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Author: John Button

  • ENVIRONMENT

    Greenhouse mafia's scorching approach to climate change

    • John Button
    • 09 January 2008

    No wonder people hope for arguments which suggest climate change will go away. The discussion about climate change has become increasingly feverish, polemical and downright dishonest. From 13 June 2007.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Greenhouse mafia's scorching approach to climate change

    • John Button
    • 13 June 2007
    11 Comments

    No wonder people hope for arguments which suggest climate change will go away. The discussion about climate change has become increasingly feverish, polemical and downright dishonest.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Family policy grapples with modern complexities

    • John Button
    • 16 April 2007
    4 Comments

    The social policies of the Australia's past worked reasonably well in protecting people from serious poverty. But now we require new policies providing a similar sense of security and contemporary relevance.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Getting to know Billy better

    • John Button
    • 14 May 2006

    John Button on Aneurin Hughes’s Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of  the Labor Party.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Roving ambassador

    • John Button
    • 10 May 2006

    John Button travels Twelve cities: A memoir with Roy Jenkins.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Yes, Minister

    • John Button
    • 08 May 2006

    John Button peruses the diaries of Harold Macmillan.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Split personalities

    • John Button
    • 25 April 2006

    John Button reviews The Great Labor Schism: A Retrospective, edited by Brian Costar, Peter Love and Paul Strangio.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Inside the Speagle tent

    • John Button
    • 24 April 2006

    John Button reviews Henry Speagle’s Editor’s Odyssey: A Reminiscence of Civil Service 1945–1985.

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