by Bill Shorten | May 10, 2018 | Papers
The Opposition Leader’s speech in reply to the 2018 Budget My fellow Australians, as I listened to the government’s fifth budget on Tuesday night, I knew immediately we can do better than this, the people of Australia deserve better than this and a Labor...
by Wayne Swan | May 4, 2018 | Papers
I’m going to start by breaking a rule of progressive politics devised for us by George Lakoff a decade and more ago, when he said ‘Don’t think of an elephant’. You might remember, Lakoff’s argument was that progressives were like participants in a...
by Jenny Donovan | May 4, 2018 | Papers
‘We shape our cities, and afterwards our cities shape us’, to paraphrase Winston Churchill. In this he eloquently drew a line between the built characteristics of our surroundings and the social outcomes they point towards. Winston would no doubt feel vindicated...
by Paul Lynch | May 4, 2018 | Papers
The Twentieth Man is the first novel by Tony Jones of ABC fame. It’s a pretty good yarn. It’s a thriller based on the sensational true events surrounding the presence and activities of the Ustasha, a fascist racist ultra-nationalist Croatian group in Australia. It’s a...
by Danielle Celermajer | May 4, 2018 | Papers
The sins of a nation, the ritual of apology, the work of repentance National apologies are the ritual whereby we turn back to see ourselves through the eyes of the injured other, and from this place, step into a more ethical collective identity.The twentieth century...
by Thomas Piketty | May 4, 2018 | Papers
Rising inequality & the changing structure of political conflict (Evidence from France, Britain and the US, 1948-2017) Income inequality has increased substantially in most world regions since the 1980s, albeit at different speeds (see Alvaredo et al, World...
