by Frank Stilwell | Jun 20, 2018 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
Two weeks after the federal government’s budget is a good time to take stock of how it has been received. A lot of economic wisdom and some sharp critique has been evident in various articles by economic journalists and on the letters pages. A number of themes...
by Ronald Janssen | May 20, 2018 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
An alternative economic narrative A picture can say more than a thousand words. This is certainly true for the set of graphs (see below) that the OECD published in its latest Economic Outlook, which show the rate of return on fixed assets—a proxy measure for the rate...
by David Stratton | May 18, 2018 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
I was extremely honoured to be invited to speak at the opening of this magnificent exhibition of the works and the collection of Mary Alice Evatt, or Mas as she was often known because she signed her own works that way, in the initials of her maiden name, Mary Alice...
by Bill Shorten | May 10, 2018 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
The Opposition Leader’s speech in reply to the 2018 Budget My fellow Australians, as I listened to the government’s fifth budget on Tuesday night, I knew immediately we can do better than this, the people of Australia deserve better than this and a Labor...
by Wayne Swan | May 4, 2018 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
I’m going to start by breaking a rule of progressive politics devised for us by George Lakoff a decade and more ago, when he said ‘Don’t think of an elephant’. You might remember, Lakoff’s argument was that progressives were like participants in a...
by Jenny Donovan | May 4, 2018 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
‘We shape our cities, and afterwards our cities shape us’, to paraphrase Winston Churchill. In this he eloquently drew a line between the built characteristics of our surroundings and the social outcomes they point towards. Winston would no doubt feel vindicated...
