by Bradon Ellem | Sep 27, 2017 | Papers
The Pilbara and the remaking of Australian industrial relationsFor all its physical isolation, the Pilbara has become central to the Australian economy and imagination. Even with the heat out of the mining boom, the Pilbara remains a media staple, with an obsessive...
by Bill Shorten | Sep 27, 2017 | Papers
The theme that you’ve chosen for this gathering is ‘an uncertain world’. We live in an uncertain world. We live in uncertain times—yes we do, we most certainly do. But to varying degrees, we always have. I suppose that if you were a young Australian in the...
by Daniel T. Rodgers | Jul 17, 2017 | Papers
Are we on the brink of a new constellation of social ideas and imagination? Daniel T. Rodgers discusses his award-winning Age of Fracture with Christopher Sheil. Age of Fracture: the book CS: Age of Fracture is an unusual title in having no article or subtitle. The...
by Frank Bongiorno | Jul 17, 2017 | Papers
Australia and the global eighties It is a mark of the limiting character of a purely national perspective that it has been so rarely noticed that two English-speaking democracies of the 1980s each had a former trade union official as its national leader. Bob...
by Barry Jones | Apr 8, 2014 | Issue 1, Papers, Volume 13
How equality fell off the political agenda in AustraliaI 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...
by Shadia B. Drury | Sep 29, 2003 | Papers
Leo Strauss and the neoconservativesThere is a growing awareness that a reclusive German American philosopher is the inspiration behind the reigning neoconservative ideology of the Republican Party. Leo Strauss has long been a cult figure within the North American...
