Chris White Online

A car filled with drums of petrol is driven at high speed into an office building, setting it on fire. By sheer luck there were no lives lost. For the staff who walk in a daze around the burnt-out shell of their workplace the next morning it is a scene reminiscent of a Baghdad bombing. [...]

Project for a 21st Century Democratic Ecological Socialism What follows is an essay developed collaboratively by SEARCH foundation members. SEARCH stands for ‘Social Education and Research Concerning Humanity’. Australians together with the whole global community are faced with very big challenges. We need a new approach that looks for the common good rather than narrow [...]

I attended the Canberra Labour History Society symposium on 8 May on Menzies’ CPA Dissolution Bill. One paper by George Williams on ‘the Communist Party Dissolution Bill and its aftermath’ broadcast tonight on Big Ideas, ABC Radio National, 6:10pm, Thursday 27 May 2010. Prof Williams made some telling points about how some of the more [...]

The mining industry’s lobby group claim that their industry already pays the highest tax rate in Australia. But the Henry Tax Review includes estimates that huge government concessions put the industry’s effective tax rate at just 17%–less than most of us pay.1 You’ve probably already seen the mining industry’s scare campaign against the proposed tax [...]

So you want a revolution? The government has provided funding for computers in schools but failed to invest in the human side of it, writes Kathryn Moyle. One of the major platforms the ALP took to the 2007 federal election was the digital education revolution (DER). When Labor won, overnight, the DER moved from being [...]

The Minister gives way under the collective pressure of teachers. The press – e.g. SMH 9th May celebrate the DPM’s defeat of the AEU’s ban – do not mention. as shown on this blog, either the merits of the teachers’ arguments or the fact that the DPM kept Howard’s WorkChoices repressive anti-strike regime in the [...]

The Federal Minister of Education is intolerable. Peter Curtis AEU Vic Councillor Primary Sector Personal capacity The bullying of public school teachers by the federal Minister of Education is intolerable. Minister Gillard is dividing parents, teachers and principals. Refusal to discuss our concerns over the uses of NAPLAN, and school data on the ‘My School’ [...]

Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, April 12, 2010 Noam Chomsky, the leading left-wing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. “I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a [...]

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