by Richard Holden | Jul 29, 2020 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 19
The COVID-19 crisis has created a massive public health crisis, and also an economic one. The public health crisis has been handled with differing success around the world. Countries like Italy and Spain were hit early, had little time or opportunity to learn the...
by Michele O’Neil | Jul 29, 2020 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 19
We know the devastation unemployment causes a person, a family, a community and the nation. The economic and social crisis facing our country is severe, and the impact will not be shared fairly. Joblessness hasn’t been worse in our lifetimes. The shocking TV...
by Evan Hughes | Jul 29, 2020 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 19
‘For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.’ – John Maynard...
by Sally McManus | Oct 26, 2019 | Papers
I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and their elders, past, present and future. When Bob Hawke addressed the 10th Anniversary of the Evatt Foundation in 1989 he rightly praised Doc Evatt as a great man who made a remarkable...
by Tanya Plibersek MP | Oct 5, 2019 | Papers
Thank you very much and I will start, of course, by acknowledging that we meet on the traditional lands of the Gadigal People and pay my respects to elders past and present. I want to say how fantastic it is to be here with Sally McManus tonight. I think Sally and I...
by Christopher Sheil, Frank Stillwell | Sep 24, 2019 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 18
The recent release of the results of the ABS’s biennial survey of income and wealth met a critical response, perhaps due to a slip-shod press release. The official statistician’s headline read: ‘Inequality stable since 2013-14’. In summary, the ABS announced, ‘income...