by Bill Shorten | Sep 27, 2017 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
The theme that you’ve chosen for this gathering is ‘an uncertain world’. We live in an uncertain world. We live in uncertain times—yes we do, we most certainly do. But to varying degrees, we always have. I suppose that if you were a young Australian in the...
by Bill Shorten | Jul 21, 2017 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
Today Labor is announcing new plans to improve our tax system so that it is fair for all Australians. A Shorten Labor government will introduce a standard minimum 30 per cent tax rate for discretionary trust distributions to mature beneficiaries (people over the age...
by Daniel T. Rodgers | Jul 17, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
Are we on the brink of a new constellation of social ideas and imagination? Daniel T. Rodgers discusses his award-winning Age of Fracture with Christopher Sheil. Age of Fracture: the book CS: Age of Fracture is an unusual title in having no article or subtitle. The...
by Michael Vaughan, Frank Stilwell | Jul 17, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
In 2013, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said of Labor’s mining tax: ‘What an extraordinary exercise in ineptitude: the first tax in the history of the Commonwealth that actually does not raise any money.’ If the success of a tax is measured by the revenue it raises,...
by Frank Bongiorno | Jul 17, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
Australia and the global eighties It is a mark of the limiting character of a purely national perspective that it has been so rarely noticed that two English-speaking democracies of the 1980s each had a former trade union official as its national leader. Bob...
by Michelle Arrow | Jul 17, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
Thank you to David and Alison for inviting me to launch their provocative, combative and myth-busting Honest History Book. It’s a punchy collection of essays by some of our very best historians. This book busts myths and bursts bubbles. It is a history book for our...
