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Social Action’s Current Non-Partisan Stance
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Trade Unions – Industrial Relations
The More Things Change the More They Stay the SameBy David Bennett The Australian union movement has been at the core of the nation's socio-political development since the Great Strikes of ...
Bio-Ethical Issues
Bioethical Issues are Human Rights IssuesTechnological advancement is to be welcomed but, as the British author and social democratic thinker George Orwell warned in his ...
Women’s Issues
Equality through DiversityAustralian Groupers in trade unions and activists within the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) vigorously fought for women's rights. The successes ...
Federal-State Relations
Crown and FederationThe following is the text of a speech was delivered by the Chairman of the ...
Decentralization Leads to Mutual Gain
A fundamental component of Catholic social teachings which influenced the actions of ALP Industrial Groups was the principle of decentralization. ...
The Environment
Jared Diamond on Australia’s Sustainable Population.Perhaps the single most astonishing, ridiculously contradictory set of public policies we face, is the left hand of government promoting ...
Give the Environment the Benefit of the Doubt
For many in Australia, the most pressing issue is that of climate change in relation to global warming. The focus ...
Education Policy
Education - The Great EqualizerEducation should always be a central focus in relation to social democratic formation because access to education is a great ...
Economic Policy
No Economic Gain Without Social EquityIf politics is not an exact science then, from a social democratic viewpoint, economics should similarly not be prescriptive. This ...
ALP Matters and Contemporary Political Developments
A Comparison – Menzies and CostelloThe June 2009 announcement by Peter Costello that he would not re-nominate for his seat of Higgins apparently signifies the ...
Keeping Alive The Spirit of 1937
By David Bennett Social Action Australia derives its legitimacy as a proponent of social democracy from the 1937 ALP Victorian motion authorizing ...