Banks must be kept in check
by Evan Jones | Oct 10, 2008
Where is competition when we need it?The government should reject Westpac's bid to takeover St George, argues Evan Jones.Last February, Gail Kelly, long-time chief executive of...
A second Enlightenment?
by Paul Keating | Aug 9, 2008
War, peace & prosperityA prestigious American think tank told us recently that 66 per cent of humanity lives in high income or high growth countries; up from 25 per cent...
H. V. Evatt & the UN after 60 years
by Michael Kirby | Aug 4, 2008
H. V. Evatt Lecture 200An Australian achieverI can boast of several links with Herbert Vere Evatt. Like me, he attended Fort Street Boys' High School in Sydney, the oldest public...
Jessie Street & human rights
by Elizabeth Evatt | Apr 17, 2008
Commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human RightsIt is an honour to be invited to this birthday party for Jessie. I did not know her personally, but her work in the United...
APEC: Australia’s biggest seat at its biggest table
by Paul Keating | Sep 9, 2007
Sitting down to a private dinner one night in Tokyo as a guest of my Treasury counterpart, the Japanese Minister of Finance, Kiichi Miyazawa, in a moment of candour, he asked me...
Human rights and reconciliation
by Elizabeth Evatt | Aug 9, 2007
Setting our hearts, minds and willsIntroductionI would like to acknowledge the Ngunnawal people, the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered. It is a privilege to...
A heartland of instability
by Marcia Langton | Aug 9, 2007
Dancing on our gravesI do not want to go back to the past. I am looking forward to the 40th anniversary of the referendum hosted by Reconciliation Australia. Jackie Huggins has...
Wanted: best practice federalism
by Glenn Withers., Anne Twomey | Apr 9, 2007
Within Australia, federalism has been under attack. The Commonwealth has been using its financial powers and increased legislative power to intervene in areas of State...
Hayek & market fundamentalism
by Andrew Gamble | Apr 9, 2007
Howard vs RuddNeo-liberalism became the ruling orthodoxy in many countries in the 1980s, reshaping policy agendas, and transforming all parties, social democratic, conservative...
Federalism, in the long run
by George Williams | Apr 9, 2007
It is widely acknowledged that Australia's federal system is broken. What we did not know is how much this is costing us. The price tag has now been estimated at $9 billion each...