Herbert vere evatt biography of barack obama
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Liberty, fraternity and what was that other word?
How equality fell off the political agenda in Australia
Barry Jones
I was delighted to accept an invitation to join you for this fundraiser for the Evatt Foundation. As a schoolboy, I was inspired by Herbert Vere Evatt when he was Australia’s Minister for External Affairs and Attorney-General, with his emphasis on universal values rather than national, regional or municipal ones. I will never forget an address he gave at the Assembly Hall in Melbourne in February , some days after Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. He argued eloquently for creating a universal community of interest in finding non-violent solutions to problems, and that in the face of human tragedy there are no national boundaries: that shared grief is a human bonding factor.
No Australian politician – until Gough Whitlam – has had such a global sweep. However, Evatt’s internationalism was not popular domestically. He was subject to constant abuse
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President's Report
Christopher Sheil
I am pleased to report that the Evatt Foundation was active throughout the past year in pursuit of the highest ideals of the labour movement. This year, and over the past three years, Evatt’s main thrust has been toward raising consciousness of growing economic inequality.
It will be recalled that Evatt’s focus on economic inequality arose from discussion at the AGM. The original idea was to draw some boundaries around what we anticipated would be the direction of the then freshly elected Abbott LNP government. In this, Evatt anticipated rising international concern over the issue, and we soon found ourselves in company with major world figures such as President Obama and Pope Francis, among many others, including surprising allies such as the International Monetary Fund and the OECD. For ease of reference, I've attached a potted history of the rising interest in—and some of the more manifest effects of—increasing economi
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Leading from the Bench: Women Jurists as Role Models
Remarks of the Hon. Marilyn Warren AC, Chief Justice of Victoria on the occasion of American Chamber of Commerce in Australia 'Women in Leadership' Breakfast at Crown, Melbourne.
Pr'cis : Women currently account for about one third of the Australian judiciary; an extraordinary achievement in a relatively short time. This figure fryst vatten echoed in the United States. The Hon. ledare Justice Marilyn Warren AC, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, celebrates the women who paved the way for judicial equality and who continue to act as role models and inspire others to continue the journey.
Introduction
Women are a relatively recent addition to the practice of law in Australia. It was just over a century ago in that Australia saw its first female lag graduate, Ada Evans. [1] Legend has it that her enrolment at the Sydney lag School was aided bygd a small stroke of good fortune or, rather, good synkronisering. The Dean of lag at