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- APEC
Australian foreign policy can make a difference, argues Paul Keating, but you have to dare to try.
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June 2002
- Refugees
The so-called refugee problem facing Australia is not a problem of national security; it is not a political or legal problem: it is overwhelmingly a moral problem.
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May 2002
April 2002
- No more islands
In delivering the annual Kingsley Laffer lecture, Michael Kirby considers Australia's arbitration system, the ILO, racial and other forms of discrimination, and human rights in the ever changing context of globalisation.
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- ‘Funny you should ask for that’
Stuart Macintyre surveys the declines in the disciplines of the sciences, social sciences and humanities, and proposes some practical steps to sustain the academic activities that constitute the university.
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March 2002
- Tabloid TV meets the ghost of Ern Malley
Christopher Sheil places the Dole Army in a historical context.
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- A time for reflection
Paul Keating on Manning Clark, globalisation, reactionary Australia, the attack on Australia's institutions, relations with the US, and the need for contemplation and introspection in the Age of Distraction.
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- My better nature
Orthodox contemporary economics is based on the assumption that people always behave self-interestedly. Drawing on his Left Darwinism, Peter Singer observes that in reality "we are often moved by motives other than self-interest", and he explains why "there is nothing in evolutionary psychology that would lead us to expect otherwise".
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- Salting the earth
The Prime Minister has made dealing with Australia’s salinity problem one of the top priorities on his government’s third term agenda. For those of us concerned about Australia’s landscape and its human and ecological communities, the elevation of salinity is welcome, says Quentin Beresford, but the government's commitment is inadequate
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February 2002
- Financing international development
From the devastation of Afghanistan, through to the financial crisis that has beset Argentina; from the reality that over half of humanity lives on less than $2 a day, through to the experience of increasing global interdependence: financing international development is a crucial issue. In this paper, John Langmore details the significance of the first International Conference on Financing Development to be held in Mexico this March.
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January 2002
- Relaxed & dumbing down
If 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 origin and how we could do more to ensure basic standards of living in those countries? If we were to do that, we might understand that the world needs to work towards an effective and meaningful international system of human rights and that this must be necessarily linked to a fair and equitable global economic and financial system.
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- "Temper democratic: Bias Australian"
In the inaugural overland lecture at the Melbourne Trades Hall, Stuart Macintyre finds a Labor Party that needs less surrender to binding orthodoxy, more improvisation and, sorely, a democratic temper.
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- Patrick Troy looks into water's future
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 serious trouble on all fronts.
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December 2001
- The boundaryless cluster
Over the past decade, Ireland has experienced the fastest growth rate of output and employment of any country in the OECD, with annual average growth rates of 8 per cent and the number of jobs across the economy increasing by nearly 50 per cent between 1990 and 2000. In this paper, Roy Green and his colleagues find that the evolution of Ireland's information and communications technology sector has been driven not only by market forces, but also by the conscious design and implementation of public policy in the context of EU framework and cohesion programmes and, over the last decade, social partnership.
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November 2001
- States of mind: Australia & New Zealand
Stuart Macintyre on federation and the centenary of federation in Australia and New Zealand, and unfinished business. Meanwhile, Phil Somerville finds he's moderately fond of Australia.
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- The shrinking society
Now that the moral majority is in power, observes Ghassan Hage, it has been shown to be clearly less moral than it initially claimed and, instead, we have a moral minority in opposition. It argues that, under John Howard, ethics and morality have been thrown out the window.
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- Globalisation and democracy
This is the transcript of the lecture John Ralston Saul delivered in the Clancy Auditorium at the University of New South Wales in Sydney in January 1999, co-sponsored by the Evatt Foundation and broadcast on ABC TV.
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