Jul-Aug 2008

An Evatt Foundation Breakfast Seminar

Event date:	08 July 2003
Location:	Macquarie Room, Quality Hotel (formerly the Southern Cross Hotel), Cnr Goulburn and Elizabeth Streets Sydney, opposite the Goulburn Street Parking Station, and a short stroll from both Central and Museum railway stations.
Time:	Tuesday 8 July 2003
Cost:	Cost: $14 (includes breakfast)

Australia's retreat from egalitarianism

Australia is in the throes of a major re-evaluation of its egalitarian values. Australians are steadily turning their backs on many of the social norms they once considered untouchable. In his new book, Where to from here? Australian Equalitarianism Under Threat (Allen & Unwin), Fred Argy considers the disturbing changes, which have led to less genuine equality of opportunity than a quarter of a century ago. Yet Australia has never been wealthier. To discuss the issues raised by Where to from here? Australian Equalitarianism Under Threat, the Evatt Foundation proudly presents three of Australia's most distinguished economists:

Professor Frank Stilwell (chair)
Frank Stilwell is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, the editor of the Journal of Australian Political Economy, and a member of the Evatt Foundation's Executive Committee. His most recent book is Changing Track: A New Political Direction for Australia (Pluto Press: 2000).

Fred Argy
Fred Argy has advised Australian governments from Menzies to Keating, has been awarded an OBE and AM for his services to economic planning, and is the author of Australia at the Crossroads: Radical Free Market or a Progressive Liberalism? (Allen & Unwin: 1998).

Professor Hugh Stretton
Hugh Stretton is one of Australia's most gifted and influential public intellectuals. Historian, economist and thinker, his major books include The Political Sciences: General Principles of Selection in Social Science and History (1969), Ideas for Australian Cities (1970), Capitalism, Socialism and the Environment (1976), and Economics: A New Introduction (1999).

Timing: Breakfast will be served from 7.30 am, the seminar will commence promptly at 8.00 am and finish on the dot of 9.00 am.

Bookings: Please RSVP to the Evatt Foundation by: Mail: Evatt Foundation, University of NSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052; Telephone: 9385 2966; Fax: 9385 2967; or Email: evatt@unsw.edu.au

For more information, visit the Evatt Foundation's website: http://evatt.labor.net.au/

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