we know...
by Will Hutton | Jul 19, 2002 | Papers
Bye bye American pieThe US faces a grave economic crisis. The confidence in the balance sheets and reported profitability of American companies has been shattered by an orgy of unprecedented corporate fraud, plunder and malfeasance that has demanded the connivance of...
by George Monbiot | Jun 27, 2002 | Papers
Public fraud initiativePoor visibility corrupts; invisibility corrupts absolutely. The private finance initiative, which is the means by which billions of pounds worth of new public projects in the United Kingdom are now being funded, is doubly obscure: first because...
by Robert McClelland | Jun 27, 2002 | Papers
How is a bill of rights relevant today?When the Twin Towers in New York collapsed on September 11 last year, the world changed – and Australia changed with it. Australia has been fortunate among nations to have only had a very limited first hand experience of...
