New Labour & Thatcherism
by Stuart Hall | Aug 3, 2003
The Labour election victory in 1997 took place at a moment of great political opportunity. Thatcherism had been rejected by the electorate. But 18 years of Thatcherite rule had...
Monitorial cyber-citizens?
by Ken Parish | Aug 3, 2003
The new fire alarmsTim Dunlop's recent Evatt Foundation paper on Australian political weblogs (or 'blogs') draws heavily on the long tradition of the 'informed citizen' as an...
Fighting for Australian social democracy
by Doug Cameron | Aug 3, 2003
A social democratic or postmodern agenda?Thank you for the opportunity to speak on priorities for the Left in the lead up to National Conference of the Australian Labor Party. We...
Let’s get to it!
by Sharan Burrow | Aug 1, 2003
Australians want a fair country backFairness, tolerance, 'a fair go' - these are the values Australia has always aspired to but they are now in contest. John Howard's government...
What chance a fair and decent country?
by Simon Crean | Jun 26, 2003
A new deal for Australia and Australian familiesTuesday's budget should have improved life for Australian families. That's the test any government budget should meet. Australian...
Wanted: social healing
by Fred Argy | Jun 26, 2003
A Budget commentaryThe 2003/4 Budget should help to sustain our strong economic performance - but it does nothing to stop the erosion in Australian egalitarian values.Fiscal and...
On ‘fabricating’ history
by Stuart Macintyre | Jun 26, 2003
History, politics and the philosophy of historyIntroductionIn 1994 Keith Windschuttle published a strident polemic about The Killing of History. He suggested that the discipline...
If you build it they will come
by Tim Dunlop | Jun 26, 2003
Blogging & the new citizenshipThere's an old joke where two kids are sitting in a room and one says to the other, "There's an aphrodisiac behind that radiator." And the other...
Eating yourself
by Michael Pusey | Jun 26, 2003
The troubling experience of economic reformAnyone who turned forty with the new millennium will have spent all their adulthood living through what we so blithely call 'economic...
Budget … and fudge it
by Frank Stilwell | Jun 26, 2003
This year's federal budget got a generally positive response from the media. 'A tax cut for every Australian' headlined the Sydney Morning Herald the following day, followed by...