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Publications
Papers
- A Trojan horse?
The US trade agreement may corrupt Australia's pharmaceuticals policy, argues John Merson.
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- A completely misleading description
The 'free trade' agreement isn't, explains John Quiggin.
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- A history lesson on Iraq
Phillip Knightley recalls earlier 'regime changes'.
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- A permanent casualty
Phillip Knightley assesses the state of his craft.
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- Achieving equality of opportunity
Fred Argy discusses his new book.
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- An international decent work strategy
John Langmore confronts the task of creating jobs in the era of globalisation.
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- Australian television content
The AUSFTA makes it an endangered species, explains Greg Duffy.
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- Behind the neo-con curtain
Norman Madarasz rescues Plato from the neo-cons
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- Bond traders take on Costello
Philip Baker backgrounds the Australian government's extraordinary debt policy.
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- Broadband versus narrowband economics
"Mainstream economics" has retreated to fantasy, argues Edward Fullbrook.
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- Different dimensions of debt
Frank Stilwell presents the big picture.
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- East is East and West is Best
Craig Emerson on trade, the GATS & Asia-Australia relations.
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- Embracing multilateralism
International law is crucial in an interconnected world, argues Brendan Lim.
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- Farewell Hitch
George Scialabba essays eloquently on Christopher Hitchens' astonishing loss of moral and intellectual balance.
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- 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.
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- How to stop America
The Chartist movement of the 21st century.
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- In the era of perpetual war
Does the concept of 'globalisation' hide more than it reveals, asks Christopher Sheil.
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- In the right corner ...
Who's winning modernity's cultural war?
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- Intellectuals, democracy and empire
Robert Blecher traces imperialism's intellectual boosters.
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- Iraq & the war on terrorism
Al Gore rejects the Bush Doctrine.
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- Jessie Street & human rights
Elizabeth Evatt reviews progress in human rights in memory of Jessie Street.
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- John Kenneth Galbraith: 1908-2006
Evan Jones reflects on the great economist.
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- 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".
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- Ned Ludd, Adam Smith & Fred Argy
Hugh Stretton closes the Evatt Breakfast Seminar on equality.
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- Out of the rubble
Paul McGeough's final report from Baghdad.
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- Peace building in West Papua
Michela Noonan reports on the West Papua Project.
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- Poverty and national security
Is national security possible without real action to eliminate poverty ?
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- 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.
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- Remembering the Universal Declaration
Shut the detention centres down, says Mary Gaudron.
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- Saving America
Shadia Drury gets to the bottom of neoconservatism.
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- Saving globalization
Jay Mandle argues that political and economic activism can help the poor in all countries.
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- Somebody else's civil war
Why does Islamic extremism want to provoke the US, asks Michael Scott Doran.
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- 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.
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- Ten devils in the detail
Patricia Ranald and Louise Southalan explain the finer points of the text of the Australia US Free Trade Agreement
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- The ALP in an international perspective
Labor should broaden its horizons, argues Andrew Scott.
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- The European Lecture
Will Hutton praises the value of European interdependence.
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- The FTA and the PBS
Peter Drahos and his colleagues separate fact from fiction.
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- 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.
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- The coming war with Iraq
Michael Klare assesses the price of war.
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- The enduring significance of John Rawls
Martha Nussbaum assesses the work of the late, great philosopher.
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- The hard road to fascism
Today’s anti-liberal revolt looks a lot like 1920s Europe, argues Abbott Gleason.
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- The imperative to aid development
John Langmore reminds us that poverty is a much more pervasive threat than terrorism.
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- 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.
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- The state of political economy
Alternative voices must be heard, maintains Frank Stilwell.
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- Towards the precipice
Robert Brenner continues his remarkable history of the postwar world economy.
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- Undermining our best chance
Kevin Rudd places Australia's International Criminal Court fiasco in context.
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- Understanding religious fundamentalism
More responsibility is needed, says Randa Abdel-Fattah.
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- Understanding religious fundamentalism
There is no mystery about this trouble, explains Ray Richmond.
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- 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?
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- What role for Telstra?
A Telstra break-up would be against the national interest, argues Ros Eason
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- Why bother about economic inequality?
Frank Stilwell introduces our Breakfast Seminar on equality.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- An endangered species
A campaign for a national Human Rights Act should be initiated now, argues Neville Wran.
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- Commonwealth Debt Management Review
The Evatt Foundation's submission on public debt policy.
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- Divisions over public debt
There is no financial restraint on government spending, argues William Mitchell.
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- Eating yourself
Michael Pusey looks at the dark side.
