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Whitlam's Economic (Inter)Nationalism
By his own admission, Australian Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was not much of an economist. In a speech during what proved to be his final months in office, Whitlam admitted he came to government assuming post-war growth would continue to provide the fiscal basis for his enormous reform agenda. The global stagflation crisis — in Australia, inflation rose by 16.3 per cent and unemployment 5 per cent between 1972 and 1975 — demolished such assumptions.
Hydrogen as an energy source
This paper gives a brief overview of hydrogen, how and where it will be produced in Australia, and the main challenges.
Capitalism in Australia: New histories for a reimagined future
Altman, JC (2001) Sustainable development options on Aboriginal land: The hybrid economy in the twenty-first century. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Available at: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/40104/2/2001_DP226.pdf (accessed 30 July 2020). Google Scholar Arnason, J (2001) Capitalism in context: Sources, trajectories and alternatives. Thesis Eleven 66: 99–125. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals Bauman, Z (2002) The 20th century: The end of the beginning.
Open Page with Margaret Simons
Open Page Reviewed by Australian Book Review • Open Page Reviewed by Australian Book Review • Where are you happiest? In my tiny inner-suburban backyard garden, mooching around with compost and growing things. At dinner with my family. Or with my feet up and a good book in my favourite chair in the living room. What’s your idea of hell? Childhood sporting humiliations have left me with a dread of being in places where somebody might throw a ball towards me and expect me to do something with it.
Mandatory Murder: A true history of homicide and injustice in an outback town
True Crime Reviewed by Russell Marks • Mandatory Murder: A true history of homicide and injustice in an outback town by Steven Schubert ABC Books, $32.99 pb, 306 pp, 9780733339394 True Crime Reviewed by Russell Marks • ABC journalist Steven Schubert’s first book, Mandatory Murder, could have been a definitive account of the bizarre sentencing of Zak Grieve for the murder of fellow Katherine resident Ray Niceforo in October 2011.
Ben Huf reviews 'Banking Bad' by Adele Ferguson, 'It’s Your Money' by Alan Kohler, 'The People vs The Banks' by Michael Roddan, and 'A Wunch of Bankers' by Daniel Ziffer
Finance Finance Bank bashing is an old sport in Australia, older than Federation. In 1910, when Labor became the first party to form a majority government in the new Commonwealth Parliament, they took the Money Power – banks, insurers, financiers – as their arch nemesis.
Mandatory Murder: A true history of homicide and injustice in an outback town
True Crime Reviewed by Russell Marks • Mandatory Murder: A true history of homicide and injustice in an outback town by Steven Schubert ABC Books, $32.99 pb, 306 pp, 9780733339394 True Crime Reviewed by Russell Marks • ABC journalist Steven Schubert’s first book, Mandatory Murder, could have been a definitive account of the bizarre sentencing of Zak Grieve for the murder of fellow Katherine resident Ray Niceforo in October 2011.
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