Working Papers
The working papers collection comprises historical papers as well as current ideas and works in progress on some of the major issues and topics of our times.
Karma
(released 22 April 2025)
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In a world in which Doechii’s "Anxiety" is on JJJs high rotation list, where Trump/Vance, Putin. Xi, Netanyahu and right wing populism threaten to wreck the world as we know it, Peter Dutton and David Littleproud are unelectable.
Australian Frankenstein: Alexander Berry, Mary Shelley and Arawarra
(released 30 March 2025)
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Each historical era throws up its heroes and villains. Certainly Alexander Berry is a fallen angel moving from hero and rescuer of the survivors of the Boyd, innovative pioneer and trader to ruthless patriarch to Australian Frankenstein/grave robber and vicious environmental vandal.
Riding the Bevel
(released 13 March 2025)
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Jeffrey Sachs and I were in Moscow in 1990. Sachs recent full blown speech to the European Parliament caused me to reflect on that time, the opportunities lost and the lingering tragedy and unprincipled opportunism that often underlies foreign policy.
"Jerry Bailey"
(released 20 February 2025)
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The etymology of "Jerry Bailey"/Shoalhaven Heads and the Tragedy of Thom Davidson
Farm
(released 3 February 2025)
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All things being equal it takes a long time, perhaps one hundred years to sustain a half decent farm. Money won’t buy it. Technology will not create it. You need three generations with a disciplined, unbroken vision. Every step of the way is fragile and the whole enterprise may come tumbling down at any point. Without enlightenment it can be an impossible, soul destroying enterprise.
Fear and Intuition
(released 22 January 2025)
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Age, time and scholarship bring the ability to appreciate and comprehend strange confluences.
Time
(released 6 January 2025)
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Old people will often say that, beyond their aches and pains, they still feel the same as they were when they were young. Time is a trickster.
Kia - Brief Etymology of A NSW South Coast Aboriginal Word
(released 10 December 2024)
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Many Aboriginal people have names beginning with the root "kia", names such as Kiami, Kiama, Kiara or Kiana. The name is derived from an auspicious Aboriginal word referring to the heavens, mountains and the spirit of Biame on the South Coast of NSW and beyond.
The logging orgy before we were born
(released 21 November 2024)
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The lost South Coast forests..