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Read Chapter Eight on globalisation and regional governance by Kevin Rudd from the Evatt Foundation's book, Globalisation: Australian Impacts (UNSW Press). Posted: 01 February 2008 [ Details ] The First Casualty: Your essential guide The revised edition of Phillip Knightley's classic study of war, lies, lying and liars is now available. Posted: 04 August 2007 [ Details ] War on the Wharves: A Cartoon History The Easter 1998 wharf dispute shook Australia to its foundations. The country's audacious cartoonists rose to the occasion, tapping into the national psyche to create these extraordinary drawings. Posted: 16 May 2007 [ Details ] The journey to better health care Read a sample chapter from The State of the States 2006. Posted: 09 December 2006 [ Details ] The State of the States 2006: The tables The performance tables from the Evatt Foundation's new book The State of the States 2006. Posted: 10 November 2006 [ Details ] The State of the States 2006: The book Australia's only annual triple-bottom line assessment of government performance. Posted: 09 November 2006 [ Details ] The State of the States 2006: Background The following is a background briefing on the The State of the States 2006. Posted: 08 November 2006 [ Details ] The State of the States: Past results Thirteen years of The State of the States. Posted: 07 November 2006 [ Details ] What about working children? Read a sample chapter from the The State of the States 2005. Posted: 20 February 2006 [ Details ] What about collective bargaining? Read a sample chapter from The State of the States 2005. Posted: 15 February 2006 [ Details ] Results: The State of the States 2005 These performance tables are from the Evatt Foundation's book: The State of the States 2005. Posted: 15 January 2006 [ Details ] Five special essays Read the introduction to The State of the States 2005. Posted: 23 November 2005 [ Details ] The State of the States 2005 The following is a background briefing on the Evatt Foundation's book: The State of the States 2005. Posted: 14 November 2005 [ Details ] The state of child protection Read the chapter on child protection from the Evatt Foundation's report: The State of the States 2003, the 10th anniversary issue. Posted: 17 October 2005 [ Details ] Trade Wars in the Information Economy Read Chapter Four on globalisation, telecommunications & Telstra by Ros Eason from the Evatt Foundation's book, Globalisation: Australian Impacts (UNSW Press). Posted: 17 August 2005 [ Details ] Prisons as progressive punishment? The present psychological approach to prison programs is increasing the threat to community safety, argues Mark Findlay. Posted: 08 August 2005 [ Details ] Unhealthy partnerships Paul Fitzgerald on PPPs, at the launch of The State of the States 2004. Posted: 11 February 2005 [ Details ] The Results: State of the States These performance tables are from the Evatt Foundation's report: The State of the States 2004. Posted: 25 October 2004 [ Details ] It Never Has Been Easy: Democracy Lionel Orchard on globalisation and democracy, from Globalisation: Australian Impacts (UNSW Press). Posted: 20 October 2004 [ Details ] Thank You Very Much and Good Luck: Media Terry Flew & Stuart Cunningham on the media, from Globalisation: Australian Impacts (UNSW Press). Posted: 16 October 2004 [ Details ] The State of the States 2003 The following is a background briefing on the Evatt Foundation's report: The State of the States 2003. Posted: 08 December 2003 [ Details ] Managing the New Social Risks: Welfare Read Chapter Thirteen on globalisation and welfare by Deborah Mitchell from the Evatt Foundation's new book, Globalisation: Australian Impacts (UNSW Press). Posted: 17 August 2003 [ Details ] Globalisation now available in reprint The Evatt Foundation's book, Globalisation: Australian Impacts (UNSW Press), has been reprinted and is now available from all good bookstores. Copies may also be purchased from the Foundation itself. Posted: 20 June 2003 [ Details ] The Fall and Rise of the Global Economy Read Chapter