Imperfection's friend These have been bewildering weeks in the recent history of British democracy. Respectable women call BBC Radio 4 programmes to talk about how they would...
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Kill Khalid
by Paul McGeough | Apr 8, 2009
Mossad's failed hit and the rise of HamasOn a September morning in 1997 on the streets of Jordan's capital, Amman, Mossad agents attempted to assassinate Hamas leader, Khalid...
Democracy failure
by John Keane | Apr 8, 2009
Politics & the Great RecessionEighteen months into the deepest economic slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s, one thing is abundantly clear: the world economy is...
The financial & economic crisis
by Frank Stilwell | Mar 8, 2009
We are now facing the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression began in 1929. The crash in share market values has sent shock waves though the global economy. An...
Lockout & Bastard Boys
by Christopher Sheil | Mar 8, 2009
Review article Lockout and Bastard Boys are welcome representations of two of the 20th century's epic Australian industrial confrontations: the 1929 lockout on the northern...
Economists speak out against carbon scheme
by Evatt Foundation | Mar 8, 2009
StatementThe Australian government is to be congratulated for its decision to take part in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, the proposed Carbon...
The crisis of US hegemony
by Walden Belllow | Nov 11, 2008
The Bush II years will be remembered as the years when in order to achieve unparalleled global strategic superiority, the US ended up with the opposite outcome: erosion of its...
Fighting inflation with interest rates
by Harold Levin | Oct 8, 2008
A large part of the current excess demand driving inflation is due to the banks and other financial institutions excessively expanding credit. Should the burden of fighting...
The Building & Construction Commission
by George Williams | Aug 8, 2008
An appropriate use of public power?There is no place for the Building and Construction Commission in Australia, explains I have been asked to talk about the coercive and...
A landscape of revolutions
by Richard Flanagan | Feb 13, 2008
Colonial Tasmania, re-imagined.At a moment when Australians seem once more prepared to voyage forward, there has arrived a book for these new times. In one of those moments of...