Keywords: Grounds For Hope
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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
A potentially unstable coalition government with few detailed policies and weak administrative ability is now certain to emerge following the fragmented result in the recent election. But grounds for hope remain.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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AUSTRALIA
- Robert Manne
- 18 June 2006
This is the full text of the speech prepared for the debate with Keith Windschuttle at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. It draws on some of the contributions found in Robert Manne’s (ed), Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History (Black Inc, 2003).
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 27 April 2006
Dad’s and Uncle George’s stories come back to me when I consider the upcoming series on SBS As It Happened: Germany’s War.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Corlett
- 20 April 2006
With the unlinking of the politics of asylum from the debate over national identity, Australia is now within reach of an opportunity to engage in much-needed policy reform.
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