Two on globalisation and financial markets by John Quiggin from the Evatt Foundation's new book: Globalisation: Australian Impacts (UNSW Press). Posted: 01 May 2003 [ Details ] Globalisation is ... Globalisation Read the introduction to the Foundation's book, Globalisation: Australian Impacts (UNSW Press), by Christopher Sheil. Posted: 27 January 2003 [ Details ] Commonwealth Debt Management Review The Evatt Foundation's submission on public debt policy. Posted: 18 December 2002 [ Details ] Now order PSRC Publications Online Titles now available for ordering online include: 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. Posted: 02 October 2002 [ Details ] The State of the States 2002 The following is a background briefing on the Evatt Foundation's report: The State of the States 2002. Posted: 14 July 2002 [ Details ] State Performance Tables The 2002 results will be posted on 15 July. These State performance tables are extracted from last year's Evatt Foundation's report: The State of the States 2001, now in its second printing. Posted: 18 November 2001 [ Details ] The State of the States 2001 The following is a background briefing on the Evatt Foundation's report: The State of the States 2001, now in its second printing. Posted: 15 November 2001 [ Details ] Papers
Elizabeth Evatt reviews progress in human rights in memory of Jessie Street. Posted: 06 June 2008 [ Details ] The dream weaver vs the problem solver Anne Summers reviews the Democratic primary race. Posted: 25 February 2008 [ Details ] "A landscape of revolutions" Richard Flanagan launches James Boyce's Van Dieman's Land. Posted: 20 February 2008 [ Details ] To right a great wrong The prime minister crosses the threshold. Posted: 13 February 2008 [ Details ] APEC Australian foreign policy can make a difference, argues Paul Keating, but you have to dare to try. Posted: 23 August 2007 [ Details ] Human rights and reconciliation Respect for human rights, equality and justice must be at the heart of reconciliation, argues Elizabth Evatt. Posted: 22 June 2007 [ Details ] A heartland of instability Use the evidence based policies not moral vanity, says Marcia Langton. Posted: 25 May 2007 [ Details ] China’s new labour law China moves beyond WorkChoices, reports Chris White. Posted: 21 April 2007 [ Details ] Organising China's Wal-Mart Chris White finds reason for optimism in China. Posted: 21 April 2007 [ Details ] Hayek & market fundamentalism Hayek was an ideologue as well as a theorist, explains Andrew Gamble. Posted: 04 March 2007 [ Details ] Hayek & Rawls The Australian right should take Hayek more seriously, argues Don Arthur. Posted: 04 March 2007 [ Details ] Beyond right and left Tristan Ewins reviews David McKnight's book on new politics and the culture wars. Posted: 04 March 2007 [ Details ] The future of reconciliation Be an active participant, argues Mick Dodson. Posted: 14 December 2006 [ Details ] The Road from Serfdom Greg Grandin recalls Milton Friedman, Augusto Pinochet and the economics of Empire. Posted: 02 December 2006 [ Details ] America, after the wave The mid-terms: Tom Engelhardt writes from the US. Posted: 13 November 2006 [ Details ] Shoulder to shoulder This is the fight of my life, pledges Kim Beazley. Posted: 04 November 2006 [ Details ] An endangered species A campaign for a national Human Rights Act should be initiated now, argues Neville Wran. Posted: 03 November 2006 [ Details ] Intolerance, terrorism & fear Our democracy is not functioning as it should, observes Richard Woolcott. Posted: 20 October 2006 [ Details ] There is a better, fairer way Greg Combet lays out his vision at the National Press Club. Posted: 13 September 2006 [ Details ] John Kenneth Galbraith: 1908-2006 Evan Jones reflects on the great economist. Posted: 28 August 2006 [ Details ] The horizon of a programmed reality William Merrin assesses the extraordinary thought of Jean Baudrillard. Posted: 14 August 2006 [ Details ] International support needed The ACTU President addresses the ILO. Posted: 22 June 2006 [ Details ] Generations, social change & writing