by Ian Milliss | May 19, 2010 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
The Evatts, the arts, the websWhen I was initially approached about this lecture my first reaction was disbelief. It wasn’t just my natural false modesty, it was knowledge of a particular fact of life, that on the whole visual artists are no longer seen as...
by John Keane | Dec 20, 2009 | Issue 6, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
Thomas Paine’s vision of growing oldLadies and gentlemen, young and old and in-betweens,You may suppose, with good reason, that silver-haired university professors who lead cloistered lives are unsuitable candidates for speaking about the hardships of old age;...
by Yola Lucire | Dec 9, 2009 | Issue 5, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
There is an answer to fraud: You fight it with science. We have the science. Pharmacogentics.As you saw, Generation RX contained first hand accounts, ignored by authorities and psychiatrists, that some people became confused, hallucinated, homicidal and suicidal on...
by Matt Peacock | Nov 9, 2009 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
Right now, Australia’s in the grip of a silent epidemic. It’s an epidemic of the most painful and deadliest cancer you can imagine. It’s a thin, near-invisible, sheet-like cancer that can lurk in your body for ten, twenty, forty years or more, before...
by John Faulkner | Apr 8, 2009 | Issue 3, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
Open governmentFirst let me acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, and pay my respects to their elders past and present.Parliamentary colleagues, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, there was once a time when it was a serious offence to report what...
by Quentin Bryce | Apr 8, 2009 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
We are the ones we have been waiting forMinister for Community Services, the Honourable Linda Burney MP, Minister for the Status of Women, the Honourable Tanya Plibersek MP, Chair of the Jessie Street Trust, Ms Jeanette McHugh, original Chair, Ms Mavis Robertson, Ms...
