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...
by Georgina Murray, David Peetz | Jul 2, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
When people say share ownership is highly diversified, they think most large public corporations have lots of shareholders and often the largest shareholder has less than 15 per cent, sometimes less than 5 per cent, of the total shareholdings. But looking at it this...
by Sally McManus | Apr 4, 2017 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
Good afternoon, it’s a pleasure to be with you today. I want to pay my respects to the Ngunnawal people and their elders past and present. I would also like to acknowledge the members of the Australian Services Union who here today as well as some of my dear friends,...
by Ramesh Thakur | Apr 4, 2017 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
We may be at an inflection point in global affairs with the world in disarray with a volatile, erratic and unpredictable administration in Washington, imminent British and possibly French exits from the European Union, presidential instability in South Korea and the...
by Daniel T. Rodgers | Feb 23, 2017 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
‘Post-truth’ carries a catchy, advertising-agency ring. And that may be exactly what is wrong with it and with our times. We do not live in an era stripped of truths. We live, to the contrary, in a political-cultural moment saturated with competing claims on truth,...
by Tim Ayres | Feb 23, 2017 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
I want to start in Abermain. It’s a town of about 2 500 people in the Hunter Valley, about 8 kilometres from Cessnock. It started as a coal-mining community in the early 20th century, and slowly became a commuter town for blue-collar workers in the Hunter...
