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...
by Damian O'Connor | Mar 18, 2002 | Papers
The five biggest challenges facing the NSW ALP (and a few suggestions on how to solve them) The NSW ALP has some serious organisational challenges as it looks ahead. I don’t suggest that our failure to meet these challenges caused us to lose the 2001 federal...
by Margaret McDonough-Glenn | Mar 1, 2002 | Papers
From the words of Tom Uren about investment in our futureWhere is the younger Australian left? While the older members of the Australian labour movement’s left regularly speak out, their younger colleagues rarely contribute to the public policy and community...
by Paul Keating | Mar 1, 2002 | Papers
Political values in the Age of Distraction Members of the Clark family – Sebastian, Rowland, Anna and Alison. Jan Fullerton, the Director-General of the National Library – this great Australian institution. Harriet Elvin from the Cultural Facilities...
by Christopher Sheil | Mar 1, 2002 | Papers
Struggle Street & the Dole Army It was a great victory for struggle street. The Nine Network’s A Current Affair and the Seven Network’s Today Tonight programs featured competing stories exposing a group of dole bludgers who lived in Melbourne’s...
