Leo Hawkins

Local government in Australia and in England have little more in common than their name and tradition. The functions of local government in England, their size and relationship to the central government in Westminster means that they are more like the Australian States than local authorities here. Yet there is an almost obsessive interest in Australia with the English model and English local gove ... (read more)

Kathryn Cole’s book sets out by means of thirteen contributions to evaluate ‘two assertions about trade unions (which) are pervasive’. These are that they are very or too powerful, and that they are usually the aggressors in industrial disputes. Its conclusion is that unions are more sinned against than sinning, or, to paraphrase the words of Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited describing L ... (read more)