however, is the economy cannot return to normal." (The Australian, Paul ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-09 11:24 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

still have a functioning government and an economy that's the envy of the Western world. ... come as no surprise. Nor will the compensatory cash payments to 'hard-working Australian ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-07 11:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Australian Economy, Finance, ECONOMICS, The Age) ... growth in the sagging economy. The dollar dived on the decision." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-01 15:14 - 0 comments

Well back in Economy, the two seats between me and the window were empty. The doors were about ... of brilliant colour as it died, the incomparable atmospherics of the Australian horizon at nightfall. I leant ... listened and tried to work out what that thing was. His singsong voice was partly Australian and partly ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

is not clear in this quiet place, and the extreme economy with electric light enhances the ambiguity. While I ... as I pulled on my shoes and we shot off to the base where an Australian helicopter was waiting to take ... and a German investigative journalist joined us, as well as the Australian pilot and crewman. I was jammed up ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

born or who your parents are. Across 17 OECD economies, Australians in the bottom 20% of income earners ... in advanced economies over the past three decades. This is a debate Australia too must be part of. We’ve ... the greatest Australian achievements of the last two centuries: a living wage, a welfare system, public health ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

to strike a chord “with stressed-out Aussie mums” in Melbourne’s Herald Sun . The Australian ’s ... happier doing almost anything other than childcare, even housework. Australian mummy blogs, websites ... and the wider economy. For an ‘heir’ of de Beauvoir, Badinter is surprisingly apolitical. Though she notes ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

(Australian Economy, Crikey) ... Australian Exceptionalism "We share ... that they and they alone are the global benchmark for all human achievement, we (Australians) simply refuse to acknowledge ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-09 14:35 - 0 comments

economy and population surge, Canberra faces diplomatic challenges in forging closer ties with New Delhi. ... of post-reform surging growth, which has seen its economy grow by around 8% per year, lifting it into the ten largest economies in the world. Its population is poised to become the world’s largest within ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

will not try to explain what we Australians mean by mateship, Mr President. It is far above my poor ... saw. These are the things that made us us. Possible applause from the Australians ... and self-indulgence, the good society by the security state, the civilian economy by the military–industrial complex. ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-02-23 14:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

into the country’s distorted and moribund economy, in which almost a quarter of the budget is diverted ... the history-steeped capital built by the British; instead, it combines the scant peri-urban charms of the Australian ... of the economy, a dollar buys 800 to 1100 – a yawning gap that was used by the military to mask ‘withdrawals’ from ...

The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Australian Greens Party ... The Australian Greens wield more power than ever, but face amplified divisions within the party – leadership ... the Australian Greens appear to be at the pinnacle of their success. It’s tempting to think it can only ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

of the Year”. If Rupert Murdoch, who recently turned eighty, is the most influential Australian of the post-war era, Julian Assange, who will soon turn forty, is undoubtedly the most consequential Australian ... was first discovered. The Australian Federal Police conducted a long investigation into the International ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Financial capitalism suffered a dreadful collapse in 2008 and the economies of the United States and Europe ... is upside down at the moment,” remarks Dr Robin Archer, an Australian political sociologist at the London ... tax on the wealthy. Without the support of the Australian Labor Party, the Greens cannot hope to win ...

The Monthly - Peter Hartcher - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

was saved from uni when his skill as a rower won him a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport. He ... dogged to make the Australian team.” That doggedness would serve him well when a chronic back injury ... in the Liberal Party to a powerful mentor, the right-wing faction leader and long-time South Australian senator, ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

to identify the most significant Australian work of art in their field since 2000. ... major show by two Sydney-based iconoclasts, initially had Australian Vogue decrying the absence ... The show, accompanied by the rousing voices of the Australian Youth Choir, melded influences from Erté’s ...

The Monthly - The Monthly - 2011-11-14 08:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the convention centre at 4 a.m., I’d been awake for forty-five hours. Many of the Australian team had been awake ... on the brakes.” The Australian businessman and environmental commentator Dick Smith goes further: “we are not so ... Change, ENVIRONMENT, Obama, Sustainability, United Nations, World economy) ...

The Monthly - Andrew Charlton - 2011-11-28 09:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Australia's economy and Labor's ownership of it "As constant as the health of the Australian economy has been criticism ... Lead item (Australian Economy, Australian Politics, Crikey) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-08 16:59 - 0 comments

Earlier this year, the Economist devoted its cover story and 16 pages to the Australian miracle. ... the next drought to giving every Australian child the backstop of an Asian second language. So, leader ... with Hawke and Howard are about authorship. With Hawke, it is over who owns the copyright for the Australian ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

upon will be the economy seat he designed for the new Qantas A380 (and which won the 2009 Australian ... Marc Newson - 'Qantas A380 Economy Seat', ... and terracotta to represent the Australian landscape. The ergonomics are particularly inviting for the long-haul ...

The Monthly - Alan Saunders - 2011-10-06 12:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

response from a journalist at the Australian to my Quarterly Essay ‘Bad News’. ... of the Australian’s handling of the climate change debate and its role in what is called in 'Bad News' ... in the Australian when Paul Kelly was editor. Between 1990 and 1997 I was the editor of Quadrant. Ironically ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-09-19 17:37 - 24 comments - 0 attachments

of crazy. The alternative reality crowd. Or I read the pronouncements of the Australian Greens, who would ... into “saline drains”. Åsa Wahlquist, the former rural correspondent for the Australian , began her book ... was my grandfather’s reward for serving in the Australian Light Horse Brigade in the Battle of Beersheba. ...

The Monthly - Kate Jennings - 2011-10-07 13:05 - 14 comments - 0 attachments

(Australian Economy, National Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-24 15:06 - 0 comments

It was up for an annual award for the most enduring architecture in Australian buildings from 25 years ago ... its new Australian mandate. From Port Moresby Sam went inland, tried a little prospecting and worked ... of the innovative Australian architect and the values of ancient Japanese design. Murcutt went to Japan in wary ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-10-06 12:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of emptying latrines to make fertiliser – and his personal ethos of work, economy and love, make compelling ... catastrophe of a totalitarian regime and by his deep concern for his version of Australian life, to which his ...

The Monthly - Brenda Walker - 2011-09-02 17:16 - 0 comments - 0 attachments