by Peter Singer | Mar 1, 2002 | Papers
Alone with Darwin Making it alone How selfish are human beings, really? It’s a perennially fascinating question. In ancient Athens, if Plato is to be believed, Socrates debated it with Glaucon, who maintained that if only we could get away with it, we would all...
by John Langmore | Mar 1, 2002 | Papers
What is the forthcoming international conference about?In this paper, I want, firstly, to tell the story of the International Conference on Finance for Development to be held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002, including some remarks on the reasons for its...
by Stuart Macintyre | Feb 1, 2002 | Papers
100 years of the Australian Labor PartyAn advanced democracy was expectedJust over a hundred years ago Joseph Furphy wrote to the editor of the Bulletin, to which he had been contributing short pieces over the previous decade, with news of something much longer, a...
by Elizabeth Evatt | Feb 1, 2002 | Papers
Australia’s reputation in human rightsIf we truly wanted to stem the flow of asylum seekers, says Elizabeth Evatt in this article, should we not think globally? Should we not think about what Australia could do to prevent human rights abuses in the countries of...
by Christopher Sheil | Feb 1, 2002 | Papers
Review article Patrick Troy looks deeply into the future of our water in the summer 2001-2002 issue of Dissent. He finds that the ‘big engineering’ approach to demand, which has come down to us with few embellishments from the 19th century, is now in...
by Deborah Mitchell | Feb 1, 2002 | Papers
Welfare”Globalisation … is creating deep social pain and political costs as sensitive sectors are opened up to outside competition and go through difficult adjustments. The human costs are hurtful and governments have a responsibility to help people through the...
