by Gillian Triggs | Sep 24, 2019 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 18
Thank you to the Evatt Foundation for your invitation to be part of this celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, under the Presidency of Dr H V Evatt. I was especially...
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...