Rebecca Huntley reflects on The World According to Y. Posted: 21 June 2006 [ Details ] Beyond industrial relations How new is WorkChoices, asks Bradon Ellem. Posted: 20 June 2006 [ Details ] The Contract Regulation Club The assault on Australia's workers is riddled with self-serving doublethink, explains Braham Dabscheck. Posted: 07 June 2006 [ Details ] Democracy The fate of democracy is yet to be determined, explains John Keane. Posted: 04 May 2006 [ Details ] Nuclear energy & greenhouse Is nuclear energy a possible solution to the greenhouse problem? Posted: 17 April 2006 [ Details ] The social democratic agenda Bring the trade union movement closer, argues Mark Buttigieg. Posted: 17 April 2006 [ Details ] Australia is unique, unfortunately Abandon the reactive approach to protecting human rights, says George Williams. Posted: 09 April 2006 [ Details ] An inextricable link New strategies and tactics are needed, says Geoff Derrick. Posted: 28 March 2006 [ Details ] Remembering the Universal Declaration Shut the detention centres down, says Mary Gaudron. Posted: 25 March 2006 [ Details ] Is history fiction? Ann Curthoys & John Docker discuss their new book. Posted: 13 March 2006 [ Details ] The industrial relations 'reforms' Australia’s leading industrial relations researchers examine Howard's new regime. Posted: 28 February 2006 [ Details ] Income inequality & health You might die waiting, argues John Wicks. Posted: 20 February 2006 [ Details ] Should Australia have a Bill of Rights? Recent history causes Ron Dyer to change his mind. Posted: 20 February 2006 [ Details ] The ghost in the machine? On the 70th anniversary of Keynes’ General Theory, Christopher Sheil speculates. Posted: 05 February 2006 [ Details ] Economic challenges & WorkChoices There is another way, explains Greg Combet. Posted: 04 November 2005 [ Details ] From Deakin to Howard Bob Hawke excoriates John Howard's industrial relations scheme. Posted: 28 October 2005 [ Details ] Public-private partnerships Christopher Sheil reality checks public-private partnerships. Posted: 26 October 2005 [ Details ] Farewell to the 'fair go' Australian egalitarianism is in the gun, explains Belinda Probert. Posted: 23 October 2005 [ Details ] A turbulent decade Rowan Cahill introduces a new book on social ideas and movements that changed Australian culture. Posted: 16 October 2005 [ Details ] Saving globalization Jay Mandle argues that political and economic activism can help the poor in all countries. Posted: 25 August 2005 [ Details ] Industrial relations Greg Combet addresses the press club on Howard's labour agenda. Posted: 07 July 2005 [ Details ] Inside the tent Chris White assesses Australia's labour law against international standards. Posted: 04 July 2005 [ Details ] In the era of perpetual war Does the concept of 'globalisation' hide more than it reveals, asks Christopher Sheil. Posted: 31 May 2005 [ Details ] Farewell Hitch George Scialabba essays eloquently on Christopher Hitchens' astonishing loss of moral and intellectual balance. Posted: 28 April 2005 [ Details ] How to kill a country Australia can and should walk away from its devastating trade deal with the US, argue Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Mathews. Posted: 20 April 2005 [ Details ] The right to politically strike? Chris White examines the arguments about direct action. Posted: 13 April 2005 [ Details ] Curtailing worker rights The workplace could soon resemble TV's "Survivor" program, argues Warwick McDonald. Posted: 12 April 2005 [ Details ] Rhetoric and reality in the New Tasmania At least to some extent, it's the culture, stupid, says Stewart Prins. Posted: 12 April 2005 [ Details ] Labor & the future Sol Encel measures the abyss. Posted: 10 April 2005 [ Details ] Broadband versus narrowband economics "Mainstream economics" has retreated to fantasy, argues Edward Fullbrook. Posted: 10 February 2005 [ Details ] One hundred years of arbitration Stuart Macintyre reflects on Australia's arbitration system. Posted: 07 February 2005 [ Details ] In defence of Dr Herbert Vere Evatt The