by Lev Lafayette  (picture above) The fact that communities have always had policies concerning the movement of people into the lands held by that community should surprise nobody with even a modicum of understanding of anthropology and history. True,...

above: the author, Australian economist John Quiggin  (first published Thursday 5 November 2009 – reproduced with the permission of the author) Bad arguments can be used to defend good ideas. But when the arguments used to defend a policy proposal...

by an Anonymous author - passed on by the Queensland Electrical Trades Union (ETU) Anna Bligh and Andrew Fraser have a Plan for Queensland.  Unfortunately, it is the wrong plan.  And it has not been subject to the critical examination that it...

Twenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin wall, one of the shameful symbols of the cold war and the dangerous division of the world into opposing blocks and spheres of influence. Today we can revisit the events of those times and take stock...

nb:this article concerns the socialist tradition of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) dating back to the 1920s and 1930s; the issues should be of interest to a broad audience... by Geoff Drechsler Sometimes it seems as if Labor’s socialist past is...