Australian Groupers in trade unions and activists within the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) vigorously fought for women’s rights.  The successes of the women’s movement in Australia and overseas has meant that feminism is now an accepted socio-political movement.  Therefore, the contemporary struggle to advance women’s rights does not concern the legitimacy of feminism per se [...]

Technological advancement is to be welcomed but, as the British author and social democratic thinker George Orwell warned in his famous book Nineteen Eighty Four some advances in technology come at the expense of human rights.  Technological advancement in a contemporary context can now be harnessed to destroy human life as attested to by the [...]

By David Bennett
The Australian union movement has been at the core of the nation’s socio-political development since the Great Strikes of the 1890s in the then Australian colonies.  Whether trade unionism remains viable as Australia moves toward a post-industrial society in the twenty first century remains to be seen. The fast pace of technological change is [...]