by Sharan Burrow | Aug 1, 2003 | Papers
Australians want a fair country backFairness, tolerance, ‘a fair go’ – these are the values Australia has always aspired to but they are now in contest. John Howard’s government has legitimated the right to challenge the very core of our...
by Simon Crean | Jun 26, 2003 | Papers
A new deal for Australia and Australian familiesTuesday’s budget should have improved life for Australian families. That’s the test any government budget should meet. Australian families are under growing pressure. They are working longer hours and paying...
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...
