Keywords: Australian Election Study
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Doyle
- 18 September 2008
3 Comments
When I heard John McCain had chosen 'Palin' as his running mate, I thought, wow, Michael
Palin! Palin understands women (he's worn his share of dresses), animal rights (especially dead parrots), and commerce (particularly the cheese industry).
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 15 September 2008
10 Comments
Discussion prompted by the publication of Peter Costello's memoirs defines leadership narrowly as the ability to win elections. If the criteria were expanded to include moral fortitude, judgments about leadership would be very different.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2008
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 14 November 2007
3 Comments
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating famously described the Senate as 'unrepresentative swill'. It's not easy for Labor to rebut John Howard's claim that Labor's former union official representation in Parliament is 'out of whack'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 27 June 2007
3 Comments
A literary pilgrimage to rural lands near Wellington, NSW, while writing a book about Louisa Lawson. You never arrive: there is no pub, no post office, no CWA; no change in the benign parquetry of land ploughed, harvested, under crop, straggling with native scrub.
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AUSTRALIA
- Stefan Gigacz
- 02 April 2007
1 Comment
French Presidential candidate Francois Bayrou could emerge as favourite for the run off as socialists and conservatives seek to block their rivals from the Presidency. The 55 year old practising Catholic has managed to carve out political positions that respect Church teaching without necessarily alienating other groups.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ursula Stephens
- 23 December 2006
5 Comments
A NSW Labor Senator predicts that Kevin Rudd’s leadership of the ALP will be sophisticated and incisive in identifying the trigger points that will defeat the Howard government.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Browne
- 04 July 2006
A remarkably peaceful change of government in Kenya could significantly improve the lives of refugees in the country’s remote camps. But Australia and other western countries must play a part.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton, Godfrey Moase
- 04 July 2006
Reviews of Justice, Jesus, and the Jews; The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia; Don’t Tell the Prime Minister; Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War 1989–2001, and The Double Helix.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
- 01 July 2006
Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking
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