The current debate concerning the merits or otherwise of an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is being shifted by the opposition leader Tony Abbott’s focus on how to reduce carbon output per se.  It is interesting that Mr. Abbott has used the term ‘direct action’ in facilitating this outcome.  ‘Direct Action’ is a Marxist concept concerned [...]

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The following is the text of a speech was delivered by the Chairman of the Australian Monarchist League (AML) Mr. Philip Benwell (MBE).  The speech was entitled ‘Crown and Federation’ was delivered to the Bayside Monarchists Group at the Hampton [...]

By David Bennett
Social Action Australia derives its legitimacy as a proponent of social democracy from the 1937 ALP Victorian motion authorizing the establishment of the ALP Industrial Groups.  For all the myriad of political changes which have occurred since the 1930s, it cannot be said that the struggle for social democracy within the ALP has been [...]

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 [...]