The inequality crisis, industry bargaining and the future of the union movement
by Jo Schofield | Jun 30, 2018
Look around this room and imagine it represents Australia. Ask yourself: Why is it that one in four people here – in this room – are being paid the barest legal minimum? In many...
Gough Whitlam and the party of the fair go
by Anthony Albanese | Jun 22, 2018
In his first speech to Parliament, my late friend and mentor Tom Uren spoke about his experiences as a former prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. He recounted his...
OECD meets Piketty
by Ronald Janssen | May 20, 2018
An alternative economic narrative A picture can say more than a thousand words. This is certainly true for the set of graphs (see below) that the OECD published in its latest...
Mary Alice Evatt: Art for the People
by David Stratton | May 18, 2018
I was extremely honoured to be invited to speak at the opening of this magnificent exhibition of the works and the collection of Mary Alice Evatt, or Mas as she was often known...
What the fair go means
by Bill Shorten | May 10, 2018
The Opposition Leader's speech in reply to the 2018 Budget My fellow Australians, as I listened to the government's fifth budget on Tuesday night, I knew immediately we can do...
Where have we come from and where to next?
by Wayne Swan | May 4, 2018
I’m going to start by breaking a rule of progressive politics devised for us by George Lakoff a decade and more ago, when he said 'Don’t think of an elephant'. You might...
The compassionate city
by Jenny Donovan | May 4, 2018
‘We shape our cities, and afterwards our cities shape us', to paraphrase Winston Churchill. In this he eloquently drew a line between the built characteristics of our...
Lionel Murphy, ASIO & Croatian fascism
by Paul Lynch | May 4, 2018
Paul Lynch reviews a thriller by Tony Jones.
How to deal with the past?
by Danielle Celermajer | May 4, 2018
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,...
Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right
by Thomas Piketty | May 4, 2018
Rising inequality & the changing structure of political conflict (Evidence from France, Britain and the US, 1948-2017) Income inequality has increased substantially in most...