true story behind the outing of 'The Movement'. Posted: 02 February 2005 [ Details ] Peace building in West Papua Michela Noonan reports on the West Papua Project. Posted: 03 November 2004 [ Details ] The imperative to aid development John Langmore reminds us that poverty is a much more pervasive threat than terrorism. Posted: 28 September 2004 [ Details ] A completely misleading description The 'free trade' agreement isn't, explains John Quiggin. Posted: 12 June 2004 [ Details ] Australian television content The AUSFTA makes it an endangered species, explains Greg Duffy. Posted: 03 June 2004 [ Details ] The FTA and the PBS Peter Drahos and his colleagues separate fact from fiction. Posted: 01 June 2004 [ Details ] Declining trade union membership Geoffrey Beckman argues that anti-union laws are the primary cause. Posted: 31 May 2004 [ Details ] Ten devils in the detail Patricia Ranald and Louise Southalan explain the finer points of the text of the Australia US Free Trade Agreement Posted: 20 May 2004 [ Details ] A Trojan horse? The US trade agreement may corrupt Australia's pharmaceuticals policy, argues John Merson. Posted: 13 May 2004 [ Details ] Poverty and national security Is national security possible without real action to eliminate poverty ? Posted: 16 April 2004 [ Details ] Labor and the world The Labor leader outlines his party's foreign policy. Posted: 16 April 2004 [ Details ] Embracing multilateralism International law is crucial in an interconnected world, argues Brendan Lim. Posted: 16 April 2004 [ Details ] Where have all the women gone? Time to turn the clock forward, argues Anne Summers Posted: 27 January 2004 [ Details ] The myths of PPPs The PPP model is often inappropriate, poorly understood and expensive, explain Graham Larcombe and Paul Fitzgerald. Posted: 22 January 2004 [ Details ] The ALP in an international perspective Labor should broaden its horizons, argues Andrew Scott. Posted: 23 October 2003 [ Details ] A tribute to Jim Cairns Tom Uren says farewell. Posted: 19 October 2003 [ Details ] 'White Slaves' & White Australia Raelene Frances looks at Australia through the trade in sex workers. Posted: 29 September 2003 [ Details ] Saving America Shadia Drury gets to the bottom of neoconservatism. Posted: 10 September 2003 [ Details ] The hard road to fascism Today’s anti-liberal revolt looks a lot like 1920s Europe, argues Abbott Gleason. Posted: 07 September 2003 [ Details ] ‘Many deeds of terror’ Naomi Parry rescues the reputation of an Aboriginal patriot. Posted: 29 August 2003 [ Details ] Whitewash The introduction to the major rebuttal of Keith Windschuttle. Posted: 29 August 2003 [ Details ] Understanding religious fundamentalism More responsibility is needed, says Randa Abdel-Fattah. Posted: 28 August 2003 [ Details ] Fighting for our values The Secretary's address to the ACTU Congress. Posted: 28 August 2003 [ Details ] Future of work Policy background paper. Posted: 28 August 2003 [ Details ] Understanding religious fundamentalism There is no mystery about this trouble, explains Ray Richmond. Posted: 28 August 2003 [ Details ] Speaking of media bias Evan Jones condemns Australia's media coverage of the Iraq War. Posted: 28 August 2003 [ Details ] The ABC fades to black Tony Moore critiques the latest developments. Posted: 28 August 2003 [ Details ] Let's get to it! The President's address to the ACTU Congress. Posted: 27 August 2003 [ Details ] Criminals and pimps Shayne Breen assesses the denigration of Tasmanian Aboriginal society. Posted: 27 August 2003 [ Details ] Monitorial cyber-citizens? Weblogging presents political diversity, suggests Ken Parish. Posted: 12 August 2003 [ Details ] The work/life collision We must again find our own approaches to care for our own time and place, argues Barbara Pocock. Posted: 04 August 2003 [ Details ] Achieving equality of opportunity Fred Argy discusses his new book. Posted: 27 July 2003 [ Details ] Why bother about economic inequality? Frank Stilwell introduces our Breakfast Seminar on equality. Posted: 27 July 2003 [ Details ] How to stop America The