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The ALP has historically been committed to government intervention in the free market to promote a fairer distribution of income. However, since Hawke and Keating, the ALP moved towards a free market agenda focusing on the alleviation of poverty rather than structural change.
David Ferris on the mysteries of the global economy.
Churches today run into trouble on gender and sexuality. Public discussion reveals passionately held differences within churches and between churches, and culture.
Before the Budget, Mr Howard defended tax cuts for wealthy Australians. He said that excellence should be rewarded. Where does excellence begin, and what kind should be rewarded.
Despite some gains, no one can really question that, as a group, women have been and still are discriminated against by the mere fact of being women.
Andy Blunden examines proposals to target poverty and exclusion.
Margaret Coffey watches as Australia welcomes Sudanese refugees.
Warning signs for the Whitlam Government were there in 1974, with an ailing economy, a political storm in the Senate, sliding popularity and a scandal unfolding in secret.
Good old Kim Beazley has now been Leader of the Opposition again for six months. He gave a great speech after the Budget, even if he, and his advisers, made a complete mess of their tactics in opposing the Government’s tax cuts.
The largesse in the Budget shouldn’t have proven a surprise, even if conventional wisdom is that budgets following elections are the ones in which governments make tough decisions.
The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.
Peter Pierce reviews The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume Three, edited by Paul Hetherington.
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