Why bother about economic inequality?
by Frank Stilwell | Sep 23, 2003
Fred Argy's book, Where to from here? Australian egalitarianism under threat, is a welcome publication, because economic inequality matters. Inequality has significant...
Ned Ludd, Adam Smith & Fred Argy
by Hugh Stretton | Sep 23, 2003
There's a library of recent books by us chatterers journalists and academics complaining about Australian inequalities. Here now is a rare stranger to the business: an expert,...
Achieving equality of opportunity
by Fred Argy | Sep 23, 2003
Where to from here?My new book focuses on three of the traditional pillars of economic egalitarianism in Australia:1. a strong, unconditional, need-based welfare safety net (to...
Whitewash
by Robert Manne | Aug 5, 2003
IntroductionIn 1968, the anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner delivered what turned out to be perhaps the most consequential lecture ever broadcast on the ABC. Stanner called his...
‘Many deeds of terror’
by Naomi Parry | Aug 5, 2003
Windschuttle & MusquitoKeith Windschuttle has presented The Fabrication of Aboriginal History as 'the most exhaustive study that's ever been done.' 1 Yet within its pages are...
Criminals & pimps
by Shayne Breen | Aug 5, 2003
Keith Windschuttle & Tasmanian AboriginesRecent comment on Keith Windschuttle's The fabrication of Aboriginal history concentrates on the book's claims that both Henry...
Understanding religious fundamentalism
by Randa Abdel-Fattah | Aug 3, 2003
Bringing out the worst A bomb goes off in the world: there are three choice labels: Islamic fundamentalist, Islamic terrorist, Islamic extremist. Handy and interchangeable labels...
The work/life collision
by Barbara Pocock | Aug 3, 2003
My new book is about the collision between work and care and its consequences for life in Australia. It is about the interactions between the spheres of work, gender relations,...
The ABC fades to black
by Tony Moore | Aug 3, 2003
Has John Howard won?So its come to this. Four Corners, one of the world's longest running television programs, is now under pressure from an ABC executive that is less cultural...
Speaking of media bias
by Evan Jones | Aug 3, 2003
Drip, drip, dripWhy was Australia in Iraq? Prime Minister John Howard joined the 'Coalition of the Willing' after George Dubya's phone call. There was no parliamentary debate or...