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Trade Unions – Industrial Relations

The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
By 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 Issues
Technological advancement is to be welcomed but, as the British author and social democratic thinker George Orwell warned in his ...

Women’s Issues

Equality through Diversity
Australian 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 Federation
The 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 Equalizer
Education 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 Equity
If 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 Costello
The 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 ...