Is Trump right about ‘free trade’?
by Jim Stanford | May 4, 2018
Donald Trump’s bellicose policies, including new tariffs on steel and aluminium, have raised fears of a worldwide slide into protectionism and trade conflict. The US president’s...
Is Trump right about ‘free trade’?
by Jim Stanford | May 4, 2018
No, explains Jim Stanford, but trade should be managed.
Change the rules
by Sally McManus | Mar 21, 2018
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...
Universal basic income?
by Tim Dunlop | Dec 22, 2017
'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...
The paradise papers & the top 1%
by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | Dec 22, 2017
A trove of 13.4 million records exposes ties between Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary, the secret dealings of the chief fundraiser for...
The 1917 General Strike
by Lucy Taksa | Dec 22, 2017
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’...
Prophets & profits
by Bradon Ellem | Sep 27, 2017
The Pilbara and the remaking of Australian industrial relationsFor all its physical isolation, the Pilbara has become central to the Australian economy and imagination. Even with...
Labor’s defining mission
by Bill Shorten | Sep 27, 2017
The theme that you’ve chosen for this gathering is ‘an uncertain world’. We live in an uncertain world. We live in uncertain times—yes we do, we most certainly do. But...
Whither the ‘social’ in society?
by Daniel T. Rodgers | Jul 17, 2017
American historian Daniel T. Rogers discuses the Age of Fracture with Christopher Sheil.
Is Australian history still possible?
by Frank Bongiorno | Jul 17, 2017
Australia and the global eighties It is a mark of the limiting character of a purely national perspective that it has been so rarely noticed that two English-speaking...