Between stimulus & austerity
by John Ralston Saul | Sep 12, 2013
Recovering the ability for critical thoughtSince 2008 the people of Spain, of Europe, the United States, and increasingly the world, have been struggling to deal with a collapse...
Injustice within the law
by Julian Burnside | Aug 15, 2013
How many people understand confidently what justice is? Lawyers don’t receive any real training in justice, so far as I am aware. This is a pity, because it is a lawyer’s job to...
The economy in transition
by Kevin Rudd | Aug 15, 2013
I am, without apology, an optimist about our nation’s future. Our national strengths are formidable. Our weaknesses, compared with the rest of the world, are few. And, if our...
Beginning in fear to end in failure
by John Faulkner | Aug 15, 2012
The price to our democracy of the politics of distrustSamuel Taylor Coleridge remarked, some two centuries ago, on the tendency for politics that begin in fear to end in either...
Very serious people
by Doug Cameron | Aug 7, 2012
The GFC, the mining industry & economic policyI come here with a healthy scepticism towards conventional, neo-classical or neo-liberal economics. I don't have any faith in...
Understanding government debt
by Frank Stillwell | Dec 1, 2011
1. Any government can choose to go into debt. It may do so as part of a strategy of offsetting short-term economic recession. Or it may incur debt to finance more long-...
What would Evatt do?
by George Williams | Dec 1, 2011
The threat from terrorismIt is a pleasure to be here for a number of reasons. It is an honour to have been introduced by Bob Debus. The failure to replenish Labor’s State ranks...
Reviving the strike
by Chris White | Dec 1, 2011
Joe Burns has a stimulating analysis and conclusion in his new book Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America (Ig Publishing,...
Nuclear power & public health
by Peter Karamoskos | Dec 1, 2011
... there is a linear dose-response relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and the development of solid cancers in humans. It is unlikely that there is a threshold...
Fukushima & beyond
by Peter Karamoskos | Dec 1, 2011
What now for nuclear power & safety?To many, nuclear energy looks to be a relatively clean and logical choice in an era of increasing resource scarcity. Yet the record...