by Tom Uren | Apr 23, 2002 | Papers
Our mission for this new milleniumIt was 87 years ago this Anzac Day that our gallant forces landed on Gallipoli. Although our Federation of States was created by becoming the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, many believe our European nation was born on the cliffs...
by Gavin Kitching | Apr 19, 2002 | Papers
When speaking about my book Seeking Social Justice Through Globalisation (Penn State Press, 2001), I always feel the need to begin by saying that it is not a book about Australia and globalisation, or about the impact of globalisation in Australia. But until I sat...
by Evatt Foundation | Apr 18, 2002 | Papers
Federal responsibilities for cities Mark Latham In the Australian newspaper last month, Christopher Lloyd, a Professor of Economic History at the University of New England, lodged the following letter to the editor: What happens when Mark Latham’s suburban...
by Michael Kirby | Apr 18, 2002 | Papers
Human rights & industrial relations Early days There are three reasons why, despite my natural reticence, I agreed to give this lecture, the tenth in the series to honour the memory of Associate Professor Kingsley Laffer. The first reason may not be widely known....
by Stuart Macintyre | Apr 18, 2002 | Papers
Higher education as a market Patterns of loss In the early 1970s I went to the United Kingdom to pursue postgraduate studies. My time at Cambridge was happier than that of Manning Clark at Oxford in the 1930s, but there was one source of minor irritation. The local...
by David Boyle | Apr 17, 2002 | Papers
“It may work fine in practice,” goes a joke that the French make at their own expense. “The trouble is, it just doesn’t work in theory.” So it is strange that Paris has become the birthplace of a revolt against the pre-eminence of theory...
