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Tristan Ewins

Tristan Ewins is a freelance writer, qualified teacher and social commentator based in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a long-time member of the Socialist Left of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He blogs at Left Focus.

Author's website: Left Focus


 
Election reflections
Domestic Politics - 1/09/2010 - 13 comments
Final thoughts as Australians go to the polls
Domestic Politics - 18/08/2010 - 18 comments
Abbott a threat both to fairness and prosperity
Domestic Politics - 10/08/2010 - 13 comments
The legacy of Rudd Labor - and the challenge confronting Julia Gillard
Domestic Politics - 30/06/2010 - 6 comments
The mining super-profits tax debate - an analysis
Economics - 23/06/2010 - 25 comments
The Meaning of ANZAC Day
Society - 29/04/2010 - 19 comments
'Battlelines' - what’s Tony Abbott really about?
Political Philosophy - 23/03/2010 - 13 comments
Unions and Labor: is Dean Mighell right?
Domestic Politics - 24/02/2010 - 26 comments
The Australian Nation - celebration AND criticism are the key
Society - 29/01/2010 - 18 comments
Which way forwards in response to climate change?
Environment - 18/01/2010 - 15 comments
Keeping up the stimulus
Economics - 20/10/2009 - 34 comments
Which way forward for pension reform?
Society - 25/08/2009 - 4 comments
Wages decision a ‘kick in the guts’ for the most vulnerable workers
Society - 22/07/2009 - 10 comments
After the Budget - debating our future
Economics - 2/06/2009 - 14 comments
One last plea for justice and compassion
Domestic Politics - 8/05/2009 - 15 comments
Rudd and his high-speed broadband
Domestic Politics - 21/04/2009 - 18 comments
Protecting the most vulnerable
Economics - 26/03/2009 - 13 comments
Debating the stimulus and the rights of the needy
March 2009 Feature - 12/03/2009 - 11 comments
Aged care crisis - a call for kindness and justice
February 2009 Feature - 17/02/2009 - 6 comments
Avoiding austerity - caring for our aged
February 2009 Feature - 10/02/2009 - 5 comments
National broadband: what kind of monopoly?
Economics - 13/01/2009 - 30 comments
World financial crisis - where to from here?
December 2008 Feature - 8/12/2008 - 13 comments
The burden of power and the challenge for Labor
Economics - 17/10/2008 - 10 comments
Cost of living crisis revisited
Society - 27/08/2008 - 43 comments
A revolution in the transport economy
Environment - 20/08/2008 - 15 comments
Liberal compromise and the struggle for social justice
Society - 21/05/2008 - 13 comments
Imagining ‘The Good Society’
Society - 6/05/2008 - 47 comments
Hard choices for Labor - social justice and inflation
Domestic Politics - 22/02/2008 - 48 comments
The privatisation of public space, and the democratic alternative
Political Philosophy - 6/11/2007 - 4 comments
A blueprint for real reform - it’s time
Domestic Politics - 18/10/2007 - 10 comments
Re-affirming the politics of class
Political Philosophy - 7/06/2007 - 36 comments
Right to withdraw labour is a human right
Domestic Politics - 24/04/2007 - 69 comments
Labor and the 'empty ideology' of modernisation
Domestic Politics - 5/04/2007 - 10 comments
An agenda for Labor
February 2007 Feature - 22/02/2007 - 28 comments
Public Private Partnerships no 'magic pudding'
Nation Building - 11/12/2006 - 5 comments
Tax cuts and increased spending don't add up
Domestic Politics - 23/11/2006 - 34 comments
‘Coming to the Party’ raises some difficult questions for Labor
Political Philosophy - 1/11/2006 - 22 comments
Contesting the constructs of national identity and values
September 2006 Feature - 27/09/2006 - 25 comments
Is Australia a ‘high taxing’ nation? What is the responsible answer?
May 2006 Feature - 5/05/2006 - 163 comments
Social democracy - not dead yet: a response to Clive Hamilton
Political Philosophy - 4/04/2006 - 59 comments
Book Review: Not all hope is lost for Australia's modern Labor Party
January 2004 Feature - 16/01/2004
Mark Latham's tax policy does not sit comfortably with Labor's heartland
Domestic Politics - 26/11/2003
Book Review: 'Twilight of the Elites' is as disturbing as it is important
Domestic Politics - 2/10/2003 - 1 comment
Labor’s Socialist Objective is essential to its identity and future
Domestic Politics - 26/09/2002
Giddens and Blair: liquidating social democracy
Political Philosophy - 26/03/2002
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