Articles by Eva Cox

This was the tax forum where the fairness agenda was lost, at least from the government side.

It appears social and gender equity will be well down the tax forum agenda.

The ABS has again produced data that shows women are lagging badly behind men in one of the pillars of our retirement income. This is because our highly subsidised superannuation system is based on pre-retirement earnings.

One of the failures of feminism has been our inability to change the culture of most workplaces.

Today the Productivity Commission releases its latest report on Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, which shows only 13 of 45 measures showed any improvement and seven went backwards.

As many women’s groups gear up for the annual unequal payday commiseration, more statistics emerge that suggest the gap may be going backwards, or, at best, is stuck.

A new research report, which has sought the views of more than 180 women in the NT, raises questions about income management’s level of support or perceptions of benefit.

Much of the debate over the UK riots has focused on the particulars of today and the recent past. They miss the wider implications of the effect of changes to the public ethos over the past few decades.

A new consultation process on more intervention proposals does not please the many critics of the current version’s costly failures.

It is four years this month since the Mal Brough emergency intervention in the NT and today the PM goes to Alice Springs to see the “progress” supposedly being made.

The federal budget uses social stereotyping to show the government as tough.

The whole Women’s Budget statement is a paean of praise for the virtues of hard work and economic participation, like so much of the rest of the budget

This is not a Labor government budget in any serious sense. It does not take from the rich, except in very minor ways, and its redistributive tendencies are almost reversed.

With the federal budget in the next week, there is the usual jockeying for headlines by various groups.

The over-publicised tweet by Larissa Behrendt needs to be seen as part of a wider issue.

‘Labor by name and Labour by nature’ may be a catchy title but it does little for those society excludes and then rejects. Julia Gillard ignores the evidence the problem with unemployment is as much a demand side problem as the fault of the unemployed.

Taxation is an essential part of our support for the public sphere.

Beware the welfare policy areas when we get bi-partisanship.

Look carefully at who is pushing for the rise in super contributions to 12%. The clear beneficiaries will be the finance industry, union funds and high income males.

Women still have a long way to go for equality and we need to get moving because there are serious issues that cannot be solved by economic modelling of independent self-interested masculinity equations.

It seems neither major party leader put a sufficient priority on the WEL NSW event to give them something new to announce.

The intervention has failed because of what was done and the way it was done, and it did not consult or engage with local people or, in many cases, address their problems.

The federal government is adding another serious question to its social and financial policy competence by informing the public that it is proceeding with the promised evaluation of the New Income Management Program.

The Australia Post decision-making process for closing offices is primarily commercial so I am suggesting an option for reform.