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.
When the past Secretary General of Amnesty International, Irene Kahn, speaks she has an incredibly sweet, fluent, pleasant voice. But her sweet words come with a dynamic message. In her interview with Margaret Throsby yesterday she raised several profound questions for Australia. All in the most polite, round about and beautiful way.
John Faulkner was the Labor man who, all in the party, and all in the parliament, respected.
If you want to understand where Julia Gillard’s most strident critics are, come to Sydney. A word of advice to Tony Abbott disappear...
The press pack have passed judgement on Kevin. The bureaucrats so abused by the tyrant Rudd have let their views be known. It was inevitable that Julia Gillard would take over it seems. After all every Prime Minister, apart from Rudd, had been 'normal'. Kevin though, well he was off with the pixies, a one man dictator who’s only friends were God and a cat. By now you will have read the accumulated articles and even seen the circulating videos of Hitler in the bunker transposed with Ruddisms. Pardon me to take a different view. The problem was never Kevin. The problem is the modern Labor Party with its empty heart and gut.
The Federal parliamentary caucus of the ALP are under the spell of a UFO.
To make great economic advances for Aboriginal people means making those advances in the regions that Aboriginal people live. Unlike urbanized mainstream Australians, 2/3 of Aboriginal Australians live in regional and remote areas of the country. The current mining boom in Australia is an historic opportunity because the wealth is being generated in the heartlands of where Aboriginal people live around the country...
Or why the Australian people are turning against Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott but will not yet vote for the Greens and Democrats.
For a few years they have actually managed to banish all imagination from the world, all enthusiasm, extravagance, everything that makes life worth living. But now with our Nero (Kristina), all these things are back again. With Apologies to Lion Feuchwald, The False Nero, 1936
Ken Henry – King of Canberra – Head of Treasury, Canberra’s most powerful department – says the resources tax will be a winner for Aborigines. Well everything is all right. All is correct in the universe again. Jenny Macklin Minister for Indigenous Affairs says thanks Ken. There is nothing to worry about. We can all sleep peacefully in our beds, our consciences clear. Oh no! If ever there was an indication that this government and this bureaucracy just don’t understand the real problems besetting Aboriginal Australia then his statement that “some of the money raised from the proposed resources tax should be used for indigenous development” is it. What this really means is more of the same.
The Henry Tax Review, the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples and the Marginalisation of Aboriginal Political Interests
