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News: Evatt Newsletter #9 September-October 200204 October 2002
Welcome to a double issue of the online newsletter of the Evatt Foundation.
If you would like any of your friends or colleagues to subscribe to this newsletter, please refer them to the subscribe form at: http://evatt.org.au/forms/subscribe.html. What's new on the Evatt Site...?News & viewsWar with IraqMargo Kingston on Labor and the Doc's legacy.
Australia's elders demand loyalty to the UN.
Al Gore rejects the Bush Doctrine.
There are no credible reasons for war with Iraq, says Simon Tisdall.
Gareth Evans and Tariq Ali are interviewed by Maxine McKew.
Phillip Knightley recalls earlier 'regime changes'.
The world's leaders slept through JoburgThe Sustainable Development Summit failed, reports Claude Martin.
Australia loads the dice against working mothersAnne Summers writes to the PM on paid maternity leave, and more.
Modernity bucks at the postWho's afraid of historical truth? Catherine Keenan reports.
Interesting TimesEric Hobsbawm's autobiography published.
Eric Aarons reflects on the Left, with Tristan Ewins.
FeaturePPPs: Propaganda, partnership & privatisationsThe times dictate that we republish "Politics & the English Language", by George Orwell.
Christopher Sheil finds the humour in PPPs at the Evatt Breakfast Seminar.
Retire the '5 per cent Club', argues ACTU President, Sharan Burrow.
Paul Krugman unpicks the spin on privatising US social security, while John Quiggin claims the reality is sinking in.
The great Telstra debate continues, as David Roffey backs the case for divesting.
We still hate it: David Hayward surveys attitudes to the great Australian sell-out.
New papersThe ALP and cultural democracyThe post-industrial working class culture is there for the ALP to see, argues Tony Moore. 2002 Eureka PrizeJeremy Moss debunks 'mutual obligation'.
PublicationsNow order PSRC publications onlineTitles from the Public Sector Research Centre are now available for ordering online through the Evatt Foundation, including: Globalisation, Change & the Public Sector; Care in Crisis: The effects of funding changes on local government sponsored child care; Fiscal Stance and Public Savings: Australia and the OECD Compared; Fiscal Policy in a Global Economy; New Strategies for New Times: Rethinking Teacher Unionism in TAFE ... and more.
EventsMas in MelbourneFollowing the success of the presentation at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, the exhibition of Mary Alice Evatt's work is now showing at Melbourne's Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Prisoners as citizensDavid Brown talks about human rights in Australian prisons on 15 October at the University of NSW.
President Bush's threat to invade Iraq: How should Australia respond?An all-party debate at the University of NSW on 20 October.
Immigration and human rights: European experiences and Australian resonancesA major international conference at the University of Melbourne on 7-8 November, featuring Mary Robinson, Wolfgang Grenz (Amnesty International, Germany), James Jupp (Australian National University), Dieter Oberndoerfer (Head of the Council for Migration in Germany)
Bernard Porter (University of Newcastle, UK), Paul Scheffer (journalist and public commentator, the Netherlands), Harald Waldrauch (European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna), Andreas Zumach and many others.
Thirty years later: The Whitlam government as modernist politicsA major conference at Old Parliament House Canberra on 2-3 December, featuring Elizabeth Evatt, Carmen Lawrence, Evelyn Scott, John Faulkner, Race Mathews, Graham Freudenberg, Elizabeth Reid, Jocelynne A. Scutt, Julia Gillard ... and, of course, giving the keynote address, the Hon E.G. Whitlam AC QC.
What happened to investigative journalism?In the pipeline: More soon.
LettersSiteInformative & interesting, writes Natalie Tan.
What about education policy? asks Anna Brazier (Evatt replies).
Evatt should be a mug, writes Danny Evatt.
A history lesson on IraqYes, but what about the 'weapons of mass destruction'? asks Mohammad Gill (Evatt clarifies).
Social democracy under consumer capitalismClear vision at last, writes Steve Bell.
Commitment and generosity: go to school, writes Joe Edmonds.
PPPs & privatisationThe worm of wedge politics has crawled through many gutters, writes Steven Presley.
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