by Martin Kettl | Mar 11, 2003 | Papers
A master historian.Christopher Hill, who has died aged 91, was the commanding interpreter of 17th-century England, and of much else besides. As a public figure, he achieved his greatest fame as master of Balliol College, Oxford, a post he held from 1965 until 1978....
by Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew | Mar 3, 2003 | Papers
MediaDEVELOPMENTS in communications media are important in all the processes of globalisation. There are three dimensions to this. Firstly, media constitute the technologies and service delivery platforms through which international flows are transacted. Secondly, the...
by Immanuel Wallerstein | Mar 2, 2003 | Papers
Picture: Immanuel Wallerstein with Fernand BradelIf the attack on the Twin Towers on Sept 11, 2001 can be considered to have been a political earthquake for the American people, the US is now suffering from the aftershock. The most recent and most dramatic instance of...
by Chris Masters | Feb 21, 2003 | Papers
Who killed investigative journalism?There is nothing like a murder mystery to pull a good crowd. Thank you for your support. For what it is worth, it has long been clear to me that investigative journalism is a good crowd puller. There are many ways to measure the...
by John Spoehr | Feb 14, 2003 | Papers
Crisis & reformAfter nearly half a century under public ownership and control, the electricity industry in Australia is now subject to the influence of market principles and private interests. Over the last ten years most attempts to privatise electricity assets...
by John Quiggin | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Repudiating the pastAs with many others on the left of Australian politics, my first encounter with Keith Windschuttle came with his book Unemployment. The book presented a fairly standard left/Marxist account of the causes and effects of unemployment. Its most...
