Politics
A dinner date with Billy Snedden
There was once a speaker of the Australian parliament who loved to travel overseas, and who especially enjoyed the sensual benefits that taxpayer-provided travel could deliver.
It was the end of the Haight-Ashbury rock ’n’ roll era in San Francisco. I was living there with my young family, on California and Laguna
“Democracy is in serious trouble …” So begins Tariq Ali in his confronting new book, The Extreme Centre, challenging citizens and governments to ensure freedom and equality across the world. Australia, Ali says, “specialises in battery-farming politicians of a provincial cast with impressive regularity …
The constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians requires meaningful consultation
Talk of stripping citizenship is just one example of Tony Abbott’s alarmist rhetoric
The 2015 budget has come and gone, but where is Joe Hockey's National Conversation?
In this La Trobe University Ideas and Society session at the Wheeler Centre, David Kilcullen, author of the Quarterly Essay ‘Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State’, and La Trobe University emeritus professor Robert Manne discuss the rise of ISIS and the threat it poses.
David Kilcullen was a senior adviser to
David Manne addresses the Thinking For Yourself Conference (arranged in honour of his uncle, Robert Manne) on the ethics of protecting the rights of those that seek shelter on our shores.
Presented by La Trobe University, Melbourne, March 2013