The NSW ALP’s five biggest challenges
by Damian O'Connor | Mar 18, 2002
The five biggest challenges facing the NSW ALP (and a few suggestions on how to solve them) The NSW ALP has some serious organisational challenges as it looks ahead. I don't...
Tom Uren says let’s invest in our future
by Margaret McDonough-Glenn | Mar 1, 2002
From the words of Tom Uren about investment in our futureWhere is the younger Australian left? While the older members of the Australian labour movement's left regularly speak...
A time for reflection
by Paul Keating | Mar 1, 2002
Political values in the Age of Distraction Members of the Clark family - Sebastian, Rowland, Anna and Alison. Jan Fullerton, the Director-General of the National Library - this...
Tabloid TV meets the ghost of Ern Malley
by Christopher Sheil | Mar 1, 2002
Struggle Street & the Dole Army It was a great victory for struggle street. The Nine Network's A Current Affair and the Seven Network's Today Tonight programs featured...
Salting the earth
by Quentin Beresford | Mar 1, 2002
The environmental crisis of salinity in Australia The Prime Minister, John Howard, has set the goal of dealing with Australia's salinity problem as one of the top priorities on...
My better nature
by Peter Singer | Mar 1, 2002
Alone with Darwin Making it alone How selfish are human beings, really? It's a perennially fascinating question. In ancient Athens, if Plato is to be believed, Socrates debated...
Financing international development
by John Langmore | Mar 1, 2002
What is the forthcoming international conference about?In this paper, I want, firstly, to tell the story of the International Conference on Finance for Development to be held in...
“Temper democratic: Bias Australian”
by Stuart Macintyre | Feb 1, 2002
100 years of the Australian Labor PartyAn advanced democracy was expectedJust over a hundred years ago Joseph Furphy wrote to the editor of the Bulletin, to which he had been...
Relaxed & dumbing down
by Elizabeth Evatt | Feb 1, 2002
Australia's reputation in human rightsIf we truly wanted to stem the flow of asylum seekers, says Elizabeth Evatt in this article, should we not think globally? Should we not...
Patrick Troy looks into water’s future
by Christopher Sheil | Feb 1, 2002
Review article Patrick Troy looks deeply into the future of our water in the summer 2001-2002 issue of Dissent. He finds that the 'big engineering' approach to demand, which has...