Capitalism
- Henry Flags Australia As Financial 'Safe Haven'
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'will be seen as offering safe haven for global capital movements'." ...
PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-16 11:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The New Republican
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Preparing for Another Tilt at the Crown Christopher Kremmer On a Monday evening in Canberra, weary, suited bureaucrats are making their journeys home along pavements strewn with autumnal leaf litter. The capital turns 100 next ...
The Monthly - Christopher Kremmer - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Taliban launches largest attack on Kabul in 11 years
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Taliban launches largest attack on Kabul in 11 years " Dozens of fighters launched gun, rocket and suicide attacks on embassies, Nato bases, parliament and government buildings in the capital, in what a spokesman called a 'spring offensive' ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-16 15:07 - 0 comments
- What do North Korea's monuments tell us about the totalitarian state?
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of the country's capital, Pyongyang. " ( ALSO: image gallery ) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-05 14:50 - 0 comments
- Once Were Warriors
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He went on: The men who organised ‘labour against capital’ will have their names handed down with honour amongst the working classes; but the unfortunate individual … “organising capital ... of the Labour Party in Australia … an antagonism between the two great forces [capital and labour] that ought ...
The Monthly - Nick Dyrenfurth - 2012-05-08 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Rockin’ Rupert
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in capitals. Given the commercial opportunism that prompted his change of nationality, it’s Murdoch’s ...
The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-04-05 16:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Mali coup: soldiers loot presidential palace after seizing power
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Mali coup: soldiers seize power "Gunfire rang out in Mali's capital as drunken soldiers looted the presidential palace after seizing power in a coup. The group appeared on Malian state television shortly after storming the presidential ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-23 13:47 - 0 comments
- The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia
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the top 0.1% net over half of all capital gains in the US. Even as this group’s share of the pie has ... that the champion of the free market, the Financial Times , recently took up the debate in its ‘Capitalism in Crisis’ series, editorialising that “public confidence in shareholder capitalism can only be restored ...
The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments
- The Reluctant Son
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Corp: the work that goes on at business unit level, raising capital, satisfying shareholders ... at Melbourne’s exclusive Capital Golf Club. In 2010 the minister copped flak for going skiing with Kerry Stokes ...
The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Battle rages near Damascus
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Battle rages near Damascus " The embattled Syrian regime moved thousands of its troops and tanks into suburbs on the edge of Damascus early yesterday in an effort to reclaim outlying districts from rebels, as fierce battles neared the capital ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-01-30 14:21 - 0 comments
- Fred Schepisi & Vladimir Putin
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of the capital. Behind its 4-metre wall, Schepisi found himself in a forest of birches and pines, its carpet-like ...
The Monthly - Shane Maloney - 2012-02-08 15:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Bride Wore Black
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his first 22 years in the ancient capital. Yet Akira’s engagement with the traditional arts of his ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-02-07 16:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- In the Picture
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of the Lady perched behind him on a shelf. “They need Aung San Suu Kyi.” * Burma’s new capital city ... the history-steeped capital built by the British; instead, it combines the scant peri-urban charms of the Australian Capital Territory with the latest in Asian business amenities: golf courses, gem emporia, luxury hotels. ...
The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- So Who the Bloody Hell Are You?
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in Canberra and consolidated his position in Cook. He has become a creature of the capital’s ...
The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Angry Boys
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that claims to be the corn capital of the world. It sits opposite a gas station on a road leading through ...
The Monthly - Julia Baird - 2012-02-07 16:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died
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Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died " In a 'special broadcast' from the capital, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on a train due to a 'great mental and physical strain' on Dec. ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-19 14:21 - 0 comments
- Truck bomb kills dozens in Somalia's capital
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Truck bomb kills dozens in Somalia's capital "Floods of wounded people stumbled into this city’s dilapidated hospitals, which were already full of victims of the country's widening famine. Somalia has lurched from crisis to crisis ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-05 13:50 - 0 comments
- The Second Rudd Government?
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schools; and for increases of income or capital gains taxes for the members of Australian society’s ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-01-23 05:06 - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
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libertarians, who supported laissez-faire capitalism. The most authoritative political voice among the majority ... for the anarcho-capitalism of the cypherpunks mainstream which, as he explained to me, he regarded as “naive” about “the ... expressed “surprise” when a “critique of laissez-faire capitalism” appeared on the cypherpunks list “of all ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Twilight in Damascus
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Twilight in Damascus "The protest chant against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad would be nothing out of the ordinary in Homs, but to hear it from children's mouths in the heart of the capital shows how far the revolution has spread." ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-08 14:10 - 0 comments
- How can climate change denialism be explained?
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that flourishes under the conditions of consumer capitalism that presents the primary obstacle to taking action ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-12-12 10:46 - 31 comments - 0 attachments
- Left Behind: Why the Right Keeps Winning
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Financial capitalism suffered a dreadful collapse in 2008 and the economies of the United States and Europe ... of capitalism are disproportionately cascading towards a smaller and smaller section of the community – of which ... capitalism in the US, UK and Europe: lost jobs, lost houses, lost pension entitlements, lost government ...
The Monthly - Peter Hartcher - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Bush Love
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is known as Australia’s peanut capital. “Backfatters”, I discover, refers to the sows from the many local ...
The Monthly - Benjamin Law - 2011-07-12 14:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Gendercide
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marriages. Aysan Sev’er from the University of Toronto argues that under consumer capitalism dowries have ...
The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2010-06-10 14:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- CanDo? Campbell Newman’s Bid for Queensland
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to close a chink in his legacy by completing some major infrastructure projects in the state capital ...
The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