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- Intolerance, terrorism & fear
Our democracy is not functioning as it should, observes Richard Woolcott.
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- Nuclear energy & greenhouse
Is nuclear energy a possible solution to the greenhouse problem?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Politics & the English Language
The times dictate republishing this classic essay.
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- Power Politics
New book calls for royal commission into SA power, outlines John Spoehr.
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- Public-private partnerships
Christopher Sheil reality checks public-private partnerships.
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- Rhetoric and reality in the New Tasmania
At least to some extent, it's the culture, stupid, says Stewart Prins.
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- 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
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- Should Australia have a Bill of Rights?
Recent history causes Ron Dyer to change his mind.
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- The maintenance of institutional values
The Chief Justice of New South Wales maintains his objections to the so-called 'new managerialism'.
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- The myths of PPPs
The PPP model is often inappropriate, poorly understood and expensive, explain Graham Larcombe and Paul Fitzgerald.
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- 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.
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- ‘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.
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- "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.
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- 'White Slaves' & White Australia
Raelene Frances looks at Australia through the trade in sex workers.
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- An inextricable link
New strategies and tactics are needed, says Geoff Derrick.
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- Australia is unique, unfortunately
Abandon the reactive approach to protecting human rights, says George Williams.
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- Beyond industrial relations
How new is WorkChoices, asks Bradon Ellem.
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- China’s new labour law
China moves beyond WorkChoices, reports Chris White.
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- Curtailing worker rights
The workplace could soon resemble TV's "Survivor" program, argues Warwick McDonald.
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- Declining trade union membership
Geoffrey Beckman argues that anti-union laws are the primary cause.
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- Economic challenges & WorkChoices
There is another way, explains Greg Combet.
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- Ethics, politics & mutual obligation
Jeremy Moss debunks 'mutual obligation'.
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- Farewell to the 'fair go'
Australian egalitarianism is in the gun, explains Belinda Probert.
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- Fighting for our values
The Secretary's address to the ACTU Congress.
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- From Deakin to Howard
Bob Hawke excoriates John Howard's industrial relations scheme.
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- Future of work
Policy background paper.
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- Generations, social change & writing
Rebecca Huntley reflects on The World According to Y.
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- Income inequality & health
You might die waiting, argues John Wicks.
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- Industrial relations
Greg Combet addresses the press club on Howard's labour agenda.
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- Inside the tent
Chris White assesses Australia's labour law against international standards.
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- International support needed
The ACTU President addresses the ILO.
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- Is zero government debt desirable?
Tony Aspromourgos defines the issues.
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- Labor & the future
Sol Encel measures the abyss.
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- Let's get to it!
The President's address to the ACTU Congress.
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- 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.
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- One last time along the Hungry Mile
Tas Bull dedicated his life to those struggling for social justice, sums Rowan Cahill.
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- Organising China's Wal-Mart
Chris White finds reason for optimism in China.
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- PPPs in South Australia
It's the third wave of privatisation, says John Spoehr.
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- Shoulder to shoulder
This is the fight of my life, pledges Kim Beazley.
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- Social democracy & consumer capitalism
Clive Hamilton's controversial address to the national left.
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- Solidarity forever
Bob Hawke salutes Australia's peak union council
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- Tabloid TV meets the ghost of Ern Malley
Christopher Sheil places the Dole Army in a historical context.
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- The Contract Regulation Club
The assault on Australia's workers is riddled with self-serving doublethink, explains Braham Dabscheck.
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- The Fabian Society & the Labor tradition
Labor's Simon Crean talks about his values and beliefs.
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- The industrial relations 'reforms'
Australia’s leading industrial relations researchers examine Howard's new regime.
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- The public good & public services
David Hayward assesses community attitudes to privatisation.
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- The right to politically strike?
Chris White examines the arguments about direct action.
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- The social democratic agenda
Bring the trade union movement closer, argues Mark Buttigieg.
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- The trouble with PPPs
Christopher Sheil critiques public-private partnerships (PPPs).
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- The work/life collision
We must again find our own approaches to care for our own time and place, argues Barbara Pocock.
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- There are other ways
Retire the '5 per cent Club', argues ACTU President, Sharan Burrow.
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- There is a better, fairer way
Greg Combet lays out his vision at the National Press Club.
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- Trade union organising & labour history
Unions have their destiny in their hands, argue Rae Cooper & Greg Patmore.
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- What women want
Australia needs a policy sea change argues Carmen Lawrence.
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- Where have all the women gone?
Time to turn the clock forward, argues Anne Summers
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- Why manufacturing matters
George Campbell discusses policy for manufacturing industry.
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