Chartist movement of the 21st century. Posted: 27 July 2003 [ Details ] Ned Ludd, Adam Smith & Fred Argy Hugh Stretton closes the Evatt Breakfast Seminar on equality. Posted: 27 July 2003 [ Details ] Speaking to the Heart Justice Kirby opens the Mary Alice Exhibition. Posted: 18 July 2003 [ Details ] One last time along the Hungry Mile Tas Bull dedicated his life to those struggling for social justice, sums Rowan Cahill. Posted: 24 June 2003 [ Details ] On 'fabricating' history Stuart Macintyre disciplines Keith Windschuttle. Posted: 22 June 2003 [ Details ] If you build it they will come The new public intellectuals are out there, argues Tim Dunlop. Posted: 17 June 2003 [ Details ] Behind the neo-con curtain Norman Madarasz rescues Plato from the neo-cons Posted: 05 June 2003 [ Details ] Eating yourself Michael Pusey looks at the dark side. Posted: 05 June 2003 [ Details ] An international decent work strategy John Langmore confronts the task of creating jobs in the era of globalisation. Posted: 04 June 2003 [ Details ] Towards the precipice Robert Brenner continues his remarkable history of the postwar world economy. Posted: 05 May 2003 [ Details ] Intellectuals, democracy and empire Robert Blecher traces imperialism's intellectual boosters. Posted: 02 May 2003 [ Details ] Out of the rubble Paul McGeough's final report from Baghdad. Posted: 28 April 2003 [ Details ] Vale Christopher Hill Martin Kettle appreciates the life of the master historian. Posted: 11 March 2003 [ Details ] Power Politics New book calls for royal commission into SA power, outlines John Spoehr. Posted: 11 March 2003 [ Details ] A permanent casualty Phillip Knightley assesses the state of his craft. Posted: 17 February 2003 [ Details ] The coming war with Iraq Michael Klare assesses the price of war. Posted: 28 January 2003 [ Details ] Somebody else's civil war Why does Islamic extremism want to provoke the US, asks Michael Scott Doran. Posted: 23 January 2003 [ Details ] The state of political economy Alternative voices must be heard, maintains Frank Stilwell. Posted: 22 January 2003 [ Details ] The European Lecture Will Hutton praises the value of European interdependence. Posted: 22 January 2003 [ Details ] Divisions over public debt There is no financial restraint on government spending, argues William Mitchell. Posted: 21 January 2003 [ Details ] Trade union organising & labour history Unions have their destiny in their hands, argue Rae Cooper & Greg Patmore. Posted: 21 January 2003 [ Details ] Commonwealth Debt Management Review The Evatt Foundation's submission on public debt policy. Posted: 18 December 2002 [ Details ] What are we here for? Bob Ellis faces the music. Posted: 10 December 2002 [ Details ] The enduring significance of John Rawls Martha Nussbaum assesses the work of the late, great philosopher. Posted: 08 December 2002 [ Details ] Solidarity forever Bob Hawke salutes Australia's peak union council Posted: 08 December 2002 [ Details ] Different dimensions of debt Frank Stilwell presents the big picture. Posted: 29 November 2002 [ Details ] The Fabian Society & the Labor tradition Labor's Simon Crean talks about his values and beliefs. Posted: 28 November 2002 [ Details ] Is zero government debt desirable? Tony Aspromourgos defines the issues. Posted: 19 November 2002 [ Details ] What do we expect of government? If we are to restore the healthy Australian cynicism toward government to the place where a deep disaffection is now growing, argues Christopher Sheil, we not only need to fix the national competition policy, we need to reform the more widespread approach to governing that this policy merely exemplifies. Posted: 15 November 2002 [ Details ] East is East and West is Best Craig Emerson on trade, the GATS & Asia-Australia relations. Posted: 11 November 2002 [ Details ] PPPs in South Australia It's the third wave of privatisation, says John Spoehr. Posted: 07 November 2002 [ Details ] Bond traders take on Costello Philip Baker backgrounds the Australian government's extraordinary debt policy. Posted: 24 October 2002 [ Details ] What