Allen Myers

  • Conflicting signals on Australian economy

    Where is the Australian economy headed? Different economic indicators have given differing indications in the past fortnight. The National Australia Bank Business Survey for June found that "business conditions in the non-farm

  • ABC screens anti-environmental fantasy

    Anybody inclined to believe the federal government's complaints about the ABC being "left wing" would have been quickly brought back to reality by tuning in to the first part of the Against Nature series, screened on July 21. The

  • Give till it hurts

    How much did you contribute, as pure gift, to business last year? The exact answer depends on where you live, but wherever you live, it was a substantial amount. You don't remember a business person, dressed in rags, knocking on your

  • The rule of law

    The rule of law"We will obey the law. Will the MUA obey the law by withdrawing its pickets from the docks in Sydney and Melbourne?" Words to this effect were part of the standard response of Patrick Stevedores and its partners in

  • Pilger launches new book

    SYDNEY — Well over 200 people crammed into Gleebooks on the evening of May 12 to hear John Pilger read from his new book, Hidden Agendas, and to answer questions posed by ABC journalist Quentin Dempster. The discussion, like the

  • World's best practice

    The PM looked solemn. "It's time — much as I dislike that phrase — but it is clearly time to do the duty which our responsibility demands of us." He looked around the table at the seated businessmen, most of whom evaded his gaze.

  • Who are Reith's next targets?

    As part of its effort to smash the MUA, the government has claimed that the situation on the docks is exceptional. With absurd stories about wharfies making huge salaries for doing nothing, it tries to convince workers in other

  • Telstra privatisation worries the bush — and it should

    Telstra privatisation worries the bush — and it shouldPrime Minister John Howard's decision to make the privatisation of the remaining two-thirds of Telstra an issue in the next federal election is clearly worrying Coalition,

  • Real unemployment rate more than double

    The real unemployment rate in Australia is probably more than double the official rate of 8.1%, according to figures from an Australian Bureau of Statistics study announced on March 9. The survey "Persons Not in the Labour Force",

  • Telstra privatisation: a giant give-away

    Telstra privatisation: a giant give-awayThe Howard government's plan to privatise the publicly owned two-thirds of Telstra was presented by the prime minister as intended to make Australia "the greatest share-owning democracy in

  • The stolen children and the white knight of ignorance

    "The defence of ignorance is no longer available. Individual Australians are not responsible for the actions of others. But if Australians fail to respond to what you now know, that is another thing", said Gatjil Djerrkura, the

  • Australia starting to feel the Asian slump

    "If you look at the broad sweep ... you see a steady, inexorable strengthening of the foundations of the Australian economy and an economy that is standing up very well to the turmoil that is occurring in our part of the world." The