How to stop America
by George Monbiot | Sep 29, 2003
Presidents Roosevelt and Truman were smart operators. They knew that the hegemony of the United States could not be sustained without the active compliance of other nations. So...
Carers of Australia unite!
by Barbara Pocock | Sep 29, 2003
Many Australians are living and working, at present, in an uncomfortable moment. It is a moment of dissonance, when our behaviour has moved way ahead of our institutions and...
A tribute to Jim Cairns
by Tom Uren | Sep 29, 2003
You have left us with a spirit in our heartJim Cairns passed away on Sunday 12th October, eight days after he turned 89 years old. He was a great Australian - his life and...
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...