by Melissa Boyde | Apr 8, 2009 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
Mary Alice Evatt & Australian modernist artIn his autobiography art historian Bernard Smith recounts how, as a young art teacher posted to a school at Murraguldrie in country New South Wales (NSW) in the mid 1930s, he tried unsuccessfully to borrow books on modern...
by Pete Hay | Mar 8, 2009 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
And why they are not in placeThe British Scientist, James Lovelock – described by New Scientist as ‘one of the great thinkers of our times’, tells us that, by the close of the century, the current population of Planet Earth will have been reduced by...
by Christopher Sheil | Nov 11, 2008 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 8
Reflections on the 60th Anniversary Introduction I should begin by making the basis of my words clear. The Evatt Foundation was founded in 1979 as a memorial to Dr Herbert Vere Evatt, or ‘the Doc’ as he was universally known, with the aim of upholding the...
by Phillip O'Neill | Nov 11, 2008 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 8
Herbert Vere (‘Doc’) Evatt was born in East Maitland in 1894. He is probably the Hunter region’s most famous politician, perhaps the region’s most important international figure of all time. Sixty years ago, on 10 December 1948, in Paris, Doc...
by Evan Jones | Oct 10, 2008 | Issue 3, Journal, Papers, Volume 8
Where is competition when we need it?The government should reject Westpac’s bid to takeover St George, argues Evan Jones.Last February, Gail Kelly, long-time chief executive of St George Bank, became chief executive of Westpac. In May, Westpac launched a...
by Paul Keating | Aug 9, 2008 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 8
War, peace & prosperityA prestigious American think tank told us recently that 66 per cent of humanity lives in high income or high growth countries; up from 25 per cent thirty years ago. A very powerful statistic. Since 1982, the world has experienced a...
