Truth & treaties: the ongoing legacy of the Uluru statement.
Henry Reynolds. 30 March 2021. The most shameful day in Malcolm Turnbull’s tenure as Australia’s Prime Minister was 27 October 2017. It was the...
Rising house prices put at risk the economic stability of the nation.
Hal Pawson and Bill Randolph. 30 March 2021. Housing policies are contributing to stagnating economic growth and putting at risk the economic stability of...
States housed 40,000 people for the Covid emergency. Now rough sleeper numbers are back on the up.
Hal Pawson UNSW. Chris Martin UNSW. Australian governments acted to protect homeless people from COVID-19 in 2020 on an even larger scale than previously...
Low wage, low growth: Porter’s industrial relations bill is only good in parts.
Andrew Stewart. Adriana Orifici Monash University. Joellen Riley Munton University of Technology Sydney. Shae McCrystal University of Sydney. Tess Hardy The University of Melbourne....
Robots, ethics, & the future of jobs by Sean McDonagh.
Reviewed by Denis Blackledge SJ. 5 March 2021 This is a timely, challenging, stimulating, knowledgeable, and, yes, frightening volume by a well-known author who...
How good is Morrison’s Australia? Going backwards and being left behind.
Noel Turnbull. 5 March 2021 After seven years of a Coalition government, household debt is the second highest of 43 countries; we ranked third...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Some signs of hope.
8 February 202 It has become a cliché : “She/he is a glass-half-full sort of person”, playing out as we enter 2021 after the...
Coalition’s political games don’t mix well with existential threat.
Ian Chubb. 8 February 2021 We could secure a spectacular future for ourselves and help the planet. Instead the federal government dodges the hard...
Peter Whiting Editorial. Equality in our society & urgent action on climate change should be priorities for Australian governments.
The latest ACOSS/UNSW report on Poverty in Australia, released this year, makes for sobering reading. By the measures used in the report, over 3...
Editorial. Peter Whiting. A world of uncertainty after Covid-19.
1 November 2020. As this newsletter is published, voting in the US elections is under way, with commentators speculating from the polls that Biden...
John Menadue. LobbyLand: the scourge of powerful special interests & lobbyists.
1 November 2020 A major reason for the loss of trust in governments and parliaments is the way powerful special interests with their lobbyists...