Tristan Ewins

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Tristan Ewins is a teacher, freelance writer and grassroots member of the Australian Labor Party.

Tristan Ewins's contributions:

Reinvigorating Civics and Citizenship Education

Tristan Ewins thinks that civics education can go much further than drumming the origins of Australia Day into students’ minds - it can be a gateway to active citizenship and the renewal of our democracy.

Democratic Renewal

Public Private Partnerships no 'magic pudding'

Tristan Ewins dissects the failings of PPPs and considers some possible alternatives.

Real world economics

Spend or cut: ALP can't have it both ways

Tristan Ewins wonders how an ALP government could afford to fund its ‘nation building’ programs if Kim Beazley’s promised tax cuts for ‘middle Australia’ go ahead. Ewins proposes an alternative agenda for tax reform to fund an expansion of Australia’s ‘social wage’.