by Fred Argy | Jun 26, 2003 | Papers
A Budget commentaryThe 2003/4 Budget should help to sustain our strong economic performance – but it does nothing to stop the erosion in Australian egalitarian values.Fiscal and monetary policy continues to be astutely managed. The slight stimulus provided by...
by Stuart Macintyre | Jun 26, 2003 | Papers
History, politics and the philosophy of historyIntroductionIn 1994 Keith Windschuttle published a strident polemic about The Killing of History. He suggested that the discipline and practice of history was suffering a potentially mortal attack from pernicious...
by Tim Dunlop | Jun 26, 2003 | Papers
Blogging & the new citizenshipThere’s an old joke where two kids are sitting in a room and one says to the other, “There’s an aphrodisiac behind that radiator.” And the other says, “What’s a radiator?” The valuable lesson...
by Michael Pusey | Jun 26, 2003 | Papers
The troubling experience of economic reformAnyone who turned forty with the new millennium will have spent all their adulthood living through what we so blithely call ‘economic reform’. Everyone knows what it is. Deregulation, privatisation, labour market...
by Frank Stilwell | Jun 26, 2003 | Papers
This year’s federal budget got a generally positive response from the media. ‘A tax cut for every Australian’ headlined the Sydney Morning Herald the following day, followed by ‘Surprise handout sweetens health and education overhaul’....
by Norman Madarasz | Jun 26, 2003 | Papers
Plato, Leo Strauss & Allan BloomLe Monde. In these days of cowardly journalism, it would be far too normal to let credit not lie where it is due.The fact remains that the most extensive study of the background to the neoconservative Project, their New American...