women want Australia needs a policy sea change argues Carmen Lawrence. Posted: 23 October 2002 [ Details ] In the right corner ... Who's winning modernity's cultural war? Posted: 03 October 2002 [ Details ] Politics & the English Language The times dictate republishing this classic essay. Posted: 02 October 2002 [ Details ] Iraq & the war on terrorism Al Gore rejects the Bush Doctrine. Posted: 25 September 2002 [ Details ] The ALP and cultural democracy The cultural challenge for Labor is to listen not lecture, argues Tony Moore. Posted: 05 September 2002 [ Details ] The trouble with PPPs Christopher Sheil critiques public-private partnerships (PPPs). Posted: 03 September 2002 [ Details ] The public good & public services David Hayward assesses community attitudes to privatisation. Posted: 02 September 2002 [ Details ] A history lesson on Iraq Phillip Knightley recalls earlier 'regime changes'. Posted: 23 August 2002 [ Details ] There are other ways Retire the '5 per cent Club', argues ACTU President, Sharan Burrow. Posted: 22 August 2002 [ Details ] Ethics, politics & mutual obligation Jeremy Moss debunks 'mutual obligation'. Posted: 22 August 2002 [ Details ] Riders on the Storm John Densmore discusses the remarkable story behind the music of the legendary band, The Doors. Posted: 11 August 2002 [ Details ] 'Mas': A memoir Rosalind Carrodus remembers Mary Alice Evatt Posted: 08 August 2002 [ Details ] 'A fresh point of view' Melissa Boyde reviews the life and work of Mary Alice Evatt Posted: 08 August 2002 [ Details ] A certain fusion Nick Sherry says Labor has fairer and better superannuation ideas. Posted: 05 August 2002 [ Details ] Why manufacturing matters George Campbell discusses policy for manufacturing industry. Posted: 03 August 2002 [ Details ] What role for Telstra? A Telstra break-up would be against the national interest, argues Ros Eason Posted: 28 July 2002 [ Details ] Undermining our best chance Kevin Rudd places Australia's International Criminal Court fiasco in context. Posted: 08 July 2002 [ Details ] Refugees The so-called refugee problem facing Australia is not a problem of national security; it is not a political or legal problem: it is overwhelmingly a moral problem. Posted: 18 June 2002 [ Details ] Social democracy & consumer capitalism Clive Hamilton's controversial address to the national left. Posted: 31 May 2002 [ Details ] PPPs: A policy in search of a rationale? The justification for using private finance for social infrastructure is a sleight of hand, argue Allyson Pollock and her colleagues. Posted: 29 May 2002 [ Details ] The maintenance of institutional values The Chief Justice of New South Wales maintains his objections to the so-called 'new managerialism'. Posted: 26 May 2002 [ Details ] What Israel has done The profound question facing Israel and its people is this, says Edward Said: Is it willing to assume the rights and obligations of being a country like any other, and forswear the kind of impossible colonial assertions for which Sharon and his parents and soldiers have been fighting since day one? Posted: 17 May 2002 [ Details ] No more islands In delivering the annual Kingsley Laffer lecture, Michael Kirby considers Australia's arbitration system, the ILO, racial and other forms of discrimination, and human rights in the ever changing context of globalisation. Posted: 24 April 2002 [ Details ] ‘Funny you should ask for that’ Stuart Macintyre surveys the declines in the disciplines of the sciences, social sciences and humanities, and proposes some practical steps to sustain the academic activities that constitute the university. Posted: 04 April 2002 [ Details ] Tabloid TV meets the ghost of Ern Malley Christopher Sheil places the Dole Army in a historical context. Posted: 12 March 2002 [ Details ] A time for reflection Paul Keating on Manning Clark, globalisation, reactionary Australia, the attack on Australia's institutions, relations with the US, and the need for contemplation and introspection in the Age of Distraction. Posted: 08 March 2002 [ Details ] My better nature Orthodox