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Aged Care
Few issues occupy the minds of baby boomers more than ageing. The concern is not just with our own mortality and retirement, but also about what to...
An Enterprising Struggle: the Capacity to Manage Index
In the mid-1980s, considerable community debate began on a reform agenda for the Australian industrial relations system. A central agreed principle...
Melbourne's Private Transport Move Just the Ticket
Public transport is seldom analysed with the same detachment seen with other service industries. Its shortcomings have a high public profile and...
Victorian Libs must not give in to expediency
Probably no set of ideas will ever completely dominate an Australian political party, still less a government. Nor will any victory last forever....
The Big Dry ... Our Saviour
Australia is today's true miracle economy. In the past decade, our economy has gone from strength to strength. After weathering the 1997-98 Asian...
Unions Celebrate Their Past Amid Questions Over Their Future
Any business operating for 75 years deserves to be proud of achieving that milestone. And as a holder of this badge of longevity the ACTU can...
Bracks' Luck Will Be a Test
Steve Bracks is a lucky politician, but has he worked hard enough to sustain his luck? Arguable not, and he will be sorely tested if he wins...
Green Power Riddled by Perilous Politics and Specious Economics
The politics of energy is a heady brew. Two weeks ago, Candy Broad, the Energy Minister, announced measures designed to suppress electricity price...
Bracks Fails the IR Test
The Bracks Government is facing an economic and electoral disaster in Melton. It walked the Japanese firm - Saizeriya - into inter-union battle and...
Paper 13 Challenges Labour Law
Ask almost anyone involved in the Australian construction industry what outcome they expect from the Cole Royal Commission and they will reply...