by Elizabeth Evatt | Sep 24, 2019 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 18
I remember when Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. I was 15. In other circumstances perhaps I would not have been aware of that momentous event, and I certainly could not have foreseen that I would later...
by Murray Goot | Sep 20, 2019 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 18
Everyone who believes the polls failed — individually and collectively — at the last election has a theory about why. Perhaps the pollsters had changed the way they found respondents and interviewed them? (Yet every mode — face-to-face interviewing, computer-assisted...
by James O'Neill | Aug 25, 2019 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 18
The announcement by the Prime Minister that Australia would be sending a military force to the Middle East is the latest in a series of foreign policy blunders that fails to recognise Australia’s foreign policy interests. The Prime Minster has announced yet another...
by Peter Martin | Aug 13, 2019 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers
During the election campaign then-opposition leader Bill Shorten repeatedly claimed that everything was going up. ‘Childcare is up 28 per cent, out of pockets to see the doctor up 20 per cent, specialists … up nearly 40 per cent,’ he said. And then the...
by Christopher Sheil, Frank Stilwell | May 17, 2019 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 18
For the first time in more than half a century, it is clear that the richest 10% of Australian households now own more than half the nation’s private wealth. Wealth inequality has grown significantly. Over the four years from 2012, the proportion of the nation’s...
by Frank Stilwell | May 17, 2019 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 18
Readers of this website don’t need to be reminded that inequality is a pervasive concern. During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Prominent public figures,...