contemporary economics is based on the assumption that people always behave self-interestedly. Drawing on his Left Darwinism, Peter Singer observes that in reality "we are often moved by motives other than self-interest", and he explains why "there is nothing in evolutionary psychology that would lead us to expect otherwise". Posted: 04 March 2002 [ Details ] Salting the earth The Prime Minister has made dealing with Australia’s salinity problem one of the top priorities on his government’s third term agenda. For those of us concerned about Australia’s landscape and its human and ecological communities, the elevation of salinity is welcome, says Quentin Beresford, but the government's commitment is inadequate Posted: 01 March 2002 [ Details ] Financing international development From the devastation of Afghanistan, through to the financial crisis that has beset Argentina; from the reality that over half of humanity lives on less than $2 a day, through to the experience of increasing global interdependence: financing international development is a crucial issue. In this paper, John Langmore details the significance of the first International Conference on Financing Development to be held in Mexico this March. Posted: 12 February 2002 [ Details ] Relaxed & dumbing down If we truly wanted to stem the flow of asylum seekers, says Elizabeth Evatt in this article, should we not think globally? Should we not think about what Australia could do to prevent human rights abuses in the countries of origin and how we could do more to ensure basic standards of living in those countries? If we were to do that, we might understand that the world needs to work towards an effective and meaningful international system of human rights and that this must be necessarily linked to a fair and equitable global economic and financial system. Posted: 26 January 2002 [ Details ] "Temper democratic: Bias Australian" In the inaugural overland lecture at the Melbourne Trades Hall, Stuart Macintyre finds a Labor Party that needs less surrender to binding orthodoxy, more improvisation and, sorely, a democratic temper. Posted: 19 January 2002 [ Details ] Patrick Troy looks into water's future Patrick Troy looks deeply into the future of our water in the summer 2001-2002 issue of Dissent. He finds that the 'big engineering' approach to demand, which has come down to us with few embellishments from the 19th century, is now in serious trouble on all fronts. Posted: 02 January 2002 [ Details ] The boundaryless cluster Over the past decade, Ireland has experienced the fastest growth rate of output and employment of any country in the OECD, with annual average growth rates of 8 per cent and the number of jobs across the economy increasing by nearly 50 per cent between 1990 and 2000. In this paper, Roy Green and his colleagues find that the evolution of Ireland's information and communications technology sector has been driven not only by market forces, but also by the conscious design and implementation of public policy in the context of EU framework and cohesion programmes and, over the last decade, social partnership. Posted: 13 December 2001 [ Details ] States of mind: Australia & New Zealand Stuart Macintyre on federation and the centenary of federation in Australia and New Zealand, and unfinished business. Meanwhile, Phil Somerville finds he's moderately fond of Australia. Posted: 29 November 2001 [ Details ] The shrinking society Now that the moral majority is in power, observes Ghassan Hage, it has been shown to be clearly less moral than it initially claimed and, instead, we have a moral minority in opposition. It argues that, under John Howard, ethics and morality have been thrown out the window. Posted: 16 November 2001 [ Details ] Globalisation and democracy This is the transcript of the lecture John Ralston Saul delivered in the Clancy Auditorium at the University of New South Wales in Sydney in January 1999, co-sponsored by the Evatt Foundation and broadcast on ABC TV. Posted: 01 November 2001 [ Details ]
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