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...
by Michael Kirby | Aug 4, 2008 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
H. V. Evatt Lecture 200An Australian achieverI can boast of several links with Herbert Vere Evatt. Like me, he attended Fort Street Boys’ High School in Sydney, the oldest public school in Australia. That school has long provided special educational...
by Elizabeth Evatt | Apr 17, 2008 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 8
Commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human RightsIt is an honour to be invited to this birthday party for Jessie. I did not know her personally, but her work in the United Nations, which connected her closely with my uncle, Bert Evatt, forms the basis of these...
by Paul Keating | Sep 9, 2007 | Issue 3, Journal, Papers, Volume 7
Sitting down to a private dinner one night in Tokyo as a guest of my Treasury counterpart, the Japanese Minister of Finance, Kiichi Miyazawa, in a moment of candour, he asked me whether I thought ‘the Chinese would attack us’. Taken aback by the question,...
by Elizabeth Evatt | Aug 9, 2007 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 7
Setting our hearts, minds and willsIntroductionI would like to acknowledge the Ngunnawal people, the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered. It is a privilege to be invited to give this address on the topic of reconciliation, and in doing so to mark...
