by Hugh Stretton | Sep 23, 2003 | Papers
There’s a library of recent books by us chatterers journalists and academics complaining about Australian inequalities. Here now is a rare stranger to the business: an expert, experienced, distinguished public service leader who explores the practical...
by Fred Argy | Sep 23, 2003 | Papers
Where to from here?My new book focuses on three of the traditional pillars of economic egalitarianism in Australia:1. a strong, unconditional, need-based welfare safety net (to minimise the risk of poverty),2. a broad sharing of national productivity gains (through a...
by Robert Manne | Aug 5, 2003 | Papers
IntroductionIn 1968, the anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner delivered what turned out to be perhaps the most consequential lecture ever broadcast on the ABC. Stanner called his lecture ‘The Great Australian Silence’. The point he was making has often been...
by Naomi Parry | Aug 5, 2003 | Papers
Windschuttle & MusquitoKeith Windschuttle has presented The Fabrication of Aboriginal History as ‘the most exhaustive study that’s ever been done.’ 1 Yet within its pages are many examples of errors and misrepresentations that cast doubt on his...
by Shayne Breen | Aug 5, 2003 | Papers
Keith Windschuttle & Tasmanian AboriginesRecent comment on Keith Windschuttle’s The fabrication of Aboriginal history concentrates on the book’s claims that both Henry Reynolds and Lyndall Ryan deliberately fabricated stories of frontier conflict,...
by Randa Abdel-Fattah | Aug 3, 2003 | Papers
Bringing out the worst A bomb goes off in the world: there are three choice labels: Islamic fundamentalist, Islamic terrorist, Islamic extremist. Handy and interchangeable labels which the media and our politicians relish using. Let’s take the term Islamic...
