John Quiggin | Gillard’s Labor Has Lost Its Heritage Wayne Swan’s Budget speech opened with a commendation of ‘this Labor budget’ and closed with an invocation of the
John Menadue | Trampling on Human Rights is Expensive Asylum seekers continue to suffer because of poll driven policies and their fate remains an enormous political problem for Australia. John
James Arvanitakis & Alex Surace | The Disease that Ate the Budget Wayne Swan’s fourth budget can be commended for beginning to address upper-class welfare and ending unnecessary tax cuts. However, Australia
Eva Cox | Making a Society More Fragile The primary and secondary purpose of Gillard’s first budget as PM appears to be economic growth for its own sake.
Ian McAuley | A Glimmer of Vision to a Close Horizon Is the surplus fetish distracting the Government from the real economic challenges? Ian McAuley finds glimpses of Labor values in
Jennifer Doggett | A Healthy Start, but it’s Complicated The new budget might seem to be groundbreaking, but what does it really mean for health? Jennifer Doggett cuts through
James Whelan & Jennifer Doggett | Bean Counting is Compromising our Public Services Can arbitrary cuts under the guise of efficiency deliver a better public service? James Whelan & Jennifer Doggett take a
Tim Hamilton | Costing us the house: Reforming policy for affordability In 2007 Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Western Sydney, Steve Keen, wrote a paper for
John Menadue | Presentation at 11th National Rural Health Conference CPD’s John Menadue was recently invited to speak at the 11th National Rural Health Conference, held in Perth in March 2011.
