Society & Culture
Australian workers are being shortchanged $95.8 billion a year in unpaid overtime
According to new research, if Australian workers were paid for the hours of overtime they currently do for free, they would be more than $300 a fortnight better off
Bob Brown: when the law is wrong you have a duty to stand up against it
Dr Brown discusses crackdowns on environmental protestors, his multiple arrests, and the importance of civil disobedience.
Successful defiance is a front-foot thing. It is active, not passive.
Optimism in the face of overwhelming odds may seem misguided – but the course of human history remains in our collective hands, and change is driven not by defeatism, but by intelligent, courageous, compassionate defiance of the prevailing rules.
Broken university system is letting Australians down
Australian universities are facing calls for greater scrutiny and to implement standardised reporting on their financials results as more institutions cry poor while continuing to bank large surpluses.
