A recent study of the Australian workforce has shown that, while many have been pushed into part-time work and many job-seekers cannot find work, the main outcome of the decline of the standard working week over the past decade and a half has been a shift to longer working hours. This is a process that…
GIVING SORROW WORDS: women’s stories of post-abortion griefby Melinda Tankard Reist Duffy & SnellgroveAvailable from News Weekly Books for $17.95 plus p&h In any cultural battle, truth, or the lack of it, will strongly determine the outcome. In the battle over abortion, truth has largely been hidden. Simple truths, like abortion kills human beings, babies…
KARL MARXby Francis Wheen Fourth EstateRec. price: $49.00 Marx’s contradictions Francis Wheen convincingly demonstrates that an entire dismissal of Marx’s ideas, on the basis that communism has come and gone, is premature. Whilst Marx’s deterministic view of history is simplistic and was proven spurious even within his own lifetime, many aspects of Marx’s analysis of…
Prime Minister John Howard’s biggest problem in deciding the timing of the next election may not be the GST, but internal problems in the Liberal Party. It is no exaggeration to say the largest two state parties – New South Wales and Victoria – are in serious trouble across a number of fronts. Divided, dwindling…